i know it’s internet bullshit but it genuinely has me on the edge of breaking down and giving up

That’s because that’s not what this conversation is about. It started on TikTok bc someone made a video and as an offhand example said women would rather be in the woods with a bear than a random man. Cue the men mansplaining why a man would be safer and obtusely refusing to listen to why. Lots of women and men on TikTok have responded and said that in the middle of the woods they would rather run into an unknown bear (an animal in its natural habitat) than an unknown man, running into the bear is still the better option.

Because you’re right, bears can and will kill you in a horrific manner if they are hungry or sick. But depending on the type and what tools you have, you can definitely convince it you’re not worth the fight. There are logical methods to use even if they won’t work if the bear is very determined or heaven forbid, a polar bear. Also if you’re in the woods, you are in the bear’s back yard. You know why it’s there. The worst thing a bear can do is kill you, even if you’re half alive for the entirety of it. Death is not the worst thing that can happen to a human being.

The thing is no one will question you if you say you were attacked by a bear, no one will ask you why you were attacked by the bear and what did you do to deserve it. Some dude even chimed in the convo saying it’s insensitive by saying his mom was attacked by a bear and wrote a book about it so obviously the bear is worse…completely missing the point his own mother made. Which is ironic bc the whole thing started as a convo about how men act during rejection can escalate to violence and all the alpha make wackos responding only further prove the point that some men can’t take no, even in an imagined scenario against a bear.