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manbearpig (quokk.au)
submitted 7 months ago by [M] to c/peoplemastodon@quokk.au
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[–] 88 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It's also wild to me that I've been told multiple times by experienced outdoorsmen that the most dangerous animal you can encounter in the woods is another human, but that's entirely forgotten as soon as the culture war revs up.

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  • [–] 41 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    yup. all kinds of people in this thread equating "encountering a bear" to "being mauled by a bear"

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Well of course, being that the other side of it is equating "meeting a man" to "being raped or murdered by a man."

    In reality, 99.99% of the time in both cases absolutely nothing will happen, but that doesn't stir up fear and anger so it's less fun to acknowledge that.

    You know how many bears I've seen in the woods in all my days out there? 4. Know how many men I've seen? Me neither, lost count somewhere in the hundreds (ok I never counted because it's such a common and trivial thing). In all those times, the bears kept eating from the dumpster and the men politely nod and keep walking. Ironically the bears eating from dumpsters are the more likely ones to kill people, and strangers are the least likely people to kill people (usually someone you already know), but still, nothing happened.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I am sure bear will attack more times and succed in killing than man will try to rape and succeed

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago*

    I mean, I don't even need to google the statistics to tell you how outright stupid of a claim you have made here. Go and google for yourself, the stats on bear attacks vs human attacks.

    Like even if you just think about it for longer than 6 seconds you have to realize that obviously what you said cannot be even close to true and that you have to be a fucking idiot to think otherwise.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Yeah, a bear lives in the fucking woods. That's his house, and presumably if you're not fucking with the bear, the bear most likely won't fuck with you.

    But another person? With unclear intentions for being in the woods? Not everyone is out to get you, but it's a higher risk than a damn bear. Especially if you're a woman, by yourself

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