Would you be more afraid to meet a bear in the forest late at night, or a woman?

  • borf@lemmynsfw.com
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    20 days ago

    Depends on the bear and the woman. If I’m choosing between a gorged, sleepy, elderly bear and my bloodlusted ex with a gun, then definitely the bear. If it’s a random 20 year old woman vs. a starving, pissed-off grizzly, gimme the coed.

      • Zorque@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        Do we get the context of ursine or big hairy gay guy or are we going in blind with that too?

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
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          20 days ago

          Blind. It’s always blind.

          I don’t remember who it was, but some historian once said you could estimate how good and fair a time period is by imagining that you are going to be born at random into it. You don’t get to choose your parents, and statistics are the factor - this isn’t a monkey’s paw wish, it’s a random number generator.

          In this case, if you pick “bear,” you’re going to get a random bear from all the bears in the world. If you’re a man, you get a random one of the 4 billion(ish) adult women on the planet. Of you’re a woman, you get a random man.

          It could be a Giant Panda; it could be a Polar Bear. Statistically, probably some sort of black bear; but it’s random.

          Odds are you’re going to get an Asian person: Indian, Chinese, whatever. But you could also get some big, aggressive person magically yanked out of solitary: random.

    • mwproductions@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Would you be more afraid to meet a bear in the forest late at night, or a woman?

      If I’m choosing between a gorged, sleepy, elderly bear and my bloodlusted ex with a gun, then definitely the bear.

      NGL, it took me a moment to realize you were saying you would rather come across the bear in this situation, not that you would be more afraid of the bear.