Man or bear?

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Noticed this question blowing up on social media recently:

Alone in the woods at night, would you encounter a completely randomly selected man or a bear

The majority of females surveyed responded a bear.

I had a look around various forums and such as well as asking a few female friends this myself and was surprised that was their answer too - to me this is a bit of a shock of just how badly men appear to be perceived by females - perhaps I’m out of touch or something ! (Unless people just aren’t scared of bears at all!)

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Stick Legs said:

Each generation has it’s own challenges, and one of the things I find is that underage drinking is much less of a thing.

it's interesting I think, I made friends with an 18yr old couple started coming in regularly to a bar I drink in and they gave a lot of insight into how different things are at school now (concidentially went to the same high school as I did years ago) and said that drugs were fairly common and it wasn't unusual for people to be doing ecstacy/ket in school (which blew my mind!) but alcohol was generally less popular

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2xChevrons said:

Using 'female' to refer to a particular woman ("what was the female doing in the woods at night anyway?") and - especially - 'females' to refer to women in general )("The majority of females surveyed responded 'a bear'.") comes across as dehumanising. Like you're narrating a nature documentary or writing up an anthropological study. Or, in some contexts, it comes across as like something from a serial killer's manifesto.

for what it's worth I wrote "females" in my inital post as I thought it was apt as the surveys/threads/tiktok stuff had a huge range of ages (esp tiktok being particularly young girls) and didn't meant it to be dehumanising