That last one happened to my best friend when she was 15, in combination with "friends" bit.
In high school she had 2 guy "friends". Probably the closest supposed friends she had at the time.
One night they were all at a party. When she wasn't looking her "friends" roofied her. She was gangraped by those 2 "friends" and others. It was filmed and shared among the students at her high school.
None of her rapists were ever punished, despite there being literal video footage of it.
Have you considered that those young men might have had very promising futures ahead of them, perhaps even professional swimming careers? We wouldn’t want to ruin their whole lives over a silly mistake now, would we?
My father & stepmom used to get black bears going after their beehives at the edge of their property (they lived in the woods back then) and just kept an old frying pan and wooden spoon by the back door. Lean outside and bang it a couple times and the bears would take off running.
I actually feel safer in the woods by myself (no men!), luckily I've never had a problem. I've gotten to hang out watching black bears play a few times too & that's one of the best experiences. (and we respected each others space. it's soooo easy!)
Lol i recently started listening to people’s woods “horror” stories (tbf they’re mostly “oh no someone was being weird in the woods not bothering anyone”)
I’m determined to now be someone’s scary story because of course I’m weird in the woods - where else should people go to be weird without others judging them???
But yeah i have no idea how my city kid ass was just comfortable walking out into the woods lol
There is a female grizzly who raises her cubs with in sight of a highway somewhere north of Yellowstone. Male bears are even more frightened of human contact than female bears, so she puts up with her nervousness about the people that stop along the highway to photograph her in order to keep her cubs safe.
Crazy thing is, most men will pick the bear if asked. I found a few videos actually asking them and out of like a dozen guys, almost all of them picked the bear as well.
The two guys who didn't were then asked, "What if it was your wife/daughter/girlfriend?" Both guys immediately changed their answers and picked the bear.
Would rather die at the hands of a bear than a man. Would rather have a near miss with a bear than a man. Would rather have 100% peaceful encounter with a bear than a man.
Odds are, if a bear is attacking me, it’s because it’s a female bear, I got too close to her cubs without realizing it, and mother bears are really, REALLY protective.
(Literally, that’s like one of the biggest reasons behind actual bear attacks)
(Edit to say: my point is, there’s a very good chance that the bear is just as justified in going aggro as I am in choosing the bear over the man. Female bears only immediately choose violence because the male bears get all infanticidal if they think they have a chance of getting her pregnant with his cubs instead.)
(Second edit: I am NOT saying that senseless violence is inherent to all males regardless of species. I AM saying it’s still far too commonplace, and I honestly wouldn’t blame the bear knowing that. A girl’s gotta do what she’s gotta do, even when that girl weighs 150 kilos, is covered in fur, and lives in the woods)
The bear won't leave a fucking birthday card with no stamp or return address in my mailbox on my 25th birthday, after I was taken away from him at age 5.
The bear won't stalk me on Facebook.
The bear won't plead "no contest", but still get to live near a school for the next several decades.
This is why if I was the last woman on earth, I would kill myself IMMEDIATELY. I would rather die than endure what would happen to me at the hands of men for the rest of my life.
A few years ago, somebody on Reddit asked one of those big subs like AskReddit something like, what would you do if there was an apocalypse?
Half the comments shared their master plan for finding weapons, food, allies, and a safe base they could easily defend. Basically, their plan was to become a warlord.
I was gonna make a smartass comment, but then I remembered that grizzly bear that survived getting hit by two different trains. (Bear 122, aka "The Boss" of Banff National Park, if anyone is curious.)
Additionally, if a bear attacks me in the woods, there's not gonna be a bunch of other bears who get online just to say I secretly wanted and deserved it
I kind of get the sentiment, but it still doesn't make much sense to me. A bear will start eating you before you're even dead, and it's much easier to kill a man than a bear.
Adding to this, if a Bear harms you, it'll likely be put down. If a man harms you, 9/10 nothing happens.
And you're being very generous with that 9/10
This is a big one.
you can say whore on the internet I promise I won't tattle
I know, but some subreddits shadowban/ban certain words. The censorship is for the bot.
That last one happened to my best friend when she was 15, in combination with "friends" bit.
In high school she had 2 guy "friends". Probably the closest supposed friends she had at the time.
One night they were all at a party. When she wasn't looking her "friends" roofied her. She was gangraped by those 2 "friends" and others. It was filmed and shared among the students at her high school.
None of her rapists were ever punished, despite there being literal video footage of it.
Have you considered that those young men might have had very promising futures ahead of them, perhaps even professional swimming careers? We wouldn’t want to ruin their whole lives over a silly mistake now, would we?
Jesus did you go to school in Steubenville
This kind of thing happens constantly.
Oh, for sure, I was making a lightly tongue-in-cheek comment on how bad the situation it. Just like the promising swimming career comment
Sorry. I just get so sad about this.
Nah, somewhere in Georgia.
She went to school somewhere in Arkansas.
Bears generally leave people alone anyway (I do lots of solo hiking/camping in bear country)
I live in a city with a serious bear problem. An air horn or even loud shouting generally gets the message across.
Oh my god, I’m imagining blasting an airhorn at a guy who won’t go away! 😂
My father & stepmom used to get black bears going after their beehives at the edge of their property (they lived in the woods back then) and just kept an old frying pan and wooden spoon by the back door. Lean outside and bang it a couple times and the bears would take off running.
I tell people to chase away black bears like you chase away a dog. Just loud yelling. NO. STOP. GO! I've never seen it fail.
Also true!
You, madam, have my utmost respect for the solo hiking! I’d never be able to do that!
I actually feel safer in the woods by myself (no men!), luckily I've never had a problem. I've gotten to hang out watching black bears play a few times too & that's one of the best experiences. (and we respected each others space. it's soooo easy!)
That sounds lovely!
Unfortunately for me, I’ve watched far too many horror movies and read too many books on American folklore and such lol
Lol i recently started listening to people’s woods “horror” stories (tbf they’re mostly “oh no someone was being weird in the woods not bothering anyone”)
Lol. Yeah, that wouldn’t really bother me. Its more like things in r/stairsinwoods and stories like The search and rescue ones
Granted, those stories seem to be fictional…but I’ve read others that I do believe are true lol
I’m determined to now be someone’s scary story because of course I’m weird in the woods - where else should people go to be weird without others judging them???
But yeah i have no idea how my city kid ass was just comfortable walking out into the woods lol
Be weird in the woods! I don’t mind hikes or walks in the woods during the day and I am very weird!
Also, you have conquered the city so naturally you will conquer the woods (by going in them and treating them respectfully!)
I’ve been charged by a bear and I would still choose the bear.
I read that grizzly bears will eat their offspring if they come across them so even female grizzlies know what’s up
There is a female grizzly who raises her cubs with in sight of a highway somewhere north of Yellowstone. Male bears are even more frightened of human contact than female bears, so she puts up with her nervousness about the people that stop along the highway to photograph her in order to keep her cubs safe.
The police won't refuse to investigate and write it off as self harm by a crazy person.
That's so true. Nobody will ever deflect and talk about how false accusations of maulings ruin the lives of innocent bears.
Also the police aren’t predatory bears.
Bear behavior is more predictable than a humans.
Yeah, they also don’t scream at me or call me a bitch when turned down
This is why I hate the holidays but I can’t explain it to anyone irl. Such an isolating feeling 😔
Statistically speaking, men should also be choosing the bear.
Crazy thing is, most men will pick the bear if asked. I found a few videos actually asking them and out of like a dozen guys, almost all of them picked the bear as well.
The two guys who didn't were then asked, "What if it was your wife/daughter/girlfriend?" Both guys immediately changed their answers and picked the bear.
Men know.
Like the trope, when a father meets his daughter's first boyfriend, the father will casually hold his shotgun to put fear in the kid. Men know.
"Not all men" but also "Let the woman I love be alone with some guy? No way, he could be a rapist!"
Death by bear can be one of the worst ways to go and I think that adds to the argument
Yeah bears don’t care if you are still alive and conscious, they just start eating. At least you always know the bears intentions unlike humans
Yet human men have still done worse.
Would rather die at the hands of a bear than a man. Would rather have a near miss with a bear than a man. Would rather have 100% peaceful encounter with a bear than a man.
Odds are, if a bear is attacking me, it’s because it’s a female bear, I got too close to her cubs without realizing it, and mother bears are really, REALLY protective.
(Literally, that’s like one of the biggest reasons behind actual bear attacks)
(Edit to say: my point is, there’s a very good chance that the bear is just as justified in going aggro as I am in choosing the bear over the man. Female bears only immediately choose violence because the male bears get all infanticidal if they think they have a chance of getting her pregnant with his cubs instead.)
(Second edit: I am NOT saying that senseless violence is inherent to all males regardless of species. I AM saying it’s still far too commonplace, and I honestly wouldn’t blame the bear knowing that. A girl’s gotta do what she’s gotta do, even when that girl weighs 150 kilos, is covered in fur, and lives in the woods)
A girl’s gotta do what she’s gotta do, even when that girl weighs 150 kilos, is covered in fur, and lives in the woods)
The life we all dream of
The bear won't leave a fucking birthday card with no stamp or return address in my mailbox on my 25th birthday, after I was taken away from him at age 5.
The bear won't stalk me on Facebook.
The bear won't plead "no contest", but still get to live near a school for the next several decades.
The bear won't have his grave pissed on someday.
● The worst a bear can do is to kill me
That is my biggest reason tbh
This is why if I was the last woman on earth, I would kill myself IMMEDIATELY. I would rather die than endure what would happen to me at the hands of men for the rest of my life.
A few years ago, somebody on Reddit asked one of those big subs like AskReddit something like, what would you do if there was an apocalypse?
Half the comments shared their master plan for finding weapons, food, allies, and a safe base they could easily defend. Basically, their plan was to become a warlord.
The other half of the comments said suicide.
Try to guess the gender of each.
Paris Paloma has a great (gut wrenching) song about this.
Only one I might disagree with is eating you.
Some Bears are not picky, especially in the north, they will eat dead things for a quick meal if it’s fresh enough
I don't really see that as a problem, I'm dead anyway
Might as well feed the local wildlife
They usually don’t care if you’re dead or not.
Still choosing the bear.
Oh gosh that last one ... >:(
This should go on r/coolguides.
This is an excellent quick reference, thank you!
You can scare the bear away.
It may or may not work for the guy
The bear doesn't give a shit about you unless it's literally starving to death or you sneak up on it.
Yes, but I can kill a man.
I was gonna make a smartass comment, but then I remembered that grizzly bear that survived getting hit by two different trains. (Bear 122, aka "The Boss" of Banff National Park, if anyone is curious.)
I’m more issuing the warning into the void than being flippant
The bear and I would meet with true intentions.
“If the bear attacks people will believe me” hits too hard
Bears kill because they don’t have the awareness to know better, men have the awareness to know better and could still choose to do it.
A bear will only kill you once.
Additionally, if a bear attacks me in the woods, there's not gonna be a bunch of other bears who get online just to say I secretly wanted and deserved it
I kind of get the sentiment, but it still doesn't make much sense to me. A bear will start eating you before you're even dead, and it's much easier to kill a man than a bear.