Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch.

• butter@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve seen one video on the subject that my wife showed me, then I had a conversation with my wife about it.

  When you’re looking at statistics, women attacked by bears per year vs women attacked by men per year, it’s not taking into account the fact that 99% of women don’t get into situations where they are near bears. Most women (and men) don’t go hiking in bear populated woods frequently. Like how the overall odds of getting struck by lightning is low, but some people are struck 8 times are survive.

  The better statistic for this argument is that a man is more likely going to kill you in an encounter, should it escalate. I didn’t fact check this, but I’ll take this video at it’s word.

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Almost like that was part of the original article.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Part of the reason many people never see a bear is because they actively stay away from humans. Everything being equal, (the bear is healthy, it’s not near hibernation, and there’s no cubs nearby) you could quite easily do the animal version of hanging out with them. (Animals are fine paralleling each other by something like 50 meters)

    Same thing with wolves. They’re so naturally adverse to human contact that handlers at wolf rescue operations just literally walk into the enclosure, drop their food and walk away. For vet stuff they come in with cushioned sticks and just gently pin them to the ground. Now I don’t suggest trying that without some training and backup but it illustrates just how much normal animals don’t want anything to do with humans.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How often are you near a bear? How many bears have you attacked or wronged? Do you wonder how a bear might react if it understood English and you talked about it like you talk about men?

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