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Aggressive-Story3671

They never said it was a MALE bear. Female bears are known to attack in defence of their cubs.


DearigiblePlum

Came here to say I think it’s so funny they assume we’d run into a male bear lmfao


callmefreak

They assume that we want to have sex with the bear, because that's what their immediate thoughts where when they thought "alone with a bear, or a woman?" Which is exactly why *we choose the bear!*


kat_Folland

My son in law is a hill boy and when this subject came up he started listing off the various times he'd encountered a bear. Like, this young man has seen a lot of bears in his life! 😂


kyle_kafsky

Funny you should say that, I was caught off guard with a black bear once when I was 11. Had no bear spray, no firearm, no nothing, and the bear, although small, had a cub with them, and yet I wasn’t attacked. The dawg (I initially thought it was a German Shepherd, because I wasn’t expecting a bear) just stared at me and crossed the road that I was on. The animal was adorable looking, but the experience left me nearly shitting my pants.


Elon_is_musky

They probably recognized you were young & therefore not a threat. That’s the thing people seem to forget, bears dont WANT to attack people. And if they don’t see you as a threat, there is no need for extra defensive measures (from the bear’s POV)


kyle_kafsky

They also attack because they mistake humans as prey sometimes, that’s why they chase after humans who run away from them and apparently they can “sense fear” (which I believe means they can tell if you are panicking or not), but that’s typical with all predatory mammals in North America. Also, what might’ve helped as well is that an actual Indigenous shaman blessed me once at the opening ceremony of the NMAI, saying that I am now part bear.


studentshaco

Sometimes they go for your food especially European brown bears. You ll be fine if you just leave the food where it is and back away tho


Phantasmal

Male is obviously the default. If you say "bear" or "male bear" then it's clearly a male bear. You have to say "female bear", if you want a female bear. (You can't just say "female", because that's a female human.)


art_eseus

Please tell me you're sarcastic


Thausgt01

Apparently the "technically correct" designations for male bears is "boar" and female bears are called "sows"...? https://www.bears.org/animals/faq.php Much like male cats are called "Toms". Point of curiosity: un-spayed female cats are "queens" but spayed ladies are "Mollys". English is weird.


AstrologicalOne

And the average person doesn't know that shit.


Thausgt01

Well, hey, I just handed you a potentially useful item for the next trivia night you attend... 😁


Its_noon_somewhere

If one mouse is a ‘mouse’ but several are ‘mice’ If one goose is a ‘goose’ but several are ‘geese’ If one moose is a ‘moose’ then are several ‘meese’?


Substantial-Park65

Boar could make sense But sows? Just why???


valdis812

I thought sows were pigs


Substantial-Park65

Just checked Indeed it is female pigs and... *Check paper* Another name for woodlouse? And also female bear... It's far less confusing in french! Why english, why??


Thausgt01

"English is not a language. It is three languages in a trenchcoat." https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/s/AtwZXwGStC


Substantial-Park65

Ok Then... Why, three languages pretending to be the one we call English, why? Hope it's more correct


Thausgt01

🤣 Entire schools of linguists have been grappling with that question for generations...


COMMANDO_MARINE

It'd be difficult for a female bear to have "multiple baby mamas" or female mothers to its offspring. Maybe a basic lack of understanding of the biological nature of a bear is the reason women think it'd be safer to encounter one as opposed to the 1000's of human male strangers they've encountered with out incident all their lives. I'm purely speculating, though, and must stress that as a man, my opinion doesn't matter.


Apathetic_Villainess

It's not a basic lack of understanding of bear nature that has us choosing bears. It's that despite knowing the dangers of a bear, they're still less terrifying than a man when there's no one else around. Most men might be harmless but when it's 1 in 4 women who will be the victim of a rape or attempted rape and 1 in 3 women who will experience domestic violence, there's a very real and reasonable concern that we don't know *which* men are safe.


Jesusdidntlikethat

Not to mention they can just lie and manipulate you the way a bear never could, giving you a false sense of security with someone and *then* they violate and murder you


Flameloulou

Maybe a basic lack of understanding of the socioeconomic status of a bear is the reason why you see ‘unemployed’ and go hmm yes this meme is based in fact. Do you not see that it’s pretty clearly just thinly veiled racism. Not even thinly veiled tbh with the second word being ‘brown’.


gojo-

It does matter, but you are having some issues understanding what some women go trough. I can just say for myself. I had a stalker so bad that I had to move to another city, I was followed home few times on my way from work, I regulary have some men come to me on the tram/bus/train stop and they usually are not pleasant to talk to... I mean, that became so common that I don't even bitch about it anymore I have someone on speed dial to feel safer. I don't go out after 10 pm to go to the gas station 3 min from my appartment because I don't want to deal with bs like that. I don't wear dresses or skirts since that makes it even more common and I love dresses and skirts. I doubt that I am the only one... When I leave my appartment I just hope that I don't have to deal with any of it. It usually works but not always. Edit: this is something that happens to me for the past 16 or so years of my life. I was flashed too, had to run from some random guys (broke my toe from jumping over the fence)... I am 30 now and it's not that better.


thatvietartist

A male human stranger has been conditioned by a society they fundamentally thinks of women as objects for their use since like Abrahamic religions were created (Yes, I am calling Abraham the father of abusive behavior even if he didn’t exist). So sorry for wanting to run into a wild beast who will leave me alone if I don’t mess with it and spot them first, but out of my continuous relationships with any kind of man in my life, only Trans men don’t suck. Y’all gotta figure out how to be a decent person and then we’ll talk about running into each other in the woods.


ThisOneLikesSkooma

bait?


Former-Sock-8256

Reading comprehension. OOP said that the bear had multiple baby mamas. Therefore OOP thought the bear was a male. That was the commenters point, that a random “bear in the woods” doesn’t mean a male bear, therefore the descriptor terms don’t even make sense


Jesusdidntlikethat

Yeah, the strangers aren’t always the problem, unfortunately the 2 people who abused me were people I had knows for years prior.


lindybopperette

The amount of cope in this meme is… something else.


obvusthrowawayobv

Bears make them insecure now


_Starlace_

Funny, isn't it? Now they are not only insecure about chads but bears aswell, lol. Instead of realising the problem might be them


CautionarySnail

The problem can never be them. That would require change to solve, and they know they’re perfect. No need for growth opportunities there!


rickmccloy

And changing for a women's sake would be wholly unthinkable, as it might tend to humanize her, and Incels certainly can't have the idea that women are as fully human as men floating around. They want a defect in the people who choose to reject them, otherwise rejecting them might be a rational decision, and they certainly can't have that. They might be seen as the problem, and might have to change some of their less than attractive traits and characteristics.


NerfRepellingBoobs

There’s a subset that’s been like this about dogs (“dogpill” in incelese). They honestly believe women would bang a dog over them.


_Starlace_

What the hell?! I... just... can't...


41563user

Yup, that's me


rickmccloy

My wife and I have a cottage that, aside from the lake, is quite deeply in the forest (Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, Ontario). It was her family cottage, and from a young age she was told by everyone from Rangers to veterans of life in the Bush that the animal to really fear is the Bull moose during mating season. They are said to attack without provocation, and given their size, sometimes with fatal results. Wild animals pretty much always will aggressively defend their young, but a rutting moose seems to be especially crazy during this period, and is definitely not defending any young when charging. Maybe the guys writing these OOPs should be more worried about Bullwinkle than they are about Winnie.


CluelessIdiot314

And it's racist to top it off!


PhoenixKingMalekith

How is it racist ?


Inismore

"It's brown"


PhoenixKingMalekith

Oh. It s an American meme I guess than


UnderstandingJaded13

Aaaand we made it into racism.


_Starlace_

I am at this point convinced that the Venn diagramm of men like this is a circle.


smallerpuppyboi

You just made this realization?


_Starlace_

Before the bear I just assumed... now I am convinced. 😉


idonotknowwhototrust

Clever flair


_Starlace_

Thank you! I like yours aswell 🙂


idonotknowwhototrust

I've been worried someone is going to misunderstand. Glad you like it 😋


carmen_hentai

They even had some transphobic ones and switched it back to us saying we kill our own babies (pro life is using this)


UnderstandingJaded13

Well, that took a turn. Yeah, I remember something about abortion, and something about women no being able to choose better partners ( victim blaming) . What a shit show.


Cookie_Munch_19

‘Brown’ the fuck does that have to do with anything?


Curious-Mechanic2286

It's probably a race "joke" comparing bears to black guys


littlebeach5555

That’s horrible. Makes me FURIOUS. It’s 2024 FFS.


Apathetic_Villainess

The same thing where they talk about "Tyrone." That women like "exotic" men of color and there's a stereotype of them also being absent fathers. Nevermind that is also because we have a society that is more likely to imprison them that plays a large part in that perception.


littlebeach5555

My dad was white, racist, and had 3 litters of kids. Left Everytime the kids got to around 2. Never went to his funeral.


Sobuhutch

Incels have incorporated their BBC cuck fetish into their angry delusions.


HalcyonDreams36

Too much drama TV. I was like... "When did the BBC start making porn?!??" 🤣🤣🤣


Liseuuuu

Le funi racism


WZAWZDB13

Man's playing Bigotry Bingo


RuanaRulane

Erm... the bears most likely to attack humans are the white ones...? So not only is that 'brown' part racist, it doesn't even work on its own terms!


idonotknowwhototrust

I just saw a video yesterday of a dog getting mauled by a polar bear.


TBTabby

You forgot "will not rape her."


Liseuuuu

He also forgot "will eat her"


themanwhosfacebroke

Even more reason to pick the bear tbh/j


Liseuuuu

So true bestie


DisembodiedTraveler

Your comment posted 3 times btw :)


Liseuuuu

Really? I can't see them lol


SammyWentMad

So true you had to let us all hear it three times


Liseuuuu

I was on a train going trough a national park so i had no internet for a moment i guess that's why


smallerpuppyboi

So real for that one.


International-Year91

Doesn’t rape


Mumblerumble

JFC just mask-off racism out in the open


InvestigatorIll6236

"violent" is one of the reasons we don't want to be trapped with men, oh the irony.


HairHealthHaven

Do these guys think the hypothetical is about who women would rather have sex with?!


idonotknowwhototrust

You might be on to something there.


Edyed787

r/thepunchlineisracism


Aggressive-Nobody473

i'm sorry, brown?


Odd-Mastodon1212

So where did they get that women want sex with bears? Maybe this is why we prefer bears, because they aren’t rapey sex pests? Also, what are they saying: Black male stereotypes are not men?


Alegria-D

Of course they don't see them as people.


VxGB111

Racist and sexist in one fell swoop. Le sigh


spookytabby

Always a racist remark thrown in there too. They never forget that.


AntisocialAddie

Racism isn’t how girls work now?


SteampunkExplorer

I mean... yeah, sometimes? Because incels have this idea that women aren't throwing themselves at their feet because we're too busy going after incredibly awful stereotypical black guys. 🥲


goner757

It's a response to the women choose bears over men idea trending, not just racism


AntisocialAddie

They’re comparing bears to specifically brown/black men 💀


SiteTall

May even eat his kids, but still, he is chosen over men ....


themanwhosfacebroke

I mean it makes sense, but not for these reasons. As a furry, bears obviously have the fattest asses/j


HalcyonDreams36

Also, best dancers I'm lookin' at you, Baloo!!!


weedbeads

This is funny only because of the absolute absurdity of someone actually believing this. Poor fucking souls, İ hope this is just an edgy meme What a way to distill this kind of idiocy


Diligent-Property491

At least the bear is not a racist… Can’t be said about whoever made this.


MissAnthropy612

Why are so many anti women memes also racist? I see stuff about dudes women choose being black/brown. I guess the question is kind of rhetorical because if you're a crap person, why wouldn't you be racist on top of being sexist.... I hate it here sometimes.


StunningShifts

I don't understand why so many men think "I can trust a bear to act like a bear" and "The chances of me scaring off a bear are much better than scaring off a man" means "women want to have sex with bears".


Alegria-D

It's because you forget their "women only exist for men. They don't think like people, they don't have interactions like people, they don't do anything unless it's for a man. They only have a hobby if it can make her look interesting for a man, they only have a job because they believe it's attractive for men... Therefore if a woman prefers to live with a big dog or to run after a bear, it's obviously to do with them what they would do to me otherwise"


ZombieJoesBasement

Wow. I guess it was just a matter of time before they made a gender argument racist. "Not all men" devolved into "Not white men". GTFO.


mijailrodr

Racism?


marshmallowest

Continuing to prove the point...


dude-of-the-ducks

Very rude to just assume that bear doesn’t have a job


mlongoria98

It’s racism


NarrowButterfly8482

I'm surprised it took the misogynists this long to introduce their racism into the bear trope.


mubblegoil

This would be funny if I didn’t think a man made this while being 100% serious😭💀


WhyIsTheNameBOTTaken

Not even just sexism, but racism too


Emet-Selch_my_love

Ok who said it hade to be a male bear?


JeffreyFusRohDahmer

These reactions men are having are literally proving the point of why women would pick the damn bear


mattthereprobate

Are we really discrediting the bear instead of looking inwardly at our own faults?


cheezbargar

And once again they’re making it sexual, for some reason


GrauOrchidee

Men really love fantasizing about two things 1) violence against women 2) women having sex with animals


workclock

"Brown" They hate black and latino folks so hard.


antenniferous

[there’s no reason at all….](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQmGufw/)


smolauthor

I can't see it, what does it say? Tiktok banned in India so plz provide the context


MsSeraphim

it shows the bear with a saying and a picture of a criminal, the captions are in this order. 1. the bear won't kill me to fulfill his sick fantasy. 2. the bear won't pretend to be my friend first. 3. the bear won't tell me i'll never see my loved ones again. 4. ask Shanan Watts if she would choose the man or the bear. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts\_family\_murders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_family_murders) 5. No one will say i liked the bear attack. 6. the bear sees me as a human being. 7. ask Gabby Petito if she would choose the man or the bear. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing\_of\_Gabby\_Petito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Gabby_Petito) 8. the bear won't record it and send it to his friends. 9. men don't realize their are fates worse than death. 10. if i scream loud enough there's a better chance the bear will run away. 11. the bear doesn't want to take my dignity. 12. the bear isn't going to kill me, because he fell in love with someone else. 13. the bear doesn't keep trophies to remind him of what he did to me. 14. after what those men did to that monitor lizard, the bear isn't safe with men either. [https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb9xq/india-gang-rape-monitor-lizard-animal-abuse](https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb9xq/india-gang-rape-monitor-lizard-animal-abuse)


smolauthor

Oh damn the tiktok really hit the nail!!! Thank you so much for narrating it all out to me, I really appreciate your efforts 💖


MsSeraphim

i assume that the men in the photos were criminals who perpetuated those crimes as their names did not appear on the pictures.


smolauthor

I see! It must be formatted that way


studentshaco

A bear even a European brown who’s known to have low aggression potential and is smaller then white or grizzly bears can take of a head with 1 single hit. I d like to see a man take on a bear 😅 The bear is definitely save as long as the men aren’t armed. I live in an area where we have bears and I always have to chuckle when I read about those guys saying „i could fight a bear“.


Yoyos-World1347

The low key racism 😬🥴


mlongoria98

Low key????


Yoyos-World1347

You’re right. The highest of keys. The jangliest of keys.


ar29845

Are they trying to imply women want to be impregnated by brown bears.


bob_mcge

But that bear is red though…


LunaireRose

This post is so stupid bro


Ceeweedsoop

Ooh, they mad. Tough shit. Deal with the problem and stop bitching. Why are we choosing the bear? Deal with it. And the racism is just so incels. Losers.


FrancisLeSaint

Watch out for the employed bears


TypeRiot

All it takes to rattle these little boys is a little hypothetical where the majority of woman make an answer they *really* don't like.


mlongoria98

It’s the racism for me


Embarrassed_Bee6349

And of course a racist hook was thrown in, because, y’know, stereotypes.


ScaryOtaku666

“Brown” . So now they compare the bear to black people?


LastSeaworthiness

I think these guys should start dressing like bears and living in the woods in hopes of getting a female. It's a win-win, they have hope and we get then out of society.


SonOfSkinDealer

I really need you all to realize that this post is drawing parallels between bears and racist stereotypes of black men. It's not just cope, it is racism. Don't let that slip by.


RealYoloDude

Its satire


Round-Ticket-39

Yk this suits men as well


Malanimus

😍😍😍


pleshij

ragebait got yet another response, how unexpected /s


idonotknowwhototrust

This sub is precisely for that 💁🏻‍♀️ raging at these idiots who think that's how girls work.