I admit my username is misleading but I am a woman.
I kind of hate this question because I keep feeling like something is wrong with me for picking the man. The biggest threat is neither the man nor the bear, it’s the forest. If you’re lost in the woods dying of exposure is the biggest danger. As a bear lives in the woods and men by and large do not, encountering a bear would be neutral (as you’re kind of in the bear’s house) and a man positive if you’re lost because a. He’s statistically likely to be part of a search party and b. Even if he’s not, hell, even if he’s the biggest asshole who ever lived, it means you’re within walking distance of a way out.
I promise I’m not trying to be a smartass, I genuinely don’t get it. I do suspect I may be autistic though…am I just being too literal?
That makes a fair bit more sense, thank you. At that point I would be more “on average bear, with some minor variance under specific edge cases”.
For what it’s worth, I wasn’t trying to add irrelevant information; I just admittedly have a bit of a tendency to overanalyze in general and my immediate response when this was initially making the rounds was to try and use ALL the information provided.
In hindsight, I think if it had been “a bear alone in the woods or a strange man alone on an otherwise abandoned street” I’d have clocked it a lot easier.