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BEAR VS MAN | RELATIONSHIPS

Who Would You Choose — Bear or Man?

There is nothing sexier than a man who wants me to scream my consent to the world, so why would I still choose the bear?

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If you’ve missed the heated conversation, it started innocently enough with someone asking on TikTok, ‘if you are alone in the woods, would you prefer to be with a man or a bear?’

Unsurprisingly to me, almost all women pick the bear.

Curiously, not all men understand why women would pick the bear. Surely, women know that a bear will kill them? Surely, women know that a mama bear protecting her cubs can be the most vicious creature on earth?

Yes. We know.

Many women have explained their reasoning and I urge you to do a quick search and read their reasons in their own words because I cannot do them justice.

My answer — if I can pick the man, then I’ll choose the man.

If it is my current partner or male relatives, I’ll choose the man. My reason — they’ve never given me any reason not to trust them.

But an unknown man is like a gun. Since I don’t know whether it is loaded, or not, or whether the person holding it can use it, or not, I have to…

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