TikTok is once again doing its thing, women are starting to tell their stories without feeling judged, some people understand their point of view, others don’t. 

Men vs Bear is a TikTok trend mostly directed towards women: Would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a bear? they have made it clear that they prefer encountering a bear than a man. It has been going on for quite some time, it’s a simple hypothetical question that has made a lot of women talk about their bad experiences with men. The most common answers for the women who chose the bear were something like “You know what to expect from a bear.” or even “Absolutely a bear humans are capable of so so much worse.” The explanation for those answers was very simple, they know what to do if they ever encounter a bear but they’ll never know what men are capable of during certain circumstances. Some people were shocked by how women view men, like someone who posted a tweet on X saying “The fact that women would even consider hypothetical man/bear questions means we have utterly failed to create a safe society,”

According to data from the United Nations, one in three women across the world have experienced intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence, categories that include domestic violence and rape. That’s what women fear most, sometimes when acts like that happen there’s not always evidence to show what occurred, as someone said “Bear, because If I got attacked by a bear people would believe me.”. Women choose bear over men because they know how the world works, in most cases the world doesn’t believe the victim. They know that they’ll get more help if they get injured by a bear than if they talk to someone about what happened with another human being.