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IDK, I'm not sold.
Neither Man nor Bear isn't presented as an option, the choices were Man or Bear so anybody who chooses Bear is CHOOSING THE BEAR. Bears are not kind to humans in their territory, if you run into a mother then you're going to be torn apart.
But she's getting both. Big brown bear and insufferably smug, demonstrably useless, petty and vindictive man.
Bears generally leave you alone unless you've got food and they're hungry... at which point, just give them your food and you'll be fine. Despite millions of humans living in historical bear territory, you get only 2-5 actual attacks reported per year.
Men can't make this claim.
How many thousands of men have you interacted with and yet are still alive? Are you seriously suggesting you could interact with thousands of bears and have the same success rate? You're manipulating the numbers in a very dishonest way.
Nobody is scared of vending machines even though they kill more people than sharks, not because sharks are safer, but because almost nobody interacts with a shark but almost everyone has many safe interactions with a vending machine.
The question is satire. It's a bit stupid to make agruments against it based on statistics.
It started as satire, perhaps, but I know woman who would literally rather go take their chances with a bear than a skeezy dude outside a bar following them to their car.