Bear or Man?

Imagine this image: two scenes. In the first, a girl stands between a man and a bear, clearly pointing at the bear. In the second, she’s running away in panic from that same bear.

One simple question: Bear or Man?

No captions, no explanations, no metaphors. Just the question.
And yet the answers you’ll find under such posts online are disturbingly one-sided:

“Bear.”
“I choose the bear without hesitation.”
“I don’t trust men.”
“I feel safer with a bear.”

Now sit down and try to process that calmly.

A woman declares that she would rather be alone with a wild predator than with a human being.
Not because she knows the man. Not because he did anything to her. But simply because he’s a man.
And that alone is enough to trigger a cascade of fear in her mind.

Fear built by years of repetition: that a man = danger.
That a man always wants something.
That a man = potential rapist, abuser, sadist.

A bear? A bear has no intentions. He doesn’t look at her like a man. He doesn’t judge her. He doesn’t want anything.
Could he kill her? Of course. But that doesn’t matter. What matters is he doesn’t look at her like a man.

This is not a metaphor. This is not art. This is not exaggeration.
Women actually choose the bear.

And that says it all.

Let’s try a basic example.

A woman is dropped alone on a deserted island with an adult male grizzly bear. She doesn’t know the terrain. She has no weapon. No survival training.
What are her chances?

Virtually zero.
If the bear sees her and decides she’s a threat or prey — she’ll be torn apart. Because bears don’t empathize. They don’t negotiate. They kill.

Now switch the bear for a random man. She doesn’t know him either.
But what are her chances now?

Even if there’s a 1%, 2%, 5% risk that he’s dangerous — the chances of survival, communication, or teamwork are still infinitely higher than with a wild predator.

And yet — she picks the bear.

Some try to explain this.
They say it’s symbolic. That it’s about archetypes. That the bear represents something raw, primal, masculine — not like the soft men of today.
That it’s not about a real bear, but about longing for something else.

Bullshit.

When a woman says “I’d rather be with the bear,” she doesn’t mean Jung.
She really believes the bear will protect her, and the man will hurt her.

And that’s all you need to know about the state of modern discourse.

Let’s be crystal clear.

If we’ve reached a point where young women prefer wild animals to men,
because they feel safer with them —
then civilization, with all its empathy, reason, and human connection, has officially lost.

Bear or Man?
In today’s world — the bear wins.
Not because it makes sense.
But because fear in the mind has become stronger than reality.