I know what your point was and I wasn't pointing that out to invalidate your choice.

As you said, as a hypothetical there is no right or wrong.

I'm just saying that what you choose depends greatly on what the words random man, random bear, and woods mean to you. And maybe even alone.

I find the evolution of the commentary absolutely fascinating. How men are taking the question as the woman is in inherent danger because she's alone. That there is going to be an attack from the bear, but women are divided on that based on whether or not they live in bear country, what sort of bears they're familiar with and whether woods means a National Park or trailhead or their rural "back yard".

To men, the bear is always a grizzly. Grizzlies aren't even the biggest badass amongst bears. That would be the Kodiak brown bear or a polar bear. But it's always a grizzly for them. Oh, and it's always maximum weight too. There's no discernment whatsoever over how the snowline affects the size of the bear (the further north yiu go, thr bigger mammals get, in general), and that kind of thing.

And they're all experts, these guys with their feelings hurt. Especially the ones who have lived in a city in a country that has no bears their whole life and never seen a wild herbivore, much less a bear. But they know all about bears and exactly what the bear will do to us. In vividly and gloriously Freudian detail.

Very very Freudian detail. There's some real vicarious longing going on in that.