I've seen a bunch of these street interviews from the UK and vids from women who live or have lived in bear country. It does color how women approach the question.

For most women in the UK, it's all about rape and torture before death or your family knowing what happens to you vs you just disappearing and them never having closure or a burial.

For women from bear country, it's all about one 'no' being enough (particularly black bear country or koala bear country) and the expectation of NOT being harassed, just being able to coexist peacefully with the bear but not with men.

This comes from practical knowledge about the nature of bears and the nature of men vs perception of bears based on all forms of media and the practical knowledge of the nature of men.

People from bear country are also posting all sorts of videos with bears that are great. There's one with a woman and a bear towering behind her and it's paw over her shoulder and she says something that gets translated to "you ask the woman why bear but she's from Russia."

There's another one in what looked like rural Maine where a woman opens the door and you see there are scratch marks on the outside of the door and there's a black bear standing right outside the door. She backs up and is still filming and just chatting up the bear. The bear comes inside, looks around and then grabs the upright vacuum cleaner she had by the door and backs out. So it's stealing her vacuum cleaner. It's still plugged in and the bear gets caught up trying to get it past the guard railing on the landing staircase. So she follows the bear out onto the landing, half apologizing to the bear and expressing concern that he might hurt himself or accidentally start a fire or whatever. She reaches out slowly, still chatting up that bear, to take back her vacuum cleaner and in the process accidentally turns it on. The bear screams and takes off running.

Of course, the most interesting and telling ones are the guys losing their shit over the overwhelming preference for the bear and the father videos.

Fathers are also overwhelmingly choosing for their infant, toddler, and very young daughters to be alone in the woods with a bear than an unknown man. The perception is the bear might adopt them and take care of them or there's a chance it will be a cuddly type of bear like a koala and it's almost like a cool gift for their little girl. But a random man will either abandon her there rather than help her get home.... or worse.

The perpetually aggrieved guys are really telling on themselves too. It's interesting to see how they subtlety shift the context of the hypothetical or move the goalposts in their diatribes. Some of it's subconscious and some is deliberate but obtuse choices where they are missing the point entirely but accidentally swinging wildly back around to smack into it again.

This is one of the most fascinating viral things I've seen on the internet in a good long while.

There's just so much in that one little question. It's awesome!