No. My feelings about bears stem from having grown up around them. Tracking them to assess for health as part of a student survey (BS Wildlife Science) for land my Wildlife Management professor owned, and general broader knowledge about bears than you typically get from the sensationalized media sources most young men seem to be losing their damn minds over.

Bears can be dangerous. They are wild animals and as such, they react accordingly. Sometimes they are stressed or injured or desperste and will attack without provocation.

But they don't hunt women for food, for sex, for entertainment, or for perversion. We are not their natural food source.

Men do. A lot of men do. They are loud and proud about it.

And then society blames women for being preyed upon by men. Women have to live and deal with not just being preyed upon by men, but being gaslit about it by society.

I adore bears. Encountering one is almost always a magical experience.

I know EXACTLY how dangerous they can be. Certainly far more than the average guy on here who keeps insisting all bears are vicious man eating grizzlies that want to eat my face off. That's the bias. It's bullshit. Sensationalist, inflammatory, fear mongering bullshit.

I know exactly how dangerous bears can be. I also know exactly how to handle and conduct myself in the open in bear country. I know what signs of a bear in proximity looks like.

I still adore them. They're bears. Definitely in the top 5 of a very long list of creatures favorites.