Commentary: The ‘Man versus Bear’ TikTok meme went viral. Here’s another way to approach the question

If you’re alone in the forest, who would you rather run across: a man you don’t know or a bear? This question, posed to multiple women in a TikTok video last month, has taken the dilemma of man versus bear viral. And women online are nearly unanimous in favor of the stocky, shaggy, sleeps-through-the-winter one.

Let me clarify in case you know guys who fit that description: the bear. They’re all choosing the bear.

The question is a chance for women