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Gods, it's like some people never passed 10th grade English. Sometimes the important part of the text isn't the literal meaning. There's like metaphor and hyperbole and shit.

When you meet a bear in the woods, there is a 0% chance they will notice how the situation bears a resemblance to the popular meme and proceed to mansplain about how bears are more dangerous.

This is and has always been the one and only reason women choose the bear. But one question yet eludes us: how did the cycle start?

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Dude was going around asking if theyd rather meet a man or a bear in the woods. There isnt much hidden meaning behind it, its not a 4deep2me tumblr post

Here's the thing. You're very right, it's not deep at all. Metaphors, similies, analogies, hyperboles, implications, etc. are all very normal parts of human speech, and this meme is pretty surface level in its requirement to use these things.

However, something has dawned on me, and I feel it necessary to ask you: are you perhaps on the spectrum? We sometimes have difficulties not taking everything literally, and this causes a communication gap. If this is the case, I will be completely and totally clear for you.

We are not literally talking about a literal bear vs a literal man. This is in fact a real metaphor for "danger vs danger". The literal interpretation is "men can be scary to many women". Going further, respond to this point and don't fixate on the hypothetical bear.

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