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There hasn't been a comparison, though.

A bear is never really dangerous if you know what you're doing. (Except if it's a polar bear, but they don't really roam forests). You look at the bear, talk calmly and back off. Problem solved. Most men would be of no danger at all, but you can never know if you've got the one in a hundred or so that will run after you, catch you, and do seriously bad things to you.

If you know what you're supposed to do when you see a bear and you do that, you have chance of something happening, but it's very small. If you know what you're supposed to do when you see a man and you do that, you have chance of something happening, but it's very small, but bigger than the danger from a bear.

With a bear you have a standard course of action, and it works. With a man you have a standard course of action and it often keeps you safe, but there's a bigger chance that a man is of the exceptional deranged type than that a bear is of the exceptional deranged type.

At least in Finland bears are encountered by people regularly, but the only case of a bear having killed a human in Finland was in 1998. Before that, nothing from the time when such statistics have been made.

I don't find it insulting that many women feel that bears are on average safer than men on average. I understand that's the reality and I am able to act accordingly when I'm around women.