I don’t think this is a good example of class struggle, at least not directly. The bear meme is valid in as much as it describes one woman’s feelings, but the truth is that in 85-90% of cases, the woman knows her attacker¹. The random man is simply not the issue.

The issue is power disparity. Teacher vs student, employer vs worker, landlord vs tenant. It’s difficult to reduce the power difference due to physical strength, but the others are all changeable. More (meaningful) oversight for police, better tenancy boards, and stronger unions are all examples of structures that might make it harder to victimize women.

Class struggle explains economic, and maybe political power, but those are not the only types of power in play.

And if I’m wrong? Then we’ve made a better society for nothing.

¹ https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/most-victims-know-their-attacker

The question is so vague as to be essentially useless. It leaves so much to the reader to imagine that everyone is all over the place drawing different conclusions. How much does the reader know about forests? What kind of forest did they imagine? What kind of bear? When the reader imagines a random man, what pops into their mind? Does he live there, or was he randomly kidnapped and placed in the forest for the purpose of the scenario?

Further, even if we go with what some other posters are saying, and ignore the bear, it’s still kind of useless, except to highlight how careful women feel they have to be around strange men.

For what it’s worth, in Canada the recommendation is to base the response on bear behaviour, taking into account the bear species. Don’t challenge or threaten a bear that’s protecting its cubs, or guarding a kill. Do challenge a curious bear, and fight back against predatory bears. Some information here: https://bcparks.ca/plan-your-trip/visit-responsibly/wildlife-safety/#page-section-405

Of course, since bears behave like big dumb humans, the advice mostly also applies to meeting people too :)

Fully automated luxury gay space communism FTW.

bears won’t stalk you, pretend to be friendly to gain your trust with the intention of harming you

Actually they will (sometimes). I had one young black bear that kept approaching me like a shy dog. It kept looking away and pretending to nibble bushes when I shouted at it. I left before finding out if it wanted to eat me (it probably did, being first thing in the spring). Another time we had a black bear that wasn’t too obviously aggressive, but followed one of our crew around for two days. We ended up shooting it because we were in a fly-in camp and couldn’t leave.

Most bears I met walked or ran away, including grizzlies.

Bears are complicated.

Because mercantilist wind turbine blades recycle themselves? Or did you mean to imply that communist wind turbines recycle themselves?

It’s kinda the same though isn’t it? Opposition to nuclear power, opposition to wind, solar, geothermal, hydro. Seems like maybe what people want most of all is to stick their heads in the sand and just have everything stay the same forever. It was a multi-decade effort to get people off of leaded gas FFS.

red tape

Hey, those are the safety standards!

I’ll see your blame.css and raise you git blame somebody else