442
Text:
Panel 1 Man and woman in office clothes in a break room.
Man: So, if you were alone in a forest, would you rather run into a strange man… or a bear?
Panel 2 Woman: Oh, hmm… I think the bear.
Man (angry): How can you say that?
(Bear looking quizzically through the window)
Panel 3 Man (angry): You're demonizing men! It's misandry!
Panel 4 Woman: Good point. Why would I ever hear men's reactions?
Man: Exactly! …where did the honey go?
Panel 5 Woman and bear sharing tea
Woman: At least if you maul me, pepper won't say I made it up or I'm misinterpreting.
Bear: I hear you
You're just filling in parts irrelevant to the question with things that undermine the question.
Let me reframe this so the irrelevant parts are handled and you can focus on the question that's actually being asked.
You're in the forest because you're an avid, experienced camper. You have supplies. You have all the tools needed for proper navigation and orienteering. You're in the forest alone because you enjoy the solitude and want to commune with nature to recharge your social batteries or whatever.
While you, an independent woman, fully capable of taking care of your physical needs, and not in any particular desire for social interaction, are in the forest, you have the choice of what to encounter:
Which do you choose?
That makes a fair bit more sense, thank you. At that point I would be more "on average bear, with some minor variance under specific edge cases".
For what it's worth, I wasn't trying to add irrelevant information; I just admittedly have a bit of a tendency to overanalyze in general and my immediate response when this was initially making the rounds was to try and use ALL the information provided.
In hindsight, I think if it had been "a bear alone in the woods or a strange man alone on an otherwise abandoned street" I'd have clocked it a lot easier.