Would you rather share your emotions with a woman or a tree?

The follow up rebuttal to the Would you rather be stuck in the woods with a bear or a man? question is “Would you rather share your emotions with a woman or a tree?”

It’s a newer social media trend, so if you want to check it out, search it up there.

The responses have been intriguing. Despite what women may want to believe, bears are definite immediate threats to their physical well-being; however, statistically speaking, men, with whom they encounter up to thousands of times on a daily basis, are mostly passive if not positively helpful to them. It can be expected that a man will either ignore or help a woman and that while domestic violence and assault does happen, it is rare.

Men though are struggling with mental health. The male suicide rate is 4 times higher than female (22.8/100000 vs 5.7/100000). Men find it difficult to share their emotions and feel they are socially criticized when they try.

Women in the bear/man scenario decried the defensive responses of men because they just wanted men to listen to their feelings, learn about their struggles, and work on improving the world so that it is both physically and emotionally safer for women.

But here are some quoted comments on different posts where men say they would pick the tree:

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@DB: My wife asked me how I’m feeling, every time I started to express myself she kept interrupting to tell me how my feelings made her feel ???????.They always make it about their feeling, I pick the tree

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@WeSlideGaming: the tree will listen without trying to correct me on my feelings

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@Cryptic_Daemon: the tree will listen completely without judging or using my feeling as an attack against me

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@infinitejayrok: Theres a reason whenever asked how im doing my response is “im fine,” no matter how bad things get, “im fine,” because me not being “fine” is me being a liability.

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@Rob Logan: Tree. It’ll actually listen and not get “the ick” from the vulnerability it asked for.

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And a few responses from women:

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@abby: trees..don’t…talk? they are plants? i’m sorry about your trauma and what you’ve been through, but this is insane. women are choosing death or men having their way with way them. don’t be ignorant

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@Meg: Females aged 16-19 are four times as likely to be sexually assaulted. That’s the point of bear vs man argument. 1 in 5 women have been SA’d. 1 in 5.

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@DenimForDads: Is there a reason why you need to talk to a tree instead of a man?

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@VMK: Men will do ANYTHING except go to therapy, even talk to fricking trees. And they wonder why more women are becoming lesbians

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