Out of social media land and with real life numbers. This question implies an encounter. Cuz if there's no encounter both are harmless. BearVault, says that for black bears (the most common) from 2000-2017 there's 11.7 non-fatal conflicts per year. That's 198.9 encounters over 17 years, so say 200. From 2000 to 2017 there have been 26 black bear kills. So both both are around 226 bear encounters where 26 of them were fatal. That's 11.5% chance to die in a black bear encounter. The American male population is 168.000.000 as of 2022. And combining all the sexual abuse offenders from 2017 to 2021 there's 5272 sexual abuse offenders (I added them all because of the unreported cases per year, this is closer to the real number) That's 0.003% of males are sexual abuse offenders. I'll take my chances with a man. [Edit: My data is from the United States Sentencing Commission about the number of sexual offenders. HOWEVER as pointed by a another redditer, there's 463634 victims of sexual assault per year and assuming they're all different male offenders, which is not the case, the math still says it's 0.3% of males are sexual offenders. I would still take my chances with a man, even with this overestimate.]

Found it on a feminist sub, I just scrolled down to the bottom and found this gem.
Anyways, that's not my point. It's an honor mention.

I feel like most bear supporters use this argument a lot, "90% criminals are men, x% rapists are men etc."
So, that means a bear is a safer choice.
Which to me, is senseless
(If someone can, please share a link which disapproves this claim of them, because I remember reading/seeing it somewhere but can't remember where)
Even without all that, I feel like there's no proper stats on the total number of men who actually commit the deeds, it's all about "x% of women getting affected by them" which doesn't really holds any value in itself.
A better question is to ask how much percentage of men (tbh, we shouldn't even use men here, but using it for the sake of argument) have actually commited those deeds if u wanna demonise one gender.
Is there any study which has been done on a worldwide basis?
If there isn't already, we really really need it because all of this media blow-up has created a very delusive perception about men which actually leads to today, worldwide censorless unrestrained demonization of men. This wasn't created by man vs Bear argument, it was there but hidden, born due to media trying to represent us in the bad light, creating a subconscious bias.
And to me, what bear vs man has proved, is how much more prevalent casual and institutionalised misandry is in the whole world rather than it's original aim women's issues (or so the people say is it's aim).

Also, I found an article-

To start despite common misconceptions and a greater unwillingness to report it men and women are victims of sexual assault at basically the same rates (in 2011 a survey found 1.270 million women and 1.267 million men victims respectively https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062022/). And the vast majority of these incidents are committed by acquaintances (about 72%) while out of the remaining 28% that are perpetrated by strangers men are slightly more likely to be victims (13.8 percent for female victims and 15.1 percent for male https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/01/nypd-captain-majority-of-rapes-are-not-total-abomination-rapes-committed-by-strangers.html) .

How much right the above quotation is? Or, what would be your argument against comments like, "but this is unreliable"