you're missing the point. You find bears terrifying because of your encounter. Also, grizzlies are terrifying.
But when you ask people, and many, many say "the man", that tells something about *their experience*. and the fact that really, objectively, meeting a random grizzly is worse than a random man, is not relevant.
Because the point is that a huge fraction of women have horrible experiences with men, and that is how you allow them to express it.
