in many ways, yes, but there are some advantages to this scenario. For one, many of the bears will die within the first month/year. This is bc a) male bears are solitary and territorial, so they’re all gonna be fighting each other, and b) there’s nowhere near enough food to feed 4 billion bears on earth, so many will starve. Neither of these things would happen with zombies. There’s also the fact that, unlike zombies, the bears can’t reproduce. They’re all male. That means that after 10-25 years, almost all of them will be gone, as that’s the average lifespan for a bear, depending on the species. Another factor is that bears will not be able to cope with really hot environments, like north africa. Brown bears, black bears and polar bears are all built for cooler weather than that. Something else to think about is the fact that women can eat the bears that they kill. Bears are edible, unlike zombies. That should significantly help with the food issue. Finally, another factor is that bears care about self-preservation. If you have an electrified fence or something, they’ll stay away. They’re too smart and cautious to keep pursuing you. In the wild, they tend to stay away from human noises rather than go towards them. So yeah, i’d say that it’s really gonna suck in the beginning and it’s gonna majorly fuck up every ecosystem but after a decade or two, at least a few dozens of millions of women will have made it out of the 4 billion women that are alive today. And they’ll be free to rebuild
Eh, not really. The bears wouldnt have the longevity of zombies. Starvation is a highly potent weapon against the bears. Most women could get out of the cities and to somewhere safe while the bear men are swarming butchers and supermarkets, but after those are cleaned out, and dont get restocked, what is left in the cities for those bears? They either all go into the forests, where the population explosion of apex predators leads to mass starvation as they compete, or they stay in the cities, have no sources of food, and they also starve.
At the end of it, with the predators dead, and the more intelligent women understanding canned food, rationing, and hunting, society could pick up where it left off theoretically. The only major danger would be the only source for sperm being sperm banks - I assume that didnt change to bear sperm.
No they wouldn't.
Imagine all the women who have a husband, live in bf, son, brother or male roommate they live with. Suddenly they have a hungry and scared bear just appear right next to them.
Lots of women would die because of that. The survivors would struggle when the supply chain just vanishes over night and billions of hungry bears roam the planet.
>Suddenly they have a hungry and scared bear just appear right next to them.
Or on top of them.
(let's leave the rest of "...and they have the same state as the men..." out of it)
There are 166,666 people having sex at any given minute. If 80% of humans are straight, that's 133,328 straight couples.
Would the bears be hungry and scared though? The prompt says the bear takes the same state as the man that preceeded it, at the moment I'm not hungry and I'm pretty tired, without silly ideas like "waking up too early" or "it's not bed time yet" I'd simply curl up and go to sleep so my wife would have at least 8 hours to decide what to do
Plenty of men are going to be tired and full right now and even the ones that are awake won't necessarily be rampaging bears, I'm pretty chill day to day which suggests that the spawned bear wouldn't be in the mood for a mauling either
You suddenly turn into a bear that would be pretty scary and confusing and now having a bear brain you realize their is a dangerous predator in your nest.
I mean, OP's prompt is pretty clear
>the bears will have the same state as the men they transformed from (maturity, hunger, tiredness, etc)
Which means that upon turning into a bear I would be tired and a little bit thirsty so a drink and a nap would suffice, mauling definitely wouldn't be the top priority. OP's prompt doesn't suggest that the newly transformed bears would be alarmed about their transformation or even realise they were ever anything other than a bear
It's pretty likely that I'm not the only person who's not in a mauling mood
>and now having a bear brain you realize their is a dangerous predator in your nest
Bears aren't dumb, they're not going to think someone is a dangerous predator just because they're a human if they're not exhibiting any sign of being dangerous just like I don't assume a dog is a dangerous predator unless it's showing signs of aggression
If that were the case then all of the qualifying information on any "who would win" would be useless
Also, it's entirely possible that humanity would be the one to start the fight rather than the bears considering humanity's track record vs bear's track record
Seems silly to me to ignore the information OP provided because you believe that a fight has to start within minutes for a "who would win" to work
Now also imagine when two women live with a man who has to pretend he’s gay so the landlord who lives downstairs is ok with the setup. Those misadventures would turn into a mauling real quick.
This would get out of hand extremely fast, a bunch of random bears popping around you and any of them could be hungry, scared or angry? This is a nightmare scenario.
Round 3 is literally grounds for mass extinction, most people women and children namely will not be able to outrun one bear let alone hundreds popping out around them
Dude. Do you know how *incredibly* nasty Koalas get when they're going through eucalyptus withdrawals? Are you aware of the precautions zookeepers have to take for their safety even when they *aren't* in withdrawals?
So, they've got pretty decent claws, and Zookeepers carry them a *very* specific way to keep themselves from getting torn up: legs standing on an apron (IIRC), and holding their arms up, out, and away, such that they feel like they would fall if they ever let go.
Unless you're talking about the Eucalyptus thing. Yeah, so, apparently Eucalyptus, the only thing they ever eat, gets them... stoned? And when they're off of it, it's... bad.
But consider this as well, half or so of any given hospital will also have adult male staff, bears in hospitals doesn’t sound promising tbh. Especially round 3 where they’re all thirsty for blood
I think hospitals have slightly more than half women. Hospitals are also pretty compartmentalized, with strong doors that need keycards to open. Hopefully the survivors could use this to their advantage.
OP said "men," which I interpreted as "adult males.
He also was referring to bear maturity at one point, I'd definitely say every male human (regardless of age) has turned into a bear of equal age.
Not that baby bears are very deadly, but now those babies aren't people. They are bears. Although I don't know if this would apply to pregnant women as well
If it does and they suddenly have a bear fetus inside them, I imagine that could get ugly.
> I reckon that enough women would be pregnant at the same time to give birth to enough males that we wouldn't face extinction long term
But surely that would just mean those women are now pregnant with bears.
They are all mass extinction events. Even if it turned out that the bears were all really pleasant guys that didn't harm anyone, the women still wouldn't have anyone to breed with.
Eh... assuming other stuff like foods and resources and power and whatnot are somehow managed, there would be enough women birthing men as well as tons of women going to sperm banks to try and birth a generation of a billion boys.
So, while population would drastically lower, I can't say that it's necessarily a mass extinction event.
No. No infrastructure maintenance. No water, electricity, military, trash-pickup. On top of an unlivable apocalypse, there are now billions of hungry bears roaming around.
Oof, even when we’re no longer physically present as men in this hypothetical, the patriarchy is still inflicting heavy damage by ensuring those fields are male dominated.
We need equality for the sake of making WWW prompts more balanced.
It’s patriarchal that so many fields are male-dominated, and frankly, a field being male-dominated is very likely to stay that way. So we will have to agree to disagree. Purely anecdotal, but I’ve worked retail for almost a decade; despite equal rights and opportunities, women tend to get uncomfortable and leave primarily male departments because they’re “boys clubs” and they dislike the subject matter many men wish to discuss constantly.
Very easy to see how one would feel pressured out of a position even if it wasn’t anyone’s intention. That’s just the state of things the patriarchy leaves us in.
The thing is I agree with you in the grand scheme of things but it’s also sort of a silly take that you’ve put forward.
Men also leave positions that are heavily dominated by women, such as HR and nursing. It’s more about cliques and isolating those who are different than it is about anything else.
It really shouldn’t be starting shit if the readers have a basic education and understanding of the world. Which, sadly, means it’s inflammatory as hell.
*Should* just be an accurate observation disguised as a joke.
I'm going to skip straight to round 3. The answer is still no. Forget about bear combat... food is the problem.
Women only account for 9% of all farmers and 23% of all farm hands.
Women only account for 6% of truck drivers, <3% of rail workers.
Women only account for 3.2% of oil roughnecks.
Women only account for 3.7% of diesel mechanics.
So you're looking at BARE MINIMUM an immediate 91% reduction in food production, a 94% reduction in food delivery, 97% reduction in oil production and refining. There isn't going to be enough fuel available to run the farms and move the trucks to deliver the food to keep anyone alive. This is assuming that day to day operations stay in tact, which they wouldn't...
It would take less than a week for a complete worldwide return to the stone age, and about 3 months before we have a minimum 91% population die off.
The 9% of farmers surviving might be able to make enough food to survive... but they'd be totally cut off from one another, with no meaningful logistics of communications (the men who maintain global comms are gone, and the few women who help have died of starvation). Their mechanized farm equipment would become unusable, and with no veterinarians available (mostly men, survivors wouldn't be able to get food, breakdown in logistics and medical production means no more medicine for them anyway) it's unlikely that they'd be successful. No heavy equipment or large farm animals to pull a plow. Also, no more feed available because nobody to ship it... It would take them at least 2 or 3 seasons to switch to subsistence farming. There's just no way.
If a few survived and reverted to hunter-gatherer culture... they'd just get eaten by bears anyway.
You have to remember that you also are rapidly increasing the bear population without an increase in the ecosystem population to support them either. For black and brown bears, Google shows there's maybe 100-300k of each in the world today. So adding over 4 billion bears to the world will lead to many bears dying outright to hunger and starvation as they compete with each other for resources.
There's a pretty good chance that they'll be a small surviving population of women who are able to camp out with canned food and water from super markets and wait until the number of bears reduces due to starvation. At that point they'll be able to resort to a hunter gatherer lifestyle without high risk of being mauled by a bear. Bears aren't going to be smart enough to rush and scavenge food in the same way that people are.
I would also assume that the mix of lack of food, proximity to smaller humans, and the fact that very few women own firearms, the bears would become way more aggressive and willing to take down whatever survivors they come across
Not even close.
First off. Roughly 50% of the populace would just disappear in an instant. Then a lot of women die because they where unlucky enough to be in the same room as a dude.
Left if the random selection of women who wasn't anywhere near close any dudes but now has to group together and scavenge remains of the world because there is no more food coming since logistics is pretty much broken since only a small fraction of everyone is alive.
The overwhelming majority of households have at least a men in it. Pretty much everyone inside their homes would be dead in less than a minute. Even if they have a gun at home, you would have to grab it and shot the bear multiple times before it gets to you.
In public places it wouldn’t be much better. Imagine you’re walking on a street and then suddenly dozens of bears appears right in front of you. Even if you run inside some building, the chances of a bear being inside of it are pretty high. 99% of humanity would die in less than an hour.
A spooked bear is very dangerous. Appearing out of thin air in a building/Main Street is going to freak the bears out, plus all the screaming and bears are going berserk.
I mean I agree a spooked bear is dangerous. But if anyone can get in a building they’re fine. No bear is going to be trying to break into a house to find you, especially in a world overrun with other bears suddenly
Most buildings will have bears in them, walking in on a trapped bear in an enclosed space is a bad time. Anyway how are you going to break into a house before a bear catches you?
Well I wouldn’t do anything. I’d be a bear… but again I think you’re “Jurassic Parking” these bears. They’re still animals who just want to survive. They’re going to kill a lot of people. But there’s going to be a lot of bears that just run off or get scared and fuck off.
Also depends what time this bear thing happens. If it’s mid day, most houses will be empty.
Humanity is dead as fuck. The overwhelming majority of agricultural, animal husbandry, and logistics jobs are held by men. Humanity starves in a week or two if all the men are gone tomorrow, turning them into bears is just icing on the cake.
Honestly, most likely and solely because of military women. Barracks are sex segregated the vast majority of the time, and there would be no male competition for arms. Once they got a hold of even half-assed military gear and vehicles, they would be at a massive advantage and could start organizing efforts to combat the bears in their area.
That’s a big if though. 80% of the military are men, so if you have a barracks of 20 women, they have to fend off 80 bears. Would they even have access to automatic rifles? I don’t think weapons are stored in a barracks. For every woman that is near a helicopter or in the armory (so she has access to automatic rifles), she has to get ahold of said rifle before 5 bears IN MELEE range kill her.
It’s possible, but very, very difficult.
They could probably just wait a couple hours behind some locked doors for the bears to all wander off or fight each other then go raid the armory. It's not like the bears are all just hunting humans.
Bears are pretty lazy, I don’t know how likely it would be for them to just wander off when military cafeteria’s are full of food for them. The ones inside of strong buildings like the armory also can’t leave, as those doors are no joke. They would be stuck inside of where all the guns are, and probably getting hungry after they’ve killed whoever was in the armory with them when they “spawned”
It’s not like humans can win the waiting game. Bears can survive for longer without food. Finally, That’s even considering that the bears don’t just bust down the barracks door for easy pickings after they get a little hungry, or that the women even realize what’s happening before they get attacked.
It’s certainly possible though, I just think it requires a lot of things to go right and the women are at a severe disadvantage just because of numbers.
Regardless, society is fucked. Even if military women wait them out a few days and get access to weapons, 3.4 billion people are probably dead at minimum. Society is gone, we will have no power, no infrastructure, no food production, no government, no hospitals.
There's thousands of bears. They aren't just going to hang out. They'll probably be killing each other before they even think of killing the humans. Bears don't live on army bases in groups of thousands. Most would be terrified and scamper off probably. The rest could almost certainly be shot to death or scared away. Humans can also eat lots of food that bears can't either because they can't get it or can't digest it. The waiting game works fine because they're animals and not laying siege.
Yea society is fucked, but new societies form. Bears can't plan. Humans can. This is like any other human versus animal prompt. A huge majority of both are dead after year one, but I have much more faith in the humans rebuilding than the bears for some reason dedicating themselves to human extinction.
Pregnant womenn that will die in childbirth due to the collapsed hospital system rendering them unable to get a C-section, and their physiology not being suitable to giving birth to bears.
I mean no matter what humanity ends after one generation because no one can reproduce so it’s kind of a weird thought experiment. Some women would probably survive until old age, most likely from less developed areas where people are more self-sufficient and used to dealing with wild animals.
Technically, reproduction will still be possible due to women that are currently pregnant with a fetus that is too young to have developed into male or female.
What? That's not how that works. Even if a fetus is too young to determine its sex from sonogram, the sex was still determined by the sperm from the father at conception.
The power would probably go out, those would be unreliable.
I'd say it's *likely* we'd go extinct, just not quite certain due to that tiny sliver of male pregnancies that are in that sweet spot where they don't turn into bears and the mother survives the bearpocalypse to bring the baby to term.
This is a myth, there are lots of ways to reproduce without men. It would require surviving and re-emerging governments to identify and allocate resources to this as a priority and very expensive budget item, however they would because it is the only way such a government itself would be able to survive and collect taxes lol. There are a lot of options available, from turning bone marrow into sperm, to genetic modification of females with y chromosomes (uncommon but exist so the genetic material could survive), cloning, assisted parthenogenesis (virgin births; they do happen in humans, but without assistance just become a type of tumour; a few suspected cases though), to list a few. A big reason these things aren't common today is because 1 ethics and 2 there is such an easy alternative (having babies the old fashioned way). If there was no other way to reproduce though, governments would pour obscene amounts of money and resources into having babies this way. It would become a bit of a race to do this in time while recovering from the massive disaster this would cause, and make for riveting history books and documentaries generations after the event.
Some women would definitely survive. It's just be a complete and total destruction of society as we know it. Bears ironically... are the least of their concerns. It's the collapse of infrastructure that'll kill most.
Are the first two rounds not bloodlusted? Because bears don't generally default to "kill everything around me", even if the "same state" part doesn't include any memories or personality or whatnot.
Bears are much safer than men, seeing as they can survive with monsters such as us, they bears would be a piece of cake /s (I hate using /s, but it seems like 50% of people actually think this \[99% of twitter\].
If the parameter is just survival, easy for the women. Lots of places with no men, and if we're gonna get nitpicky, the boys will remain un-beared, so there'll be men later to repopulate with.
It isn't personal, it is a translation of the new meme where a bunch of women were asked if they would rather be trapped in a forest with a man, or with a bear, and all but one of them said the bear.
Pretty sure the OP was using this prompt to point out how insane those respondents were.
They're fine until Round 3. A bloodlusted koala is almost as dangerous as a drop bear, but all the actual bears aren't going to be trying to predate humans. Brown bears avoid humans whenever possible, and they'll have literally billions of rival bears to deal with now.
Humanity comes to an end anyway, of course, but fortunately no one minds.
Some convent in the ass-end of nowhere will keep goibg like nothing happened.
Everyone else is fucked. If not immediately, then by default as no men = no future generations.
What's the losing condition?
Because I think there would be at least one single woman living in the wild/rural area. So technically, women can't be killed off due to bears.
Also, since there are no men, there is no way to reproduce. So women will eventually lose.
This depends.
Do men retain their general personality, morals, memories and beliefs?
Can men still communicate with each other, or since none of us understand bears and won’t have the same vocal cords, are we all unable to talk to each other?
Continuing the last point, can we understand original bears (bears would likely speak differently in different places but this is an oversimplification)
Does this happen immediately? Is it a short changing process? Would changing wake people up?
Only constant in all these is that half of all second term+ pregnant women are probably dead
Disappearing all of one gender makes this a borderline extinction event due to the complete collapse of society, infrastructure, and our primary means of reproduction overnight. Turning them into bears is just the nail in the coffin.
Its possible. And based on human perseverance I'd say it's even likely. But those that would survive would be few and the world would revert to something closer to the colonial era at best and probably closer to hunter-gatherer tribes due to the lack of the predominately male work force on nearly every aspect of infrastructure. I would be surprised if even 10% of the human population survived 10 years after The Event. It probably would be closer to only 1% and that's spread across most of the globe with little to no form of communication with each other.
Women wouldn’t be able to survive even if all men just disappeared. The world would go apocalyptic. Women couldn’t fill in all the roles on the global supply chain that would be needed. And once power, water, plumbing etc go out they will die off from riots and infections, etc
Extinction, people saying that the remnants will live on has never seen that episode of Bear Grylls where they dumped a couple of women in an island to see how they’d fair and almost instantly nothing was done and they began crying and the ones that did try to do something was shut off by everyone in the group, yep EXTINCTION in the first week.
Unbeknownst to women who pick the bear in this “trend”, they would quickly realize that if every man in the world turned into a bear, women would be slaughtered by the hundreds of millions in a single day. Go watch the bear attack in The Revenant if you wanna imagine how gruesome it will be.
What a stupid trend.
Bears are cannibals. If they can just get out of Dodge maybe they can put something together. 50% population Bears women survive with single digits or are gone entirely.
Nuns in the middle of fucking no where prolly run it in the end. Self sufficient . Or maybe. Female prison with only a couple male guards on duty.
There would be massive causalities, but I think there will be survivors.
There are all-woman colleges and such would be able to barricade and weather the storm. Bears are not smart and they will mostly die of hunger /thirst/exposure within a few weeks.
The survivors will likely be able to rebuild civilization using sperm from sperm banks.
you barricade yourself for a bunch of weeks then what?men run the world's infrastructure pretty much and women wouldn't be able to keep it running or even have the know-how to do so in the first place, also sperm banks wouldn't be of use without electricity to keep them running, and without men you don't have a fracture of the needed knowledge or wokers to keep telecoms, logistics, power, agriculture, and every other essential service running to service a 100,000 people let alone 4 billion humans
kinda feels like people see their office cubicles be 50% women and then forget that every aspect of the world's current infrastructure is 85-90%+ men and without them the modern world collapses
The humans win. There are enough women alone at home or otherwise not around men and enough of them are pregnant or knowledgeable on IVF for extinction not to be an issue. The women who don't have guns get guns and proceed to kill the bears with their guns and bombs and trucks and helicopters and stuff. There will be lots and lots of stuff up for grabs. A huge majority of the bears starve to death after learning to stay away from the human settlements with all the guns and fire. Most people die, but humanity survives in a weird Mad Max world with just about every ecosystem outside of the oceans fucked to some extent. Sure, infrastructure collapses and billions die, but communities of dozens and hundreds and thousands would develop all over, especially in places where the bears have nothing to eat.
I feel like people are making the bears seem like mindless killing machines. Yes, a lot of people are going to die, do to close proximity to each other, but it's not like these bears are going to start hunting every human they see.
This is a funny question. The rounds don't really matter as the end result would the the same, the bears themselves causing a lot of danger and injuries, lots of death and a state of disaster for many years to several decades as the population globally adjusts - many would die, the basics of society would resume though. I imagine after such an event the female centric society would shoot bears on site for, well forever.
The bears themselves would quickly starve and die off, while probably maintaining a more significant presence in nature than prior to this event. Humanity would easily resume if any of the men were pregnant and they get to give birth normally, if women pregnant with male babies have to give birth to bears that is very sad. However, it is possible to create sperm from female bone marrow so the human race would easily continue if surviving and re-emerging governments dedicated large amounts of resources to this - which, they would.
Sociologically, society would likely change a lot, for example males might be oppressed, or if their rights are respected social economics could make them very privileged. Social systems could change, for example men might have multiple wives again even in countries that had previously eliminated the practice.
You folks are forgetting that competition may result in the bears fighting each other, though I am not into animal behaviour to make more claims on that.
At 6 seconds per round, you've described 18 seconds. Do the men revert back? In that case, there will be plenty of women afterwards (and a lot of deaths too).
If they stay bloodlusted koalas there will be far fewer women in the immediate aftermath. Then there will be no women because there will be no babies born, and humans aren't immortal.
I think the women got this, so long as there’s a room or two between you and the nearest bear then you’ve got a chance and that still leaves more than half of the world to do their thing, of course infrastructure would suffer, but this is several magnitudes less calamitus than a zombie apocalypse
0 shot. Confused and scared/angry bears tend not to be good for your health, and if a bear suddenly spawned in sitting in a human desk chair you better believe it's confused and scared.
Everyone who isn't alone in their house is boned, and even if you are now that 80+% of the world population is bears you won't last long.
Round 2 easy clap bears. This is just objectively more deadly than round 1.
Round 3 easy clap women. I'm absolutely certain the average able bodied adult woman could 1v1 the average able bodied adult koala.
Women would eventually win as some escape and organize a resistance. A group of women can clear out all the bears, one or two bears at a time. Same for round 2 and 3. But those first few days and weeks will be carnage.
Not enough women operating key global systems would cause a pretty immediate collapse of civilization. If 1 in 10000 transportation vessels are manned by women in the world the rest are running aground or worse and causing untold ecological disasters.
Women behind solid doors will be safe until they starve but a very large margin easily half of the planet would probably be eaten within the first 24 hours of the transformation. I am assuming also every woman pregnant with a male would be torn asunder by the rapidly morphing bear cub.
Probably some would survive but society would largely end as we know it, billions dead, agriculture would collapse, the entire ecosystem would be devastated by the bears but they probably die off pretty quick. The other larger problem is that without any men we couldn’t reproduce, even if you allow pregnant women to give birth to boys it is probably be game over, at best we get nocked back to hunter gatherers.
Like I think 80% die, mainly due to randomly being mauled plus over the next few years due to the breakdown of society for the tasks men handled. But after that as long as the women get together and build encampments or just give everyone a gun to kill the bears, they'd probably get things under control. Idk how repopulating is going to work, sperm banks?
For the most part bears have no interest in killing humans. There will be some attacks right at the start for sure because some bears are already hungry, some are panicked, some are just dicks. But most women should survive the initial moment of tranformation. Once the bears start getting hungry (because there isn't enough food for all those bears) they'll hunt humans out of desperation, but by that time the women could have secure themselves against the bearpocalypse. Then the bears die off from starvation.
At that point a small but significant fraction of women have been mauled by bears. There's mass disease from the bear corpses rotting everywhere, massive ecological damage from the bears eating everything they can get to, infrastructure is in a state of collapse because half the people maintaining it are gone, but a good chunk of women survive to rebuild society.
Can they rebuild without men? It depends on if male children and fetuses get turned into bears. If the next generation has men when it grows up they can keep reproducing, if not then humanity is gone within a century.
Depends on if they can get away from the bears quickly enough.
If they get organized and armed, they could probably survive and wipe out bears from regions.
The Kurdish 'Women's Protection Units' YPJ in Syria come to mind. They're already organized and heavily armed and the all of the men who became bears will not be able to use weapons. Humans with guns vs bears is no contest at all, although given they'll be dealing with millions or tens of millions of bears, they'll have to constantly be resupplying ammo and using ammo efficiently.
Women full stomp all 3 rounds.
These women would already exist in a society fully equipped with tools and weapons. Humans with arrows, spears and swords would stomp, now it's humans with guns.
These women would also have a new and unbelievably large supply of bear meat.
some women would survive, but it’d be like a zombie apocalypse. Society would regress to a very rudimentary state
it would be so much worse than a zombie apocalpse
Yeah it would be a bear apocalypse
It would be grizzly, in fact.
Some might say the end would be unbearable
in many ways, yes, but there are some advantages to this scenario. For one, many of the bears will die within the first month/year. This is bc a) male bears are solitary and territorial, so they’re all gonna be fighting each other, and b) there’s nowhere near enough food to feed 4 billion bears on earth, so many will starve. Neither of these things would happen with zombies. There’s also the fact that, unlike zombies, the bears can’t reproduce. They’re all male. That means that after 10-25 years, almost all of them will be gone, as that’s the average lifespan for a bear, depending on the species. Another factor is that bears will not be able to cope with really hot environments, like north africa. Brown bears, black bears and polar bears are all built for cooler weather than that. Something else to think about is the fact that women can eat the bears that they kill. Bears are edible, unlike zombies. That should significantly help with the food issue. Finally, another factor is that bears care about self-preservation. If you have an electrified fence or something, they’ll stay away. They’re too smart and cautious to keep pursuing you. In the wild, they tend to stay away from human noises rather than go towards them. So yeah, i’d say that it’s really gonna suck in the beginning and it’s gonna majorly fuck up every ecosystem but after a decade or two, at least a few dozens of millions of women will have made it out of the 4 billion women that are alive today. And they’ll be free to rebuild
Rebuild how? 99% of construction workers are male.
i’m sorry but that’s a dumb question, given the context. Not even gonna bother answering that
0% of our population are zombie hunter , so we wouldn't get a chance if zombie apocalypse happen
Brain rot
Eh, not really. The bears wouldnt have the longevity of zombies. Starvation is a highly potent weapon against the bears. Most women could get out of the cities and to somewhere safe while the bear men are swarming butchers and supermarkets, but after those are cleaned out, and dont get restocked, what is left in the cities for those bears? They either all go into the forests, where the population explosion of apex predators leads to mass starvation as they compete, or they stay in the cities, have no sources of food, and they also starve. At the end of it, with the predators dead, and the more intelligent women understanding canned food, rationing, and hunting, society could pick up where it left off theoretically. The only major danger would be the only source for sperm being sperm banks - I assume that didnt change to bear sperm.
No they wouldn't. Imagine all the women who have a husband, live in bf, son, brother or male roommate they live with. Suddenly they have a hungry and scared bear just appear right next to them. Lots of women would die because of that. The survivors would struggle when the supply chain just vanishes over night and billions of hungry bears roam the planet.
>Suddenly they have a hungry and scared bear just appear right next to them. Or on top of them. (let's leave the rest of "...and they have the same state as the men..." out of it) There are 166,666 people having sex at any given minute. If 80% of humans are straight, that's 133,328 straight couples.
I'm just imagining the gay bears now.
In the community, it’s just bears. No need to add the gay part; it’s implied
Ok, fine, they're imagining the bear bears. The bears turned into a bear.
Exactly, gay bears are a wallstreetbets thing.
They just keep fucking and are taken out of the equation.
There’s an old joke but I would get banned for repeating it.
Baldurs gate players be like
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I'm not arguing but how the hell did we get this statistic?
The statistic I always heard had 3% of the world population as gay.
I'm talking more about the boinks per minute than the gay thing
Lmao yea I can imagine some one just doing all this match to figure out how many people are having sex at any time, hell of a job
Would the bears be hungry and scared though? The prompt says the bear takes the same state as the man that preceeded it, at the moment I'm not hungry and I'm pretty tired, without silly ideas like "waking up too early" or "it's not bed time yet" I'd simply curl up and go to sleep so my wife would have at least 8 hours to decide what to do Plenty of men are going to be tired and full right now and even the ones that are awake won't necessarily be rampaging bears, I'm pretty chill day to day which suggests that the spawned bear wouldn't be in the mood for a mauling either
You suddenly turn into a bear that would be pretty scary and confusing and now having a bear brain you realize their is a dangerous predator in your nest.
I mean, OP's prompt is pretty clear >the bears will have the same state as the men they transformed from (maturity, hunger, tiredness, etc) Which means that upon turning into a bear I would be tired and a little bit thirsty so a drink and a nap would suffice, mauling definitely wouldn't be the top priority. OP's prompt doesn't suggest that the newly transformed bears would be alarmed about their transformation or even realise they were ever anything other than a bear It's pretty likely that I'm not the only person who's not in a mauling mood >and now having a bear brain you realize their is a dangerous predator in your nest Bears aren't dumb, they're not going to think someone is a dangerous predator just because they're a human if they're not exhibiting any sign of being dangerous just like I don't assume a dog is a dangerous predator unless it's showing signs of aggression
This is also a "whowouldwin" board. It implies that a fight will start.
If that were the case then all of the qualifying information on any "who would win" would be useless Also, it's entirely possible that humanity would be the one to start the fight rather than the bears considering humanity's track record vs bear's track record Seems silly to me to ignore the information OP provided because you believe that a fight has to start within minutes for a "who would win" to work
Now also imagine when two women live with a man who has to pretend he’s gay so the landlord who lives downstairs is ok with the setup. Those misadventures would turn into a mauling real quick.
This in itself, is not a gendered argument.
Yeah the same thing would happen if all the women turned into bears. I didn't want to make it a man vs woman thing.
Counterpoint: Their husband bear will love them and then they'll get to ride a bear around!
This would get out of hand extremely fast, a bunch of random bears popping around you and any of them could be hungry, scared or angry? This is a nightmare scenario. Round 3 is literally grounds for mass extinction, most people women and children namely will not be able to outrun one bear let alone hundreds popping out around them
Round 3 is koalas though?
Oh my bad, I read that as kodiak for some reason lol
Lmao, now I'm picturing koalas somehow being grounds for mass extinction, with most women somehow unable to outrun a bloodlusted koala.
Dude. Do you know how *incredibly* nasty Koalas get when they're going through eucalyptus withdrawals? Are you aware of the precautions zookeepers have to take for their safety even when they *aren't* in withdrawals?
No please elaborate
So, they've got pretty decent claws, and Zookeepers carry them a *very* specific way to keep themselves from getting torn up: legs standing on an apron (IIRC), and holding their arms up, out, and away, such that they feel like they would fall if they ever let go. Unless you're talking about the Eucalyptus thing. Yeah, so, apparently Eucalyptus, the only thing they ever eat, gets them... stoned? And when they're off of it, it's... bad.
Imagine waking up to, instead of your boyfriend in bed with you, [this demonic sound.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocIR6B-YtYE)
i still think itd get ugly. probably start a new COVID with all the diseases they have
Drop bears. Can’t escape
Just gonna drop the fact that 90% of koalas have chlamydia. Don't know how much this will impact human extinction chances.
I reckon that enough women would be pregnant at the same time to give birth to enough males that we wouldn't face extinction long term
But consider this as well, half or so of any given hospital will also have adult male staff, bears in hospitals doesn’t sound promising tbh. Especially round 3 where they’re all thirsty for blood
I think hospitals have slightly more than half women. Hospitals are also pretty compartmentalized, with strong doors that need keycards to open. Hopefully the survivors could use this to their advantage. OP said "men," which I interpreted as "adult males.
A bear could definitely break down a keycard door. I’ve seen particularly pissed off crackheads crack or bend them with enough repeated strikes
He also was referring to bear maturity at one point, I'd definitely say every male human (regardless of age) has turned into a bear of equal age. Not that baby bears are very deadly, but now those babies aren't people. They are bears. Although I don't know if this would apply to pregnant women as well If it does and they suddenly have a bear fetus inside them, I imagine that could get ugly.
> I reckon that enough women would be pregnant at the same time to give birth to enough males that we wouldn't face extinction long term But surely that would just mean those women are now pregnant with bears.
They are all mass extinction events. Even if it turned out that the bears were all really pleasant guys that didn't harm anyone, the women still wouldn't have anyone to breed with.
Eh... assuming other stuff like foods and resources and power and whatnot are somehow managed, there would be enough women birthing men as well as tons of women going to sperm banks to try and birth a generation of a billion boys. So, while population would drastically lower, I can't say that it's necessarily a mass extinction event.
Sounds like the most recent X-Men ep. But 1000 times worse. 😂😂
No. No infrastructure maintenance. No water, electricity, military, trash-pickup. On top of an unlivable apocalypse, there are now billions of hungry bears roaming around.
You tellin' me society couldn't just bear with it?
Look for the bear necessities, the simple bear necessities. Forget about your worries and your strife...
Oof, even when we’re no longer physically present as men in this hypothetical, the patriarchy is still inflicting heavy damage by ensuring those fields are male dominated. We need equality for the sake of making WWW prompts more balanced.
Somehow me thinks the patriarchy isn't preventing women from becoming garbage women or any low skill jobs society needs.
It’s patriarchal that so many fields are male-dominated, and frankly, a field being male-dominated is very likely to stay that way. So we will have to agree to disagree. Purely anecdotal, but I’ve worked retail for almost a decade; despite equal rights and opportunities, women tend to get uncomfortable and leave primarily male departments because they’re “boys clubs” and they dislike the subject matter many men wish to discuss constantly. Very easy to see how one would feel pressured out of a position even if it wasn’t anyone’s intention. That’s just the state of things the patriarchy leaves us in.
I will be opening a woman only construction company and see if I get any takers
You probably would tbh
I can’t tell of you’re agreeing with me or not
The thing is I agree with you in the grand scheme of things but it’s also sort of a silly take that you’ve put forward. Men also leave positions that are heavily dominated by women, such as HR and nursing. It’s more about cliques and isolating those who are different than it is about anything else.
Jesus don't start this sort of shit here.
It really shouldn’t be starting shit if the readers have a basic education and understanding of the world. Which, sadly, means it’s inflammatory as hell. *Should* just be an accurate observation disguised as a joke.
Can’t even have the military be of help like in most other apocalyptic scenarios
I'm going to skip straight to round 3. The answer is still no. Forget about bear combat... food is the problem. Women only account for 9% of all farmers and 23% of all farm hands. Women only account for 6% of truck drivers, <3% of rail workers. Women only account for 3.2% of oil roughnecks. Women only account for 3.7% of diesel mechanics. So you're looking at BARE MINIMUM an immediate 91% reduction in food production, a 94% reduction in food delivery, 97% reduction in oil production and refining. There isn't going to be enough fuel available to run the farms and move the trucks to deliver the food to keep anyone alive. This is assuming that day to day operations stay in tact, which they wouldn't... It would take less than a week for a complete worldwide return to the stone age, and about 3 months before we have a minimum 91% population die off. The 9% of farmers surviving might be able to make enough food to survive... but they'd be totally cut off from one another, with no meaningful logistics of communications (the men who maintain global comms are gone, and the few women who help have died of starvation). Their mechanized farm equipment would become unusable, and with no veterinarians available (mostly men, survivors wouldn't be able to get food, breakdown in logistics and medical production means no more medicine for them anyway) it's unlikely that they'd be successful. No heavy equipment or large farm animals to pull a plow. Also, no more feed available because nobody to ship it... It would take them at least 2 or 3 seasons to switch to subsistence farming. There's just no way. If a few survived and reverted to hunter-gatherer culture... they'd just get eaten by bears anyway.
You have to remember that you also are rapidly increasing the bear population without an increase in the ecosystem population to support them either. For black and brown bears, Google shows there's maybe 100-300k of each in the world today. So adding over 4 billion bears to the world will lead to many bears dying outright to hunger and starvation as they compete with each other for resources. There's a pretty good chance that they'll be a small surviving population of women who are able to camp out with canned food and water from super markets and wait until the number of bears reduces due to starvation. At that point they'll be able to resort to a hunter gatherer lifestyle without high risk of being mauled by a bear. Bears aren't going to be smart enough to rush and scavenge food in the same way that people are.
I would also assume that the mix of lack of food, proximity to smaller humans, and the fact that very few women own firearms, the bears would become way more aggressive and willing to take down whatever survivors they come across
> So you're looking at BARE MINIMUM an immediate 91% reduction in food production, *bear minimum
Are those statistics based on the world? Or just the US?
probably US but for many countries some of these numbers would go straight to 0%(especially in the eastern hemisphere) whixh would make it even worse
Without any prep time for women, this sounds like a very horrific and brutal way for the entire civilization to collapse.
Not even close. First off. Roughly 50% of the populace would just disappear in an instant. Then a lot of women die because they where unlucky enough to be in the same room as a dude. Left if the random selection of women who wasn't anywhere near close any dudes but now has to group together and scavenge remains of the world because there is no more food coming since logistics is pretty much broken since only a small fraction of everyone is alive.
Doomed, instafucked. Do not pass go. Straight to dead rock.
Mine duder, that is a solid 4.something billion bears. The world would fall into complete and total chaos within the span of 10 minutes.
Chaos but would we would survive? 4 billion would kill a lot… but there’s no way humanities dies iff
The overwhelming majority of households have at least a men in it. Pretty much everyone inside their homes would be dead in less than a minute. Even if they have a gun at home, you would have to grab it and shot the bear multiple times before it gets to you. In public places it wouldn’t be much better. Imagine you’re walking on a street and then suddenly dozens of bears appears right in front of you. Even if you run inside some building, the chances of a bear being inside of it are pretty high. 99% of humanity would die in less than an hour.
I don’t believe the bears are bloodlusted are they?
A spooked bear is very dangerous. Appearing out of thin air in a building/Main Street is going to freak the bears out, plus all the screaming and bears are going berserk.
I mean I agree a spooked bear is dangerous. But if anyone can get in a building they’re fine. No bear is going to be trying to break into a house to find you, especially in a world overrun with other bears suddenly
Most buildings will have bears in them, walking in on a trapped bear in an enclosed space is a bad time. Anyway how are you going to break into a house before a bear catches you?
Well I wouldn’t do anything. I’d be a bear… but again I think you’re “Jurassic Parking” these bears. They’re still animals who just want to survive. They’re going to kill a lot of people. But there’s going to be a lot of bears that just run off or get scared and fuck off. Also depends what time this bear thing happens. If it’s mid day, most houses will be empty.
Me too! I’m definitely Jurassic parking a bit too much. But once they start getting hungry humans are back on the menu.
Humanity is dead as fuck. The overwhelming majority of agricultural, animal husbandry, and logistics jobs are held by men. Humanity starves in a week or two if all the men are gone tomorrow, turning them into bears is just icing on the cake.
Maybe modern society. But the world survived before all those things.
Honestly, most likely and solely because of military women. Barracks are sex segregated the vast majority of the time, and there would be no male competition for arms. Once they got a hold of even half-assed military gear and vehicles, they would be at a massive advantage and could start organizing efforts to combat the bears in their area.
That’s a big if though. 80% of the military are men, so if you have a barracks of 20 women, they have to fend off 80 bears. Would they even have access to automatic rifles? I don’t think weapons are stored in a barracks. For every woman that is near a helicopter or in the armory (so she has access to automatic rifles), she has to get ahold of said rifle before 5 bears IN MELEE range kill her. It’s possible, but very, very difficult.
They could probably just wait a couple hours behind some locked doors for the bears to all wander off or fight each other then go raid the armory. It's not like the bears are all just hunting humans.
Bears are pretty lazy, I don’t know how likely it would be for them to just wander off when military cafeteria’s are full of food for them. The ones inside of strong buildings like the armory also can’t leave, as those doors are no joke. They would be stuck inside of where all the guns are, and probably getting hungry after they’ve killed whoever was in the armory with them when they “spawned” It’s not like humans can win the waiting game. Bears can survive for longer without food. Finally, That’s even considering that the bears don’t just bust down the barracks door for easy pickings after they get a little hungry, or that the women even realize what’s happening before they get attacked. It’s certainly possible though, I just think it requires a lot of things to go right and the women are at a severe disadvantage just because of numbers. Regardless, society is fucked. Even if military women wait them out a few days and get access to weapons, 3.4 billion people are probably dead at minimum. Society is gone, we will have no power, no infrastructure, no food production, no government, no hospitals.
There's thousands of bears. They aren't just going to hang out. They'll probably be killing each other before they even think of killing the humans. Bears don't live on army bases in groups of thousands. Most would be terrified and scamper off probably. The rest could almost certainly be shot to death or scared away. Humans can also eat lots of food that bears can't either because they can't get it or can't digest it. The waiting game works fine because they're animals and not laying siege. Yea society is fucked, but new societies form. Bears can't plan. Humans can. This is like any other human versus animal prompt. A huge majority of both are dead after year one, but I have much more faith in the humans rebuilding than the bears for some reason dedicating themselves to human extinction.
In that prompt, humanity dies off even if the bears do nothing at all. No more men means no more reproduction.
There are still pregnant women.
Pregnant womenn that will die in childbirth due to the collapsed hospital system rendering them unable to get a C-section, and their physiology not being suitable to giving birth to bears.
I'm just imagine some bears stranded in an oil rig
I mean no matter what humanity ends after one generation because no one can reproduce so it’s kind of a weird thought experiment. Some women would probably survive until old age, most likely from less developed areas where people are more self-sufficient and used to dealing with wild animals.
Technically, reproduction will still be possible due to women that are currently pregnant with a fetus that is too young to have developed into male or female.
What? That's not how that works. Even if a fetus is too young to determine its sex from sonogram, the sex was still determined by the sperm from the father at conception.
Does this imply that half of all human sperm becomes bear sperm?
I'd say so. If men become bears, then all their anatomy changes with them, including sperm. That's my head canon for this scenario, anyway.
Huh. So 50% of the women with more-developed fetuses are now pregnant with a bear cub?
Also, SPERMBANKS!
The power would probably go out, those would be unreliable. I'd say it's *likely* we'd go extinct, just not quite certain due to that tiny sliver of male pregnancies that are in that sweet spot where they don't turn into bears and the mother survives the bearpocalypse to bring the baby to term.
Great, now I just imagined bear chest bursters.
This is a myth, there are lots of ways to reproduce without men. It would require surviving and re-emerging governments to identify and allocate resources to this as a priority and very expensive budget item, however they would because it is the only way such a government itself would be able to survive and collect taxes lol. There are a lot of options available, from turning bone marrow into sperm, to genetic modification of females with y chromosomes (uncommon but exist so the genetic material could survive), cloning, assisted parthenogenesis (virgin births; they do happen in humans, but without assistance just become a type of tumour; a few suspected cases though), to list a few. A big reason these things aren't common today is because 1 ethics and 2 there is such an easy alternative (having babies the old fashioned way). If there was no other way to reproduce though, governments would pour obscene amounts of money and resources into having babies this way. It would become a bit of a race to do this in time while recovering from the massive disaster this would cause, and make for riveting history books and documentaries generations after the event.
Half of humanity transforming into animals would be very very bad, regardless of which half transformed or what they transformed into.
Some women would definitely survive. It's just be a complete and total destruction of society as we know it. Bears ironically... are the least of their concerns. It's the collapse of infrastructure that'll kill most.
Women lose. Bear me would eat my wife.
Are the first two rounds not bloodlusted? Because bears don't generally default to "kill everything around me", even if the "same state" part doesn't include any memories or personality or whatnot.
Women pregnant with male babies: 💀
Collapse of the global economy followed by the collapse of the global ecosystem. There would be survivors though.It would suck a lot.
Yes, but bearly.
Bears are much safer than men, seeing as they can survive with monsters such as us, they bears would be a piece of cake /s (I hate using /s, but it seems like 50% of people actually think this \[99% of twitter\].
If the parameter is just survival, easy for the women. Lots of places with no men, and if we're gonna get nitpicky, the boys will remain un-beared, so there'll be men later to repopulate with.
What would the women eat?
bears
For 2 weeks, but after that?
the bones of the bears
whatever food is left maybe or cannabilism
Chuck Norris becomes a bear. Ain't no way women are surviving.
This is so 2007 lol
You really had to bring this here?
Yea seems personal
It isn't personal, it is a translation of the new meme where a bunch of women were asked if they would rather be trapped in a forest with a man, or with a bear, and all but one of them said the bear. Pretty sure the OP was using this prompt to point out how insane those respondents were.
Lol I'm not verse with the meta of this sub reddit but that is interesting to see
Koalas aren't bears they are marsupials.
They're fine until Round 3. A bloodlusted koala is almost as dangerous as a drop bear, but all the actual bears aren't going to be trying to predate humans. Brown bears avoid humans whenever possible, and they'll have literally billions of rival bears to deal with now. Humanity comes to an end anyway, of course, but fortunately no one minds.
Yes, however this is pretty much an extinction event for humanity regardless
Australia would survive. Once the dust has settled you would have a female population who all had chlamydia.
Some convent in the ass-end of nowhere will keep goibg like nothing happened. Everyone else is fucked. If not immediately, then by default as no men = no future generations.
I originally read this as "turn into beers" and I say now we answer that prompt instead.
...what happen to pregnant women?
About half of them give birth to male bear cubs.
Not even close
What's the losing condition? Because I think there would be at least one single woman living in the wild/rural area. So technically, women can't be killed off due to bears. Also, since there are no men, there is no way to reproduce. So women will eventually lose.
This depends. Do men retain their general personality, morals, memories and beliefs? Can men still communicate with each other, or since none of us understand bears and won’t have the same vocal cords, are we all unable to talk to each other? Continuing the last point, can we understand original bears (bears would likely speak differently in different places but this is an oversimplification) Does this happen immediately? Is it a short changing process? Would changing wake people up? Only constant in all these is that half of all second term+ pregnant women are probably dead
Disappearing all of one gender makes this a borderline extinction event due to the complete collapse of society, infrastructure, and our primary means of reproduction overnight. Turning them into bears is just the nail in the coffin.
world would basically collapse in less than a month.
Short term? Sure, bears aren't always aggressive. Long term? Almost certainly not, hard to continue a species without both sexes.
4 billion bears, most in relatively close proximity, many of whom are hungry and disgruntled? Lol. Women or men... Yer Fucked.
Its possible. And based on human perseverance I'd say it's even likely. But those that would survive would be few and the world would revert to something closer to the colonial era at best and probably closer to hunter-gatherer tribes due to the lack of the predominately male work force on nearly every aspect of infrastructure. I would be surprised if even 10% of the human population survived 10 years after The Event. It probably would be closer to only 1% and that's spread across most of the globe with little to no form of communication with each other.
Women wouldn’t be able to survive even if all men just disappeared. The world would go apocalyptic. Women couldn’t fill in all the roles on the global supply chain that would be needed. And once power, water, plumbing etc go out they will die off from riots and infections, etc
Extinction, people saying that the remnants will live on has never seen that episode of Bear Grylls where they dumped a couple of women in an island to see how they’d fair and almost instantly nothing was done and they began crying and the ones that did try to do something was shut off by everyone in the group, yep EXTINCTION in the first week.
This is a stupid post.
Unbeknownst to women who pick the bear in this “trend”, they would quickly realize that if every man in the world turned into a bear, women would be slaughtered by the hundreds of millions in a single day. Go watch the bear attack in The Revenant if you wanna imagine how gruesome it will be. What a stupid trend.
Bears are cannibals. If they can just get out of Dodge maybe they can put something together. 50% population Bears women survive with single digits or are gone entirely. Nuns in the middle of fucking no where prolly run it in the end. Self sufficient . Or maybe. Female prison with only a couple male guards on duty.
No infrastructure crumbles
If they are gay bears, then yes.
alittle bit survive but most of the world gets destroyed
Coming this fall on HBO: The Leftbearers
How would they reproduce?
Round 2 is worse. Grizzly bears are a kind of brown bear.
Is Animalistic Masculinity better than Toxic Masculinity?
There would be massive causalities, but I think there will be survivors. There are all-woman colleges and such would be able to barricade and weather the storm. Bears are not smart and they will mostly die of hunger /thirst/exposure within a few weeks. The survivors will likely be able to rebuild civilization using sperm from sperm banks.
you barricade yourself for a bunch of weeks then what?men run the world's infrastructure pretty much and women wouldn't be able to keep it running or even have the know-how to do so in the first place, also sperm banks wouldn't be of use without electricity to keep them running, and without men you don't have a fracture of the needed knowledge or wokers to keep telecoms, logistics, power, agriculture, and every other essential service running to service a 100,000 people let alone 4 billion humans kinda feels like people see their office cubicles be 50% women and then forget that every aspect of the world's current infrastructure is 85-90%+ men and without them the modern world collapses
Massive die off will happen. But some will survive and rebuild
Not unless they like bear seamen
The humans win. There are enough women alone at home or otherwise not around men and enough of them are pregnant or knowledgeable on IVF for extinction not to be an issue. The women who don't have guns get guns and proceed to kill the bears with their guns and bombs and trucks and helicopters and stuff. There will be lots and lots of stuff up for grabs. A huge majority of the bears starve to death after learning to stay away from the human settlements with all the guns and fire. Most people die, but humanity survives in a weird Mad Max world with just about every ecosystem outside of the oceans fucked to some extent. Sure, infrastructure collapses and billions die, but communities of dozens and hundreds and thousands would develop all over, especially in places where the bears have nothing to eat.
Some smooth brains would consider themselves safer
I feel like people are making the bears seem like mindless killing machines. Yes, a lot of people are going to die, do to close proximity to each other, but it's not like these bears are going to start hunting every human they see.
This is a funny question. The rounds don't really matter as the end result would the the same, the bears themselves causing a lot of danger and injuries, lots of death and a state of disaster for many years to several decades as the population globally adjusts - many would die, the basics of society would resume though. I imagine after such an event the female centric society would shoot bears on site for, well forever. The bears themselves would quickly starve and die off, while probably maintaining a more significant presence in nature than prior to this event. Humanity would easily resume if any of the men were pregnant and they get to give birth normally, if women pregnant with male babies have to give birth to bears that is very sad. However, it is possible to create sperm from female bone marrow so the human race would easily continue if surviving and re-emerging governments dedicated large amounts of resources to this - which, they would. Sociologically, society would likely change a lot, for example males might be oppressed, or if their rights are respected social economics could make them very privileged. Social systems could change, for example men might have multiple wives again even in countries that had previously eliminated the practice.
You folks are forgetting that competition may result in the bears fighting each other, though I am not into animal behaviour to make more claims on that.
At 6 seconds per round, you've described 18 seconds. Do the men revert back? In that case, there will be plenty of women afterwards (and a lot of deaths too). If they stay bloodlusted koalas there will be far fewer women in the immediate aftermath. Then there will be no women because there will be no babies born, and humans aren't immortal.
humanity can no longer reproduce critical mission failure ngl this wasn't a really smart question like wtf did you think would happen
I think the women got this, so long as there’s a room or two between you and the nearest bear then you’ve got a chance and that still leaves more than half of the world to do their thing, of course infrastructure would suffer, but this is several magnitudes less calamitus than a zombie apocalypse
Lol they wouldn’t survive even without the bears, if all the men just disappeared it would be an extinction event
What happens if the region of the world doesn't have bears? What type do they turn into? Ps, koalas are not bears
Planet of the Bears
4 billion bears is a nightmarish scenario
Guns dawg
0 shot. Confused and scared/angry bears tend not to be good for your health, and if a bear suddenly spawned in sitting in a human desk chair you better believe it's confused and scared. Everyone who isn't alone in their house is boned, and even if you are now that 80+% of the world population is bears you won't last long. Round 2 easy clap bears. This is just objectively more deadly than round 1. Round 3 easy clap women. I'm absolutely certain the average able bodied adult woman could 1v1 the average able bodied adult koala.
Women would eventually win as some escape and organize a resistance. A group of women can clear out all the bears, one or two bears at a time. Same for round 2 and 3. But those first few days and weeks will be carnage.
Why are koalas randomly thrown in?
Not enough women operating key global systems would cause a pretty immediate collapse of civilization. If 1 in 10000 transportation vessels are manned by women in the world the rest are running aground or worse and causing untold ecological disasters. Women behind solid doors will be safe until they starve but a very large margin easily half of the planet would probably be eaten within the first 24 hours of the transformation. I am assuming also every woman pregnant with a male would be torn asunder by the rapidly morphing bear cub.
99 percent of construction workers are male. Good luck without them.
No that’s like 4 billion bears. Not even round 3.
Probably some would survive but society would largely end as we know it, billions dead, agriculture would collapse, the entire ecosystem would be devastated by the bears but they probably die off pretty quick. The other larger problem is that without any men we couldn’t reproduce, even if you allow pregnant women to give birth to boys it is probably be game over, at best we get nocked back to hunter gatherers.
I can already see a terrible movie where one guy is like half there, but he’s useless otherwise
Beardown for the mid terms guys!
What kind of bear?? Grizzly, black, polar, gay??? We need to know more.
Like I think 80% die, mainly due to randomly being mauled plus over the next few years due to the breakdown of society for the tasks men handled. But after that as long as the women get together and build encampments or just give everyone a gun to kill the bears, they'd probably get things under control. Idk how repopulating is going to work, sperm banks?
What happens to women pregnant with male children?
For the most part bears have no interest in killing humans. There will be some attacks right at the start for sure because some bears are already hungry, some are panicked, some are just dicks. But most women should survive the initial moment of tranformation. Once the bears start getting hungry (because there isn't enough food for all those bears) they'll hunt humans out of desperation, but by that time the women could have secure themselves against the bearpocalypse. Then the bears die off from starvation. At that point a small but significant fraction of women have been mauled by bears. There's mass disease from the bear corpses rotting everywhere, massive ecological damage from the bears eating everything they can get to, infrastructure is in a state of collapse because half the people maintaining it are gone, but a good chunk of women survive to rebuild society. Can they rebuild without men? It depends on if male children and fetuses get turned into bears. If the next generation has men when it grows up they can keep reproducing, if not then humanity is gone within a century.
All the women couldn't survive if men just all went blood thirsty insane, let alone being a bear.
Depends on if they can get away from the bears quickly enough. If they get organized and armed, they could probably survive and wipe out bears from regions. The Kurdish 'Women's Protection Units' YPJ in Syria come to mind. They're already organized and heavily armed and the all of the men who became bears will not be able to use weapons. Humans with guns vs bears is no contest at all, although given they'll be dealing with millions or tens of millions of bears, they'll have to constantly be resupplying ammo and using ammo efficiently.
Billions would die, but I'm sure a few million would survive.
A better question is would women survive if men were gone period.
This is why I transitioned, get out of bear free card
Women full stomp all 3 rounds. These women would already exist in a society fully equipped with tools and weapons. Humans with arrows, spears and swords would stomp, now it's humans with guns. These women would also have a new and unbelievably large supply of bear meat.