Letter to the editor: Men, women and grizzly bears

Lori Falce takes the clickbait explaining a social media meme that wastes large amounts of internet bandwith and human intellectual capital (“Men growling over bear question are missing the point,” May 3, TribLive). There’s no lesson to learn from the “man vs. bear” question. She’s not the only woman caught by the trap originally set in an April 25 Washington Post article about the “myth” of California grizzly bears. It claimed new “research” finds they were not the ferocious, bloodthirsty creatures we believe them to be. Seriously?

Masterfully disguised woke “science” blamed white colonialism and European-style farming for turning once gentle herbivores into ravenous meat-eaters. Lacking self-awareness, it laid blame on “greedy newspapers in the east” for publishing fantastic tales from the frontier and “Victorian 19th-century celebrity culture” that painted bears in a bad light. Furthermore, the white settlers’ “annihilation” of the bears met “the legal definition” of genocide, and a tribal chief agreed! How timely and convenient.

This propaganda narrative was designed to support controversial administration plans to reintroduce more grizzly bears into places like Yellowstone. For the left was the added benefit of further fanning flames of division between the sexes. Social media comments are little more than anonymous locker room bravado; those who boast the loudest are rarely seen without their towel.

Friedrich Nietzsche said about the fairer sex, “In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.” Ultimately, women will hold tightly to the arm of a trusted man in the presence of danger. Hopefully he’ll live up to the moment.

Joe Schmidt

Lower Burrell