It’ll bring you a clarity of mind and a knowledge of complete vulnerability that you can’t really find outside of other imminently life-threatening situations.

Thanks to that experience now you know how women feel very often, sometimes multiple times in the same day. It’s something they learn to live with their whole lives.

It’s not hyperbole. They’re not making light of the danger. When women say “I’d rather meet a bear” they really mean it. It’s the same feeling, but it would happen extremely rarely instead of daily.