Women choose the bear because now they are masculine like men.

The modern woman hates her feminine nature. She rejects her nature and puts on a strap on and says,"Behold. I am equal to man."

However, she is still hardwired to be a women, and a woman's natural state is to be submissive to a dominant role model.

When a woman becomes the man of the house, and becomes as strong as the average man, and as influencial as the powerful man, she can no longer tolerate them, and so must now move towards finding any source of uncontrollable dominance she can, to have something to submit to, as her biology orders her to, irrespective of how many gender studies degrees she holds.

We must also account for the hormone disrupting chemicals in modern day society in use in every day products, which are actively being phased out but have still left a mark on generations of women, resulting in a rise in androgynous women and an increase in testosterone levels in women.

Obesity has also lowered the amount of estrogen produced in a woman's body, further causing her to become more manly. With this environmental and physical degradation combined often resulting in them even developing masculine traits such as armpit hair, mustaches, and an interest in video games.

At first this manly woman crisis resulted in the molestation of labradors across the US, then it moved on to pitbulls as the testosterone in women continued to rise.

Now finally, with women having become more masculine and assertive than even the richest and most powerful of men in the world ( Looking at you Elon ), the only creature left in the world that can satisfy her urges to be put down and dominated is the brown grizzly of the Appalachian trails.

For her the brown bear is not just a sign of safety from man, but a sign of safety from her own insanity and mania, where she can no longer follow the natural path of her bad decisions, finally kept safe from herself by the strength and unbreakable dominance of the bear.

This is the real reason why the average white woman today would rather choose the bear than the man in a forest.