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You wake up in a bunk bed of a big hall with 149 other women.

All the exits of the hall are guarded by uniformed and masked henchmen carrying large assault rifles.

You are then told by a suit wearing game host that all 150 women present in this hall owes a large debt to their mega-corporation and that in order to alleviate oneself of their debt, they will have to play a survival game of life and death. On top of debt alleviation, all surviving contestants will be sharing a very big prize of 100 million dollars.

You try to argue with the organizers that there's been a mistake, but then they show you on screen the moment that you've clicked 'yes' to 'I have fully read your terms of services' agreement for the software that you thought you bought, but if had read them carefully, you'd know that you only paid for the daily interest on the loan that you've agreed upon that covers the actual price and the term limit on that loan happens to be the same day of the last round of this ten round dystopian survival game.

You are then told that for the first round you will be dropped in the middle of a forest and if you are able to escape the harrowing forest within 15 minutes, you will go to the next round. If not, you will be eliminated from the game.

The organizers won't say what that means, but they will tell you that during this round you are given a choice.

Man vs Bear

Choose man and one of the 150 male contestant sleeping in the other hall will join you in the 'lost in the woods' round, but 3 minutes will be taken off the clock.

Choose bear and one bear of a random species will be released into the woods as a potential obstacle, which is either panda bear, Andean bear, sun bear, moon bear, black bear, brown bear or polar bear.

What will you choose?

I was always told this growing up. I used to believe women understand men better then vice versa. But not anymore.

I believe women understood men better in earlier times out of necessity. They used to depend more on men to provide and protect them. It was important for them to understand men they wanted to get in a relationship with vs. those to avoid.

But in modern times women seem far less concerned about understanding men. Not that I expect them to naturally understand that. But one thing they seem to struggle with is understanding the difference between likeability / attraction vs. respect. Men actually crave respect more then they crave sex, intimacy, etc.

It’s possible to still respect someone even think you don’t like them. It’s about understanding their situation and what they have to deal with. And truly men generally understand this concept far better then women do.

One example is when I broke up with my ex girlfriend. At that point I was no longer attracted her at all. Can’t say I liked her much either. But I still respected her. I knew about her struggles and dreams. That’s why I gave her the respect of sitting down and breaking up face to face. Endured 2 hours of hell (screaming, crying, etc.).

But I don’t regret it. I didn’t fixate on her flaws and chastise her over grudges and things I didn’t like about her to self justify my decision (I’ve had women do that to me when I was dumped). I had enough respect for her that would just add insult to injury.