According to the article she had a man. Just not manly enough to take on a bear.
Since someone else revived this... I'll go ahead and chime in.
I am not manly enough to take on a bear empty-handed. None of us are.
That's why we came up with spears, bows, axes, and firearms.
Then at some point we decided to listen to the weak and fickle amongst us. Hunters/hunting were deemed barbaric and unnecessary... And by extension so were firearms.
100 years ago this would not have been a story. 100 years ago this headline would have made it as far as the local paper and read:
"Local youth takes nice bear while out hiking"
The story above should have been titled:
"Stupid bitch mauled by bear because she was convinced that guns are evil and immoral... So she took a stroll out in nature completely unprepared to tangle with an apex predator."
A while back women made the statement that they would "choose the bear." In typical liberal shortsighted fashion, they failed to consider what happens when the bear chooses them.
Mike
www.dailymail.co.uk
Remember that women can do anything a man can do. 
