[Earw0rm]

There's unwanted "I wasn't interested in that person, next", and there's unwanted "this is a potentially dangerous and scary situation". On the surface, it's unhelpful to lump the two in together.

But the line between 1 and 2 is fuzzier for women than for men, hence the "choose the bear" meme. I've received unwanted attention but never felt remotely threatened or endangered by it, you won't hear that from many women though.

And further. When basically everyone had to play the game, the proportion of actual bad actors was small. Lots of "meh, no thanks, next", not much hassle or danger. However. When a lot of milder actors take themselves out of the pool voluntarily (online being satisfactory, or something like that) you end up with a worse ratio. Basically if fewer guys are approaching women full stop, the ones that do are more likely to be trouble of one kind or another.