here since none of you know what a bear is
Srsly thats just a regular hunk. Bear is an important term cos there really wasnât any word for âhandsome heavyset manâ before the LGBT community came along and opened our eyes to the truth. Calling skinny buff dudes bears is like all those douchebros who are like âi want a thicc gorlâ *points to stick thin woman who just has big booby*
THANK you. And originally it DID just mean fat hairy men exclusively, it was only later that âmusclebearsâ became a thing. But Bear was a reaction to the gay male cultureâs obsession with what we now call a twink (which is, to whit: a thin, hairless, youthful man between 18-25), as well as a reaction to the idea that gay men had to be femme in order to be gay, as well as offering body positivity to gay men who were fat, which is an important distinctionâBear Pride is a gay male fat positivity movement/identity, thatâs real important and we gotta not forget that, because that support and representation and pride is a protest against the part of gay culture that toxically commodifies male bodies and demands thinness and hairlessness. /soapbox
anyway i am here for my bear brothers.
now that we know the difference, bears please feel free to send me marriage proposals
what up your local trans bear sharing some background history
Additionally we do have a word for a thin hairy gay guy. Itâs otter. You donât need to steal words from fat people other words already exist
I really thought this was going to have an inspirational ending. And it certainly did.
Some days itâs really hard to express how much I love the internet and all its wonderful random pop culture obsessions.
To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardianâs rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed heâd forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying âif Iâd known you hadnât left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,â then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancÊ, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.
Great work Tumblr
Found the problem boss