JABBA THE BEAR I AM NOT
How did “Bear” become synonymous with any old chubby homosexual? It was not always so. The defining days of the Bear Movement in the 1990s featured plenty of medium to large size men. XXXL was not presumed; it was the exception. The presumption of BEAR=FAT also does not reflect the reality of today’s Bear Movement – only an unfortunate gradual usurpation of the BEAR label over time in the Jungian gay collective unconscious.
However, we can’t kid ourselves any longer. The co-opting of the Bear identity is real....
Part of the cause of the lamentable pendulum swing from Bear to chub is the result of the content of our self-labeled media. Porn studios like Bear Films and CyberBears have spent years flooding the market with chub porn that seems to be allergic to Bears who are physically fit. If the medium is the message, this was a detour way off the scales.
We take a different point of view, and fortunately, the market recognizes that chubs have not completely absorbed Bears. We want Bear media to be prouder, and more masculine... in production choices for our porn lines Butch Bear®, BEAR® and Backroom Films®... we relentlessly deliver underrepresented [LOL -ed.] Bear images of what we want to see: tight, hairy, thrusting meaty muscle instead of jiggly cottage cheese.
Perhaps Yoda said it best, “Size matters not.”... Like Yoda, we believe in aiming for better and not necessarily bigger. So help me Obi-Wan Jack Radcliffe and deliver fit-Bear DVDs, and BEAR® t-shirts and bumper stickers to all my Bear brothers this holiday season – and may the real Bear Force be with you always.
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What's even BETTER is that "editorial" appeared in same issue sent along with the renewal notices to all their initial subscribers.
ReplyDeleteReady! FIRE! aim
That said, however rude and ill-advised, they sort of have a point buried in the drama somewhere.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the two types could be subsets of bear culture, and vendors could cater to whichever group supports them.
The language of this op-ed column is insensitive, for sure.
On the other hand, they have the right to feature what they want to.
That said, they're being exclusive of larger bears while holding onto the label, which is kind of wrong, so maybe they should have changed it to fitBEAR or something if it was such a big deal to them.
In any case, as I understand it, they're no longer around.
I don't think the chub bears and other chubs should necessarily take credit for that, but maybe it was justice. *shrug*