Bears on Bears: Bear Culture

Αντιγράφω από το βιβλίο "Bears on Bears", Ron Jackson Suresha (Alyson Books, 2002):

Camile Paglia quote:
"In their defiant hirsuitism, gay bears are more virile than the generic bubble-butt junior stud, since body hair is stimulated my tostesterone. But bears fatness resembles not the warlike Vikings mass of a Hell's Angel but the capacious bosom of the primal earth mother. The gay bear is silmutaneusly animalistic and nurturing, a romp in the wild followed by nap time on a comfy cushion."

I think Paglia is on to something. Bears defy traditional gender norms even as they affirm aspects of traditional masculinities. We are nurturing and macho at the same time. This is what i find to be radical potential of the bear movement.

She continues: "The Greek style pretty ephebe is a cold visual icon, tauntingly remote and ultimately ungraspable. The bear, however, offers warm, sootheing regression to what Freud calls the polymorphous perverse, the whole-body tactility of early childhood. My working theory is that the gay bear as a sexual persona is a mythic father-mother, a parental fusion like the androgynous Egyptian river god Hapi or the Roman Father Tiber, bearded and jovialy recumbent amid his swarm of rollicking cherubs".

- Ένα ενδιαφέρον κομμάτι για την bear κουλτούρα μπορείτε να διαβάσετε στο μπλογκ του φίλου Thomas Xomeritis

- Επίσης, όσους ενδιαφέρονται για μόδα για αρκούδους, το Απέναντι Πεζοδρόμιο δεν θα τους αφήσει παραπονεμένους.