Let me reference a couple of articles I found today.

Calling a Troll a Troll

BEAR | NOT BEAR: WAY TO BE A TROLL, ASSHOLE

I swear to God that I’ve talked about this before.  It sounds so familiar. 

Jabba The Bear Is Still A Bear

Oh yeah, I remember now.  I have this feeling that the creator of Bear | Not Bear, and the editor of Bear Magazine should hook up.  They both seem to have the same stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking, hair brained, bigoted nerf herder ideas of what a bear is.  I’m going to contend yet again that there is no solid definition of a bear.  Most, if not all of the images that appear on Bear | Not Bear are of bears.  He even posted COLTV010: Mr HOT Bear Contest ’09 Part 2.  As there is no contact information for the owner of the site, I have sent the request to the Tumblr Support Team.

This site is as offensive as the Bear Magazine’s editor’s comments on the Bear Community.  Every time I see something like this pop up, I’m infuriated.  This is not how the bear community was formed and I will not see this happen to it.  There’s more to bears then just fur, masculinity, and muscles.  Like all of mankind we are made in different shapes and sizes and there is no way you can give a solid definition of Bear.  I’ve always said that Husky, Hairy, and Homosexual was the closest, but I always say, “But that’s not completely true.”

When we start talking about labels within the bear community, I take them as a sign of our own diversity.  There’s Big Bears, Pocket Bears, Panda Bears, Black Bears, Muscle Bears, cubs, otters, puppies, wolves, and a plethora of other names.  In the end, we’re all bears.  Hell, even chasers and admirers are bears.  Anyone defined as just a bear to me means that he just can’t seem to be classified in one of the other subcategories.  Nothing wrong with that, you just don’t need another descriptor.

So, to you, owner of Bear | Not Bear.  FUCK YOU!

I (Jeff) am willing to influence people to say, I don’t want him to leave. Whether a bear or not, he is always a welcome addition to the show and I’m glad to have him on. However, we do want your opinion and want to hear from you about your thoughts. Please vote in the poll below, then leave a comment as to why you made your choice. Feel free to use our Google Voice link to speak your mind, or send us an mp3. We want to hear from you and whatever you think, yay or nay.

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I had gastric bypass in 2003. I went from almost 470 to 325 – a loss of 145 lbs. Or, as my former boss in Boston said, “A Backstreet Boy”. Since that time I’ve gained back about 30 pounds, mainly from not walking everywhere like I did in Boston, but also the abundance of Mexican food. Owning a car and being within a 5-minute drive of about a dozen excellent taquerias has proven to be my downfall. I bring up all this not to toot my own horn, but to lead into a sort of paradigm shift I’ve been experiencing over the past few years.

All of my life I have never really had a “type” that I was more physically attracted to – - speaking purely to physical attraction alone, I am drawn to a wide variety of shapes/skin colors/ethnicities. In all my past relationships, though, all of my partners have been considerably smaller than myself.  (Picture a Great Dane dating a minature Greyhound).  Until recently I had never given thought to considering another chubby bear in anything other than a strictly plutonic way.  Within the past two to three years, though, I am increasingly attracted to men more like myself in stature. I have come to appreciate what only chasers have experienced with a big bear. Having always been liberal and open-minded when it comes to one’s attractions, I probably should not be as surprised as I when I get turned on by a guy with a huge, hairy belly or thick, chunky legs.  

Now I will always be attracted to the muscle cub/runner/body builder types, and yes, even some twinks. But it’s a wonderful thing to get aroused by a big hairy bear or chub – as I said earlier – an interesting paradigm shift…….