Very well said! contemporaryillusions: bearnotbear: he choose to stay apart of this whole thing, cuz this girlie discussion is a “not bear” thing. :D I think it’s a shame that people are taking this Tumblr so seriously. I find the gay community to be so discriminatingly superficial that the idea of a group within a group being offended that they’re being misrepresented is absurd. Even with all the social advances us gays are fighting for with regards to legislature and general acceptance, we are still a community divided. This Tumblr pokes fun at the morphing of what a “bear” used to be into what the “ideal bear” has become, which is really just a Muscle Mary with chest hair and a beard. Not since high school have I encountered such visibly clear segregation of people than in the gay community. Sure there are tons of websites devoted to JUST twinks, bears, blacks, jocks, thugs, etc., but what’s most strange, is that you can also find this division in real life. We all know which nights to go out to find “our” group of people. Now think of the scene in Mean Girls that mocked(and mimicked) your typical high school cafeteria. Asians at one table, geeks at another, “pretty” at another… We are a community of people who still have not accepted everyone associated with being “gay.” If you can’t laugh at that, then perhaps you should sit at different table.

Very well said!

contemporaryillusions:

bearnotbear:

he choose to stay apart of this whole thing, cuz this girlie discussion is a “not bear” thing. :D

I think it’s a shame that people are taking this Tumblr so seriously. I find the gay community to be so discriminatingly superficial that the idea of a group within a group being offended that they’re being misrepresented is absurd. Even with all the social advances us gays are fighting for with regards to legislature and general acceptance, we are still a community divided. This Tumblr pokes fun at the morphing of what a “bear” used to be into what the “ideal bear” has become, which is really just a Muscle Mary with chest hair and a beard. Not since high school have I encountered such visibly clear segregation of people than in the gay community. Sure there are tons of websites devoted to JUST twinks, bears, blacks, jocks, thugs, etc., but what’s most strange, is that you can also find this division in real life. We all know which nights to go out to find “our” group of people.

Now think of the scene in Mean Girls that mocked(and mimicked) your typical high school cafeteria. Asians at one table, geeks at another, “pretty” at another… We are a community of people who still have not accepted everyone associated with being “gay.” If you can’t laugh at that, then perhaps you should sit at different table.