Rob
 

What do you think of this?





And this?

why do they all have beards?

without a beard, you can't qualify for a bear?

Not really, you'd qualify as a chub.

why don't you have a beard?

Because I don't want one. Why do you not have a beard youself?

I thought that I'd look more like this, according to Melly.

He looks like the spitting image of someone I know.

because my beards don't grow to a satifactory level of bushiness

Mine neither, that's why I don't grow one. It's too patchy.

YO!

Yes ma'am!

it's probably possible to swim in all the sweat and fat of the second picture

The potential of sweat. hehe, I'm nicking this for a song title.

The first is the Bearlesque people: http://bearlesque.thegreatstromboli.com/

I know the blonde one. He's a nice dude, if boring.

looks like fat gays at drama camp .

I like this guy's beard, even though he looks like he has bovine eye disease a bit.

I wonder exactly when in our cultural zeitgeist did rough looking burly bearded men become a marker for gay? Was there some sort of backlash from the super clean cut, hairless gays? I wonder?

Totally. These days it's not so strange to see bears in more bars than about 6/7 years ago. To be honest the bearded, masculine type has become such a trendy look for so many gays it's boring, and it's just as clonised as the the hairless type. Also, maybe it's just me, but I find the average age of the type of guys who hang out in bars is much older than it was before. This could be because of the internet.

Maybe there is a shift, since it seems that acceptance is more readily available, and going to the strictly "gay" bars is no longer the only option for the fellas.


do you think it happened when many straight guys decided to co-opt the style and look of the gay guys, the clean cut, super hairless look?

do fag hags hang out with bears?

i find the bear types much more appealing than the super clean-cut, smooth and well-dressed gay dudes.
maybe because in my previous job, there was an IT manager who was a typical bear and he was the friendliest, funniest and generally greatest dude ever, and in my current job there's this feminine-looking homo guy who is a total fucking asshole and I can't wait until he gets fired.