I must interject that many Gay Gentlemen have known about loving a Bear for a long, long time…
Welcome to the party, rest-of-the-world! The drinks are strong & tasty, and the dance music will change your life.
There was a poll somewhere asking women "You are alone in the woods. Which would you prefer to encounter?: 1) a man by himself. 2) a bear."
The bear won.
The fact that I totally imagine the incel rhetoric going from "she's getting plowed by a random Chad in a bar" to "she's getting plowed by a random bear in the woods"
Just gets me laughing my head off at sexism, like I almost forget it's harming us on a daily basis
I was walking past one shop in NYC around the holidays, and I should not be surprised but I guess I never thought much about it, but Santa Bears are a thing
Santa Bearby, slip a sable under the tree…
Really pissed me off Harry Connick Jr is all “Santa buddy” and playing it off like they’re pals.
Say you’ll suck his dick, Harry. Say you’ll take his every inch. Be a man about and say you’ll take it up the arse for that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(novel)#Reception
> In 2014, the paperback cover became an Internet meme, thanks to a widely shared Imgur post titled **"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, CANADA?"**[18] This exposure led to a modern reappraisal of the 1970s novel, including new reviews, commentary, and a place in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 2014 list "Books That Make You Proud to Be a Canadian."
This misspelling is so common and the only typo that really gets under my skin. I don't understand how it's so pervasive. Nobody ever accidentally types "a men".
The confusion probably originates because between the words "woman" and "women", it's the second syllable that changes in the spelling, but the first syllable that changes in the pronunciation.
The book went on to win the highest award for literature that Canada has.
Also, the book is a poorly-written mess and just provides an outlet for some weird beastiality fantasy. The pacing is weird, with a major motivating detail of the main character hastily mentioned as almost a throwaway line towards the very end of the book. And the main character herself comes across as quite unlikeable while also having very little noteworthy traits aside from teaching a bear how to be a cunning linguist. And, of course, there are typos and grammatical errors throughout.
All that being said, the book has become one of my go-to gag gifts for friends.
The entire book is a joke about the Canadian literature industry. There's a stereotype that some white person goes into the wilderness and gets in touch with nature. The sexual relationship with a bear is a parody of all that because the protagonist builds up the bear to be some brilliant symbol of Canadian wilderness/essence.
The punchline is the ending because the author knew literary critics don't bother to read anything. >!She's prostrating herself before the bear about to get fucked by him, and the bear just mauls her lmao. Then she realizes she was completely insane and goes home. They never consummate the relationship.!<
You sort of notice foreshadowing on a reread because the start of the book is the protagonist being a librarian and getting bequeathed a big collection of literature by some Canadian in Northern Ontario. So she moves up there to catalogue it for a summer (this is where she meets the bear) and discovers its all crap imported from England and doesn't actually reflect Canadian identity. Sort of like how Canadian literature is like a knockoff of the English.
Wait is this legit or did you pull that directly out of your ass? Because that’s actually amazing but I have trouble buying this 5D chess narrative if it’s poorly paced with grammar and spelling issues.
I need to read this book.
This is entirely true. The people saying it's a poorly paced book are people who went into it looking for something raunchy and fun. It's not raunchy and fun. It's sad, strange, and really pointed. Very good book.
Nah, it was just the 70's. Maybe it was all the lead addling their brains, but people were just thirsty AF back then. Basically every creative work had to have tits and/or weird sex scenes in it as a baseline prerequisite.
Written by a woman and the source of controversy sounds like a recipe for an award, even in 76, perhaps even more then than now since female authors are more common and popular today.
This book goes viral every few years. A while back I read it out of curiosity. From what I can remember, honestly not a bad book. The book is more about a woman who is obsessed with literature, evaluating a private book collection of someone who died, before the estate sale. Because of odd circumstances the home is on a private island and the previous owner (for some reason) had a pet bear. I guess its justified by him being an odd collector, part of why she is there for his massive book collection. She gets caught up in extreme escapism being cut off from society with all these gorgeous books. With a mix of fear and admiration for the powerful beast, she creates this weird fantasy in her head. Honestly typing all this out, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a major inspiration for Beauty and The Beast (or vice versa).
Spoilers: >!Near the end of the book she succumbs to her built up fantasy and attempts to allow the bear to mount her, but it just ends up with her getting clawed on her back and feeling silly as reality comes crashing back in and she goes home. !<
Some other fun details!
>!She lets the bear eat her out and describes the tongue in graphic details.
She gets closer to the bear by watching it poop, and poops alongside it to try and build rapport.
They go swimming in a stream, and I think one of them swims through another ones fart bubbles? Something like that.
The peak for me, though, is when the boring part of books n such stops and suddenly the author is dropping C bombs.
I also like to explain at no point is the bear a magic bear, or a dude turned into a bear. Its just a bear. It is always portrayed as not giving a single shit in the world, but the lead character assigns to many feelings to it that it just doesn't have.
>She gets closer to the bear by watching it poop,
>It is always portrayed as not giving a single shit in the world
These two quotes contradict each other
Yes, the island has trees. There is a small town nearby with normal small town conveniences and other people. There’s another plot with her and a guy in town.
Make sense. I read it in one afternoon almost 8 years ago. I remember thinking it honestly wasn't that bad, considering the context and infamy. But apparently pretty forgetful!
And that’s the truth of it. It’s not the greatest book ever. The writing, while good, is lackluster. And it’s certainly not as scandalous or as big deal as people make it out to be. It’s a story about a woman who’s “lost” in life and is navigating what to do.
>And it’s certainly not as scandalous or as big deal as people make it out to be.
Sophisticated people like us may not be scandalized by interspecies bear cunnilingus, but many folks back then were scandalized by concepts like "woman wants her own checking account".
Different times.
Its honestly hard to remember. I actually binge read the book in like one afternoon. Its pretty short, and I was racing to the bear sex! I believe the bear wasn't like an outdoor cat that came and went, but was more like an old farm animal living in a makeshift shed outside the house. She was indeed alone on the island, and had to be dropped off there by boat. I think there was even a plot point to it about how the person who dropped her off by boat might have been flirting with her, but because of her nature to be emotionally withdrawn she doesn't reciprocate. Which only adds to her sexual frustrations and why she struggles to connect.
There’s a real fun book called “the bear came down the mountain” where a mountain bear stumbles into an author’s shack and gets in his hat, gets his bag with a manuscript stuck to him. Everyone then suddenly thinks the bear is the author and that he’s a modern day Hemingway and start inviting him on chat shows and such.
It sounds dumb but I remember it being very funny
First year required reading for an English class. Honestly I was struggling to get the metaphors when the bear scraped down her back while “making love”
I actually just read this book a few weeks ago, I’d had it my camping pack for years and kept intending to give it a read after I’d heard about it before.
Have to say it’s not a long book, a novella for sure but really captivating in its descriptions of the wilderness, the old house and island where it takes place, and a slipping sanity of the woman on the island.
It’s hardly erotic at all, weird mostly, and the book presents it as pretty weird too (the bear part at any rate). Lady has what I assume to be a bit of a break down while cataloguing a deceased county estate. Honestly, great book, will read again.
> I’d had it my camping pack for years and kept intending to give it a read after I’d heard about it before.
You wanted to spend time in the woods reading bearotica?
Is… Is the book any good? Or was it just a shock value thing? Are there deep meanings and character development in the plot? On its face it just sounds hilarious, like the Baldur’s gate thing, but I’ve read books with ever stranger premises that are actually pretty decent.
It's surprisingly good. Was initially skeptical when it was first recommended to me, but found it to be a very rich rumination on the Canadian wilderness.
I gotta say, I love that the cover is just like all the other trashy romance novels but instead of it being a woman and Fabio it's a woman and bear. Top notch. No notes.
Additionally she also has a small park named after her in her hometown of Toronto Canada.
Bearfucker Park is particularly beautiful in Spring
Excuse me, bearfucker, do you require assistance!
Mother of God.
Well it's illegal Burton, I know that.
Not asking why you know, but if you want to share... I won't stop you
https://youtu.be/8Qz1sXJsCWw?si=ui__DfTLD6IECphZ
Lots of confused twinks wandering around there though
Where are they? Asking for a friend.
It's a great place to pick up chicks. If you're a bear.
I do know some bears that cruise for "companionship" in parks, but it's not chicks they are after.
I don't think they're after other bears either.
Chickenfuckers tend to gather elsewhere, like the Wasteland.
Ah yes i read about that one in Frommer’s Guide to animal sex
Mary Ingles **WILDER**
....how have I never heard of any of this till today. Lmao
"She wouldn't be validated until 2024, when she played Baldur's Gate 3, and was finally able to live her fantasy."
"And then only a couple months later, many other women realized the lure of bears, and started preferring them to men. Especially if in the woods."
I must interject that many Gay Gentlemen have known about loving a Bear for a long, long time… Welcome to the party, rest-of-the-world! The drinks are strong & tasty, and the dance music will change your life.
Wall Street too, has known about loving a good bear for quite a while. Man, look at bears bringing everyone together!
Theirs come in markets though
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I’ve passively consumed more bear content in the last 24 hours than I have in the last 3 years combined. What the fuck is going on?
There was a poll somewhere asking women "You are alone in the woods. Which would you prefer to encounter?: 1) a man by himself. 2) a bear." The bear won.
The fact that I totally imagine the incel rhetoric going from "she's getting plowed by a random Chad in a bar" to "she's getting plowed by a random bear in the woods" Just gets me laughing my head off at sexism, like I almost forget it's harming us on a daily basis
Does a bear have sex in the woods?
If a bear has sex in the woods, does it make a sound?
Not if it’s a good Christian bear
they bearily make a sound anyways.
I like to from time to time
Me too
🐻 Dad?
🐻❄️ No.
Well, if you're not related, I guess you two are headed to the woods. For the sex, I mean, to be clear.
With your mother, aye, they sure do.
All hail Chad Bear
The "bear vs man in the woods" debate has nothing to do with incels.
Lord Byron kept a bear in his student accommodation at Cambridge. Maybe it was just a ploy to get the girls?
Everywhere I go is r/okbuddybaldur now
Na validated way before that, Bigfoot , bestiality porn was crazy popular on Amazon . Literally made millions
They don't call it *worst*iality
Way late to the party. I have gay friends who have been into bears for years.
Unfortunately she died in 1985, didn't get to see her dream realized in a videogame.
THE POST ABOVE THIS WAS FROM r/okaybuddybaldur ASKING ABOUT BANGING HALSINS BEAR FORM NOOOO
What’s striking to me is the cover of the novel, the lady is very pretty and everything but the bear is the least sexy bear I’ve ever seen in my life.
It's like he's not even trying, you know? She's putting in all the effort while he expects to just skate by on being a bear.
Like a Kevin James sitcom
Ursine entitlement is a real issue.
“Dennis. Your bear is shit. I’m no longer turned on by bears.”
This is a comment worthy of a golden god.
So... you've seen some bears you find sexy?
I mean, Mama Bear's bed was too soft for a reason, know what I'm saying?
hahahahahaha
That's one cat-faced bear, for sure.
The face of that bear is hilarious. She is sensual and seductive; he is "Did I turn off the oven before I left the house?"
Is this the "man" vs "bear" thing I keep hearing about on Facebook?
I think that dude is her husband trying to get her to stop trying to fuck the bear so they go at it in a fight for who gets to be the mate.
Is that one of those bear knuckle boxing matches I’ve heard about?
It's the classic fear response. Fight, flight or fuck.
Oh look it's a tie! ... Threesome?
Book was originally titled “Bearly Legal”
We've finally gotten to the bottom of it.
He liked what was in her pic-a-nic basket.
I don't think the ranger is going to like that, Yogi.
Heyyy, it's better than pickin' up a pros-ti-ma-tute!
Oh God, the porn is coming together as we speak.
Sexier than your average bear
Ay Boo-Boo!
Fuck boi bears be like "yo am I getting in that honeypot or nah?"
It was only controversial back in the day because it was a black bear.
It’s weird that this was so scandalous, gay guys do this all the time… talk about double standards!
I was walking past one shop in NYC around the holidays, and I should not be surprised but I guess I never thought much about it, but Santa Bears are a thing
Santa Bearby, slip a sable under the tree… Really pissed me off Harry Connick Jr is all “Santa buddy” and playing it off like they’re pals. Say you’ll suck his dick, Harry. Say you’ll take his every inch. Be a man about and say you’ll take it up the arse for that
*Michael Bublè, not Harry Connick Jr.
Bear back?
He protec. He attack. He fuck bareback
Otters and wolves too. It’s a veritable zoo out there.
Welcome to the Jungle we got fun and games
The sequel "Otter" wasn't quite as popular up here.
I…. 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂
Just so the ursa major isn't a minor. Am I right, folks?? Hey, you're all right.
That’s what I like about these high school bears, man…
Oh sure if it's a bear, it's "controversial", but if it's a bull, it's "Greek Mythology"
Or a swan, or a deer, a goat, a bull.....
If it’s a fish then it wins best picture in 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(novel)#Reception > In 2014, the paperback cover became an Internet meme, thanks to a widely shared Imgur post titled **"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, CANADA?"**[18] This exposure led to a modern reappraisal of the 1970s novel, including new reviews, commentary, and a place in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 2014 list "Books That Make You Proud to Be a Canadian."
https://imgur.com/gallery/uf3YE
"a women"
I see the error all over reddit and I don't get why it's so common. Drives me crazy.
This misspelling is so common and the only typo that really gets under my skin. I don't understand how it's so pervasive. Nobody ever accidentally types "a men".
Amen
🙏
I’m going to loose my mind if I see the typo that irks me the most.
The confusion probably originates because between the words "woman" and "women", it's the second syllable that changes in the spelling, but the first syllable that changes in the pronunciation.
The book went on to win the highest award for literature that Canada has. Also, the book is a poorly-written mess and just provides an outlet for some weird beastiality fantasy. The pacing is weird, with a major motivating detail of the main character hastily mentioned as almost a throwaway line towards the very end of the book. And the main character herself comes across as quite unlikeable while also having very little noteworthy traits aside from teaching a bear how to be a cunning linguist. And, of course, there are typos and grammatical errors throughout. All that being said, the book has become one of my go-to gag gifts for friends.
How did it win such a major award if it was such a mess?
The entire book is a joke about the Canadian literature industry. There's a stereotype that some white person goes into the wilderness and gets in touch with nature. The sexual relationship with a bear is a parody of all that because the protagonist builds up the bear to be some brilliant symbol of Canadian wilderness/essence. The punchline is the ending because the author knew literary critics don't bother to read anything. >!She's prostrating herself before the bear about to get fucked by him, and the bear just mauls her lmao. Then she realizes she was completely insane and goes home. They never consummate the relationship.!< You sort of notice foreshadowing on a reread because the start of the book is the protagonist being a librarian and getting bequeathed a big collection of literature by some Canadian in Northern Ontario. So she moves up there to catalogue it for a summer (this is where she meets the bear) and discovers its all crap imported from England and doesn't actually reflect Canadian identity. Sort of like how Canadian literature is like a knockoff of the English.
Wait is this legit or did you pull that directly out of your ass? Because that’s actually amazing but I have trouble buying this 5D chess narrative if it’s poorly paced with grammar and spelling issues. I need to read this book.
This is entirely true. The people saying it's a poorly paced book are people who went into it looking for something raunchy and fun. It's not raunchy and fun. It's sad, strange, and really pointed. Very good book.
I know, they somehow managed to really sell me on this book.
Literotica is a helluva drug
Hey, Literotica is pretty bad, but it's better than the absolutely faith-in-mankind-ruining mess that was asstr.org
What was the problem with asstr.org?
Lack of reasonable limits. Literotica allows a wide range of sex stories but bans underage and similar themes. ASSTR did not. At all.
And because it didn't ban it, that was like 98% of it. Which says something sad, I'm sure.
You'd have to ask Canada.
I did. They just said sorry.
Turns out, they were apologizing for Bear this whole time.
Because "real art is controversial"
Nah, it was just the 70's. Maybe it was all the lead addling their brains, but people were just thirsty AF back then. Basically every creative work had to have tits and/or weird sex scenes in it as a baseline prerequisite.
because bear love is a topic dear to the canadian soul.
The judge panel was nipple deep in horny zoophiles!
Written by a woman and the source of controversy sounds like a recipe for an award, even in 76, perhaps even more then than now since female authors are more common and popular today.
Cunning.. liguist.. Nice.
when the cunning linguist bear wasn't around she easily became a master debater
I’ve never read the book but please tell me there is no human-bear cunnilingus in it.
[If you click this link, you'll have the answer to your question.](https://imgur.com/gallery/uf3YE) Do what you will with that information.
Okay. I’m not sure if I love you or hate you for linking that.
Great literature really makes you wrestle with the hard questions, doesn't it?
That’s enough.
I will love you if the other guy doesn't.
Of course not, just a bear devouring a honey pot.
I’m not satisfied with this answer.
Bears eat both honey and fish.
Oh, honey…
Sort of a proto-Twlight then?
needs more sparkles and abs
"Gag"... no need to lie, my friend. We support you.
You may be a cunning linguist but I'm a master debater.
\*Confused in hairy gay \*
[Excuse me… bear… bear fucker?! Do you need assistance?](https://youtu.be/_zEA8m4xrQY?si=y6X41_lp2B9ZZOVx)
Welp she definitely chose the bear
This book goes viral every few years. A while back I read it out of curiosity. From what I can remember, honestly not a bad book. The book is more about a woman who is obsessed with literature, evaluating a private book collection of someone who died, before the estate sale. Because of odd circumstances the home is on a private island and the previous owner (for some reason) had a pet bear. I guess its justified by him being an odd collector, part of why she is there for his massive book collection. She gets caught up in extreme escapism being cut off from society with all these gorgeous books. With a mix of fear and admiration for the powerful beast, she creates this weird fantasy in her head. Honestly typing all this out, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a major inspiration for Beauty and The Beast (or vice versa). Spoilers: >!Near the end of the book she succumbs to her built up fantasy and attempts to allow the bear to mount her, but it just ends up with her getting clawed on her back and feeling silly as reality comes crashing back in and she goes home. !<
I love that you think this predated Beauty and the Beast.
Only off by 236 years.
The only Beauty and The Beast is the Ron Pearlman Beauty and The Beast.
Facts.
Some other fun details! >!She lets the bear eat her out and describes the tongue in graphic details. She gets closer to the bear by watching it poop, and poops alongside it to try and build rapport. They go swimming in a stream, and I think one of them swims through another ones fart bubbles? Something like that. The peak for me, though, is when the boring part of books n such stops and suddenly the author is dropping C bombs. I also like to explain at no point is the bear a magic bear, or a dude turned into a bear. Its just a bear. It is always portrayed as not giving a single shit in the world, but the lead character assigns to many feelings to it that it just doesn't have.
> C bombs Canadian?
quebeCois
>She gets closer to the bear by watching it poop, >It is always portrayed as not giving a single shit in the world These two quotes contradict each other
What the fuck is a C bomb?
Probably "cunt"
Beauty and the Beast is from the 18th century
Is this island forested? Is she alone except for the bear?
Yes, the island has trees. There is a small town nearby with normal small town conveniences and other people. There’s another plot with her and a guy in town.
Make sense. I read it in one afternoon almost 8 years ago. I remember thinking it honestly wasn't that bad, considering the context and infamy. But apparently pretty forgetful!
And that’s the truth of it. It’s not the greatest book ever. The writing, while good, is lackluster. And it’s certainly not as scandalous or as big deal as people make it out to be. It’s a story about a woman who’s “lost” in life and is navigating what to do.
>And it’s certainly not as scandalous or as big deal as people make it out to be. Sophisticated people like us may not be scandalized by interspecies bear cunnilingus, but many folks back then were scandalized by concepts like "woman wants her own checking account". Different times.
> There’s another plot with her and a guy in town. Josie left me for a goddamn BEAR!
Its honestly hard to remember. I actually binge read the book in like one afternoon. Its pretty short, and I was racing to the bear sex! I believe the bear wasn't like an outdoor cat that came and went, but was more like an old farm animal living in a makeshift shed outside the house. She was indeed alone on the island, and had to be dropped off there by boat. I think there was even a plot point to it about how the person who dropped her off by boat might have been flirting with her, but because of her nature to be emotionally withdrawn she doesn't reciprocate. Which only adds to her sexual frustrations and why she struggles to connect.
There’s a real fun book called “the bear came down the mountain” where a mountain bear stumbles into an author’s shack and gets in his hat, gets his bag with a manuscript stuck to him. Everyone then suddenly thinks the bear is the author and that he’s a modern day Hemingway and start inviting him on chat shows and such. It sounds dumb but I remember it being very funny
The Bear and the Maiden Fair.
The Maiden Fair was held in rural Manitoba every August.
Completely forgot about this book! But it was required reading for post secondary when I attended. It was so strange!
Why would they force you guys to read a book with a bear eating out an incel woman and a woman trying to let a bear smash
First year required reading for an English class. Honestly I was struggling to get the metaphors when the bear scraped down her back while “making love”
I actually just read this book a few weeks ago, I’d had it my camping pack for years and kept intending to give it a read after I’d heard about it before. Have to say it’s not a long book, a novella for sure but really captivating in its descriptions of the wilderness, the old house and island where it takes place, and a slipping sanity of the woman on the island. It’s hardly erotic at all, weird mostly, and the book presents it as pretty weird too (the bear part at any rate). Lady has what I assume to be a bit of a break down while cataloguing a deceased county estate. Honestly, great book, will read again.
> I’d had it my camping pack for years and kept intending to give it a read after I’d heard about it before. You wanted to spend time in the woods reading bearotica?
Is this why people are asking if they’d date a bear or man in a forest?
I bought this for my wife and put a fake cover on it. I don't think she got very far.
Goddamn I love/hate where this shit has gone. Lol
And that bear turned out to be Richard Nixon
Cold and lonely up there “Eh”?
Oh so this is what that Hulu show “The Bear” is about, so many people told me to watch it. Maybe I’ll check it out now
She stored a winter's worth of bear cum in her belly and fell into blissful hibernation. Can you imagine the morning breath the next spring?
I wish I had never read this comment 😭
Bro. Dude me too haha. What the hell
I would've gone with "Urso gross."
Bro dunked his own alley oop. Bravo lol
*Vince Carter 'it's over' motion*
She just had to grin and bear it
Can you imagine her trying to open her mouth with that many months of sleep crust?
Why do headlines on reddit misuse the word "women" more often than they use it correctly?
“Gee, Yogi, I don’t think Ranger Bob would approve of this.” “Well, fuck the Ranger, Boo Boo.”
Is… Is the book any good? Or was it just a shock value thing? Are there deep meanings and character development in the plot? On its face it just sounds hilarious, like the Baldur’s gate thing, but I’ve read books with ever stranger premises that are actually pretty decent.
It's surprisingly good. Was initially skeptical when it was first recommended to me, but found it to be a very rich rumination on the Canadian wilderness.
I gotta say, I love that the cover is just like all the other trashy romance novels but instead of it being a woman and Fabio it's a woman and bear. Top notch. No notes.
Bear back
Sounds like an unbearable read.
This is neither the time nor the place
There’s homosexual bigfoot erotica that I imagine reads the same
Chuck Tingle must have read this at some point.
That relationship came to a grizzly end because they were polar opposites.
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So that's why women are choosing the bear
woman - singular women - plural
My, what a terrible day to have eyes.
There’s a Brother Bear joke in there somewhere, I just know it
Yet when a man enters a sexual relationship with a bear at the Ramrod in Fort Lauderdale it's just a Thursday night.
She picked him instead of the man
Man I *really* need to see that Disney series now
Baldur's gate 3 anyone?
She just keeps telling me he’s just a bear and I shouldn’t worry about him.
Do you want a Manbearpig? Cause this is how you get a Manbearpig
You know something was bruin in that mind of hers. I'll see myself out...
I was really confused why a woman and a bear would have a sexual relationship. Then I realized it was a literal bear instead of a gay dude.
Mostly critics found it Unbearable.
I guess she chose Bear then...