Now, if you're not sure what a Bear is, or if you have questions concerning the Bear community (Bear Culture), a good place to start would be to check out Wikipedia's article here.

However, if your back hairs are easily raised when someone has something offensive to say about the Bear world, then maybe you shouldn't read this article from Encyclopedia Dramatica. From AD: "What ISN’T a bear? This is one of those completely useless and asinine questions that will clutter message boards and antiquated mailing lists for all of eternity. Simply asking will get you scoffed at derisively, laughed at, made fun of, told to shut the hell up, and given tons of haughty opinions, but not a real answer. A bear is a (usually) faggot who (often) has emphasized secondary sex characteristics such as (frequently) facial and body hair as well as a (most of the time) larger body frame. The bear scene is (sort of) a niche of the gay community that (originally) was an alternative to the shallow mainstream of gay culture that (from a certain view point) only accepted certain body types. Ironically, the bear scene now does the exact same thing, just with a different body type (sometimes)".

Phew...? And look, they even mention my old site - bear-pics: "A website where attention whores could post pictures and movies of themselves having sex with obese men and forever shame their families". Such flattery.