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| I used Paintbrush for Mac to draw this bear. He is ferocious. |
Bears are scary. I've often wondered why they seem to be bent on destruction and evil. They seem to have permanently squinty, scary eyes and slavering jaws. These are terrifying things. But consider popular kids media: Yogi the Bear, Smokey the Bear, the Berenstein Bears, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, etc. All of these bears seem kind and helpful. At the very least, they are not blood thirsty, 800 lb machines of death. So yeah, maybe Yogi is a klepto, but the Three Bears were definitely the heroes in their story. Goldilocks was a brat--taking other people's food, breaking furniture, sleeping in random strangers' beds? She was terrible.
(I don't remember anything from the Berenstein Bears books).
But bears, real life bears with snouts and scary gutteral sounds and inches of razor sharp canines, are dangerous and frightening. So why are all our children's books and TV shows and commercials trying to tell us that bears are cute and fuzzy and great? I would really like to know.
Don't pet bears.
Ever.
So what could be scarier than a beast that can reach up to 30 mph with massive paws that can crush spines in a single swipe? This:
Do you remember the show "little Bear?" I used to watch it every day because I was obsessed and my brain was immature, but it was stupid as anything...and the theme song was even more stupid.
ReplyDeleteYes. I think I did. Was that the one with the bears who lived in the house? Because bears should never live in houses. It leads to disaster. Or maybe that was Bear in the Big Blue House...was that a show?
ReplyDeleteThis bear lived in a stupid tree. I think. The Berenstein bears lived in a tree house because I guess they thought they were clever disguising a house as a tree. I support your hatred.
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