"Bears ... take [the] frumpy, ordinary image of undemonstrative masculinity and eroticize it. Instead of sexualizing the perfect abs or the biggest bicep, bears look at a mature man's belly and see in it the essence of maleness and the mother lode of their sexual attraction. What women (and, now, the gay men on 'Queer Eye') often do to their men -- clean them up, domesticate them, clothe them properly, groom them, tame them -- is exactly what bears resist."
-- Andrew Sullivan writing at Salon.com, Aug. 1.
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Queer eye seems to be the height of the creation of the "new-age sensitive male". Every woman seems to crave having a gay friend and now their husbands can at least look and act the part.
What we're seeing is the breakdown of the bastion of masculinity in its raw forms. Bears and their straight counterparts (unknowing bears) will be marginalised by a sea of primped and pampered gay-mainstream wannabe straight males.
Sullivan (Salon.com, Aug.1) has only scratched the surface of this topic.
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