Twink Bear Scale

Twink Bear Scale
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A Mr Bearfest SA finalist explains what it means to be a gay bear in South Africa.
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Gay subcultures move and morph at a rapid pace, but the ubiquitous "bear" and "twink" cultures have stuck around. The former typically refers to muscular men with body hair, while Wikipedia describes twinks as "having little or no body or facial hair, a slim to average build, or appearing to be younger than their actual age".
The communities involved are growing. But what is a bear really? And how are they different to twinks?
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HuffPost SA spoke to some of the people involved in the upcoming Bearfest -- an annual event that takes place in Pretoria where the bear community gathers to do bear-related things -- in an effort to understand bear culture.
"Bearfest is basically a community-building event for the South African gay bear community that shows gay men that you can accept people for who and what they are," creator of Bearfest SA Chris Taute says.
Taute says that being a bear is difficult to explain, but at its heart the community is about being nonjudgemental. It's important, he says, because the gay community suffers from the perpetuation of body standards that many gay men find difficult to live up to.
"The bear culture generally tends to place little or no value on social stature or conforming to the latest magazine looks and styles, contrary to the main stream gay culture."
The programme for the weekend includes parties, cookouts and picnics, as well as a wrestling match that takes place in an inflatable pool filled with 80 litres of personal lubricant, water slides, and the main event on the calendar -- The Mr Bearfest SA competition.
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Twenty-year old Mr Bearfest SA finalist Thatho Maseko breaks down what being a bear means to him.
"Not all bears are big or fat [chubby], there are otters that are slimmer, but just as hairy and rugged," Maseko explains.
"Then there are guys like me, whom you could call a cub, that can mostly be described as the younger and a bit smaller guy than a normal bear of the bear community," he says, laughing.
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"But anyone who supports values such as having a good attitude to life, friends and helping the local community, is welcome in the bear community regardless of appearance. It is a philosophy of acceptance, respect, and a celebration of diversity. You don't have to look or be a certain way to be part of the bear community."
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Alternative to the Butch/Femme and Twink/Bear scales
The Indecisive Supremo (NB / Bi / Switch)
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so someone had the idea of a nonbinary meme sub, and thus this was birthed approximately a big number days ago. any takers?
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So I know this is a joke post but a friend just identified me as soft feral and honestly? Yeah.
Hot tea and stories about fistfights. Cuddles and roughhousing. Hugs but they knock the wind out of you. Loves scented candles, smells like sweat and leather oil. Will hold and comfort loved ones when things are hard but also ask if they need me to find someone and who knows how much I'm kidding.
Aaaaa this gives me all the feels <3
"HEY NBS! ARE YOU TIRED OF HAVING TO RATE YOURSELVES ON THE FEMME/BUTCH OR TWINK/BEAR SCALE? FEAR NO MORE! I HAVE MADE A WONDERFUL CHART FOR NBS WHO DON’T LIKE ASSOCIATING THEMSELVES WITH FEMININE OR MASCULINE TERMS."
I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I'M A RIGHT BABY AND BASTARD.
I immediately linked this to my D&D group so we can all start deciding whether our characters are gentle babies or feral bastards lol 👌👌
Hold up I've got to drop everything and rank my party and every NPC we've encountered-
Can anyone explain what any of this means please?
It's a joke scale, meant to appear like the lesbian Butch-Femme or the Twink-Bear scale without masculine or feminine terms
I'd say I'm probably soft feral, but my boyfriend is a feral bastard without a doubt and I'd do anything for him.
It's a parody of the femme/butch and twink/bear scale. That's all it's meant to be.
By that metric, even if it were serious, it's not sexual roles but expression

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In the spirit of combating stereotypes by reclaiming and celebrating them, BBDO NY Art Director James Kuczynski and illustrator Paul Tuller have created a “Guide to Gay Stereotypes,” a series of silk screened images capturing the essence of your neighborhood gay archetypes.
The posters, released this week as we head into Pride season , celebrate the recent Supreme Court decision on DOMA. They present portraits of gay stereotypes including the The Bear, The Otter, The Twink, The Twunk, The Drag Queen, and The Butch. The posters are available for $18 each, and some of the proceeds will go to the “Think B4 You Speak” campaign, which supports LGBT teens and raises awareness about homophobia and the use of terms like “That’s so gay,” “Dyke” and “Faggot.”
Kuczynski says he found himself in a gay bar one night listening in on some dudes talking about what stereotypical categories they belonged in. “The topic, well, it just made me chuckle,” he says. “It got me thinking how many stereotypes there are really in the LGBTQ community. I don’t even know. It’s interesting how certain people relate to themselves as a certain type or label especially when going out and having fun, while others are repulsed by the idea of fitting into a label. It seemed like an interesting area to explore.”
Says Tuller on his interest in the project: “First and foremost is my love of drawing hairy men. Second is my interest in how these labels have been reclaimed by the LGBTQ community as something lighthearted, erotic, comical, or otherwise endearing. Labels of any kind can be polarizing and exclusive, but at some point the community reclaimed these words as something more, and I wanted to celebrate that.”
Meet the stereotypes in the slide show above.
Jennifer Miller is the author of The Year of the Gadfly (Harcourt, 2012) and Inheriting The Holy Land (Ballantine, 2005). She's a regular contributor to Co.Create.

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