Bear Naked
July 20, 2009
Why does Smokey the Bear not wear a shirt?
And for anyone who says “because he’s a bear,” explain to me why the bear needs to wear a hat and denim jeans? The other bears are naked. Definite classism.
I’ve just never realized how sexy and all-American Smokey is. Shirtless, in nothing but blue jeans in nature? A bit of a belly. Chest hair. Deep, rumbling voice that makes us all submissive.
Hapless, maybe fainted, seemingly feminine deer in the background.
A praying bear? Well, we are a Christian nation…because that whole “separation between church and state” bit was well, only in quotations.
Although Jimmy Carter saying that “The male interpretations of religious texts and the way they interact with, and reinforce, traditional practices justify some of the most pervasive, persistent, flagrant and damaging examples of human rights abuses,” is pretty interesting business. It’s not often that the abuse of women is seen as anything else, except the abuse of women, as opposed to the abuse of a human being, something we all cannot stand because it makes us all too similar.
Wishbone, Richard Siken
July 20, 2009
If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.
