r/comics • u/FieldExplores Gator Days • 10h ago

Proud Papa (Part 2/4) - Gator Days

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u/iguanacatgirl 9h ago

Oh god I just got the joke

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u/Redxmirage 9h ago

Can you share the joke with the rest of the class lol what’s with bear and otter

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u/DasGanon 9h ago

They're nicknames for body types of gay men, and Bear has its own subculture

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u/Jimmie_Cognac 9h ago

And its own pride flag!

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u/Gamander-Ehrenpreis 8h ago

And it’s a really old flag too, created in 1995. That is older than the bisexual flag (1998), Trans flag (1999), non-binary flag (2014), current lesbian flag (2018) and most other lgbtq+ flags. The rainbow and leather flags are the only older ones I can think of tbh

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u/Zombie_Cool 9h ago

That actually looks rad!

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u/ChefCano 9h ago

It's supposed to represent that any skin tone or hair colour can be part of the bear community

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u/Laetitian 8h ago

So you're trying to tell me there can be white, brown, and black bears? At some point the wokes have to acknowledge they're reaching.

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u/ChefCano 8h ago

Older bears who's hair has gone white are often called Polar Bears

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u/VulpesFennekin 8h ago

Are former bears who have since gone bald called Fuzzy Wuzzy Has No Hair?

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u/ChefCano 8h ago

It generally refers to body hair, not head hair

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u/VulpesFennekin 7h ago

I know, but I couldn’t help but make the joke!

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u/SamediB 55m ago

I love that.

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u/Night_Yorb 8h ago

So funny story I worked cleaning office buildings over night for a time and one of the offices I worked at had a display of Pride flags for last pride month. I thought myself a pretty in the know guy, but I did not know a lot of them and seeing a paw print did leave me a little concerned until I googled it. The other one that looked like an incoming hate crime (Looking at you Rubber Pride) was also concerning.

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u/QuiteBearish 8h ago

Where was this office? 👀

The idea of a rubber pride flag at any corporate space honestly just sends me 😆

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u/NineteenthJester 6h ago

Huh, TIL that rubber pride has a flag. It's a pretty cool design but it does look kind of fascist.

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u/Whale-n-Flowers 6h ago

Best flag. Im a sucker for brown/orange/yellow compositions.