Once upon a time.....

...there lived a family of bears; Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear. They all lived together anthropomorphically in a cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave woman, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members and imprint rigid notions of heterosexual roles onto the next generation. Nevertheless, they tried to be happy and took steps to avoid these pitfalls, such as naming their offspring the non-gender specific, "Baby".............etc. etc.

I'd like to dedicate this story to boabfoto who broke down gender stereotypes this morning to play the role of midwife and deliver his baby daughter at home. Well done sir, I hope you had plenty of hot water and towels.