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Is it so wrong for a man to have a teddy bear?
NewGeekPhilosopher
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Because I have one, or rather, a teddy Frog, named Froggy. I got him to replace the far less imaginative squishy green pillow with beans in it. There's something about teddy bears and stuffed animals that are warm and fuzzy to me, even though I am a dude. If it's still cool to play Pokemon, why the stigma about teddy bears owned by guys? 
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just do it
It severely irritates me when I hear things like, "Ugh, I can't believe I know that."
or
"I hate the fact that I understand you."
It just reeks of further purposeless marginalization and stigmatization and other big words for very simple concepts.
Being nerdy or "smart" is "uncool," and you have to make damn well sure when you speak that you are definitely not proud of knowing something. Not just with games, though specifically here I'm speaking of games on a game comic forum.
His name is choo-choo.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
If you disagree with them, ignore them.
People worry too much about other's perception of them.
I myself still have the stuffed lamb that I had when I was but a tiny lad.... she sits on a shelf in my closet.
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Coincidentally, I had a blanket that I was conditioned to do the same thing with. I still have it, because it makes going to sleep hilariously easy, and when it's absent I get all restless during the night.
I got triggers trained into me too, though not as nice as that one. My older brother used to relentlessly tickle my sister and me on the front of our necks - to this day if you try to touch the front of my neck, I'll instinctively recoil like a turtle, sometimes pretty violently. My sister is the same way.
I always need to sleep with -something-. If my wife or one of the cats isn't in bed with me, I need a stuffed animal. -shrug-
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It's alright to love your teddy bear. Just don't LOVE your teddy bear.
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When I leave university and move out of my parents' house properly, I'll probably take him with me. I doubt I'll take the other animals I collected when I was younger, though, like the two-foot Pumbaa I got at Disneyworld.
If all it takes for you is a daily hug of your teddy bear, count yourself lucky and leave it at that.
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I also have a green dinosaur named Gooby...
Except when I watch Toy Story 2. Then I have to take it out for a bit.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Likewise. Well, minus the name. He's sitting in my bookshelf, keeping the demons away while I sleep.
I actually still sleep as if I had a teddy. I tend to wake up and discover that I've bunched up one corner of the sheets under the arm as if I was holding it around a teddy bear. Muscle memory is interesting. :P
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1 Winnie the Pooh
1 buffalo
1 cardinal
4 bunnies
2 stingrays
1 whale
2 turtles
2 hedgehogs
2 dolphins
2 iguanas
3 various pokemon
2 seals
6 bears
2 monkeys
2 jellyfish
1 giant squid
1 kangaroo
1 mouse
1 unicorn
1 duck
2 Koalas (remember, koalas aren't actually bears)
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1 penguin
1 tiger
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4 dogs
1 pig
1 wolf
1 weasel
1 bluejay
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and 2 things that are cute but defy classification
Just never, ever wish for it to be real.
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So are you proud of seeing tubgirl or lemon party? Because if I were to accidentally let slip that I had seen either one I'd be making it extremely fucking clear that it wasn't something I enjoyed
Shoo Shoo was the name of my favorite, a little white seal. Man, she (or he, it was never entirely clear) was just bouncing off the walls with energy. I remember she'd have these episodes where she'd start yelling "Shoo! Shoo shoo shoo shoo!" (she was named after the thing she yelled, and she predated Pokemon!) all loud and shit, and she'd have, like, this seizure thing where she started spazzing out all over the place. Then she'd get in my face and start yelling again and it was all cute.
Then Shoo Shoo got older, as I did. But instead of growing, he/she just got all ratty and his/her eyes fell out.
So now she's in kind of a vegetative state.
You mess with the dolphin, you get the nose.
I envy you.
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However, there is no stigma to a couple of teddies.
(The SMT Lucifer figurine I have probably balances out the sugary factor with utter chaotic destruction.)
I also have a strange tendency to give inanimate objects feminine nicknames. The most infamous example is my knife, Isabella, but others include my custom backpack, Katyusha, and my PS3, Riza.
Girlfriends or friends will get me some little bear or rabbit or something, something that reminds them of me or me of them. I keep the ones that have the most meaning and give the remainder to family members or coworkers with kids.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I also end up curling up with a corner of the blankets, or a pillow, when I'm sleeping.
My boyfriend had a stuffed tiger, but we had to hide Tiger a while back because my boyfriend had a really really high fever one night and the tiger was staring at him and wouldn't stop. So we had to hide it.
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Also the use of the word "magically" to marginalize an argument. As in, "just because we legalize needle exchanges, it will magically reduce the number of health issues addicts face?"
Aside from that, it's not "wrong" to have a teddy bear, as you aren't really hurting anyone. It is counter-productive to being a socially successful adult.