Jan Berenstain: 'Brother Bear is bisexual'
PITTSBURGH - Co-author of the popular Berenstain Bears children's book series Jan Berenstain announced to a stunned Rosemeade Elementary School audience Wednesday afternoon that Brother Bear, son of Papa and Mama bear and sibling of Sister Bear, has always been attracted to both male and female bears.
"Stan and I always considered Brother to swing both ways", responded Berenstain when asked why Brother hung out with Too-Tall Grizzley and Bonnie Brown.
But some Berenstain devotees were less than surprised. "Whatever, I saw this coming." said third-grader Julie Taylor, taking a break from long-division homework. "In Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers, Brother got mad at Sister for telling Mama he was talking to a stranger, when he obviously was just trying to learn about the Bear County swinger scene."
In addition to vetoing several plots for the series in which Brother remains in a monogamous relationship with a female, she denies that his bisexuality is "just a phase," and hopes that her revelation about Brother Bear will receive a less intense reaction than A.A. Milne's estate revealing that Piglet is heterosexual.