I just finished reading a story entitled "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", and I have to say that the story made absolutely no sense to me. From the very beginning, this whole story just made bears look bad, and it was a very inaccurate portrayal of how the bear world operates.
For starters, bears would never just go off and abandon their breakfasts. We are hungry creatures, and not one to let food go to waste. It wouldn't matter to us if our porridge was too hot or too cold, we would eat it no matter what. There is no way an entire family of bears is going to go off and pass up a delicious meal. I'm sorry, but it just isn't happening. Goldilocks would have shown up to find those bowls licked clean in the real world.
Also, bears hate to sit in chairs. The story acts like Goldilocks would have her choice of cushion softness, but the truth is that bears absolutely avoid chairs if at all possible. They are uncomfortable, they make our backs hurt, and we have a terrible time standing up from them once we sit down. Anatomically, it just makes no sense for a bear.
More than anything, the whole story really acts like bears don't have a keen sense of smell or intelligence. You can be that if there was an intruder in my den, I would smell them long before I ever saw them, and that if I found someone had broken in and was sleeping in my bed, the results would not be how the story goes now.
This story casts bears in a poor light, and I just do not like it at all. Not one little bit!
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