Isn't the bear a metafor in this case? I remember a rather famous yuri anime where bears are used as stand-ins for people who identify as lesbians... Yuri Kuma Arashi is what my google-fu identified it as.
My point is, this isn't really a furry story, because it's not about having a relationship with a human-animal hybrid, instead the bear is actually a human who is drawn as a bear, as a metaphor for being non-feminine, for being self-conscious, etc. I didn't read it as furry at all.
Sort of like Maus (very famous comic about the holocaust, where the jews are mice and the nazis are cats), it's not actually about anthropomorphic cats and mice, they're just used as a metaphor for victims and cruel abusers.
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