GemWolf Posted September 10, 2016 Author Share Posted September 10, 2016 1 hour ago, Xaende said: I cringe at your cringing at his cringe, so the cringe is now triply real. The cringe is on! Cringe wars!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calemeyr Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Found this on twitter. This is everything wrong with the fandom in a nutshell. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxon Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 5 minutes ago, Calemeyr said: Found this on twitter. This is everything wrong with the fandom in a nutshell. They're making people uncomfortable and shoving their lifestyle in people's personal space. Furries think it's funny, because they've freaked a mundane. Furry pride! No, you're just proving everyone's point. You see yourselves as seperate from society because you're "special", so society separates itself from you. And then you wonder why people think you're weird. You did it to yourselves. That poor man wanted to just have some fun, and then some douchey furfags come in with their secret fursuit bags and scare the shit out of him. "But we should be accepting of people, we're weird, get over it, and stop being so full of self-loathing!" Why do we have to be weird? Why can't we behave like normal humans in public and not like some alien with brain damage? Some of us want to lead relatively normal lives and not isolate ourselves from non-furs. I mean, how many furries make furry thr only part of their lives, to thr point where they will only date furries? It's all so dumb. This, my friends, is how the fandom's reputation stays crap in public. Lifestylers are stupid. I think the image is being circulated because it's comical. I'm not sure how you managed to find moral outrage in it. It's a particularly strange thing to be enraged about, given that theme parks often have their own animal mascots provided as part of the entertainment that customers expect. I suppose I can negate your anger by posing a question. If riding fairground rides in an animal costume really was an oppressive behaviour, do you not think the people managing the rides would have simply politely asked their customers not to wear the costumes? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calemeyr Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 3 minutes ago, Saxon said: I think the image is being circulated because it's comical. I'm not sure how you managed to find moral outrage in it. It's a particularly strange thing to be enraged about, given that theme parks often have their own animal mascots provided as part of the entertainment that customers expect. I suppose I can negate your anger by posing a question. If riding fairground rides in an animal costume really was an oppressive behaviour, do you not think the people managing the rides would have simply politely asked their customers not to wear the costumes? It's not the image really. It's just something that's been making me mad anout this fandom for years and the image was a visualization. I admitted it was just a meme-ish picture ar the end of the long and drawn out rant. People complain about the bad reputation and yet people act dumb in public and harm the reputation further. That's what I was getting at. Why choose to freak the mundanes? Furries aren't oppressed. See, I'm into suiting, but I get the feeing a large portion of suiters are hardcore furries, and I don't want to deal with that or be associated with it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxon Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Just now, Calemeyr said: It's not the image really. It's just something that's been making me mad anout this fandom for years and the image was a visualization. I admitted it was just a meme-ish picture ar the end of the long and drawn out rant. People complain about the bad reputation and yet people act dumb in public and harm the reputation further. That's what I was getting at. Why choose to freak the mundanes? Furries aren't oppressed. See, I'm into suiting, but I get the feeing a large portion of suiters are hardcore furries, and I don't want to deal with that or be associated with it. I think this is a pretty small thing to get upset over. If the worst thing about furries is that some people make other randoms feel transiently weird while they pass by them in the street, then you know...it's not something worth getting mad about? You don't need to let these small-potato issues (is this even an issue?) get in the way of your enjoyment of costumery and stuff. (and from what I've seen you're pretty talented) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calemeyr Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 20 minutes ago, Saxon said: I think this is a pretty small thing to get upset over. If the worst thing about furries is that some people make other randoms feel transiently weird while they pass by them in the street, then you know...it's not something worth getting mad about? You don't need to let these small-potato issues (is this even an issue?) get in the way of your enjoyment of costumery and stuff. (and from what I've seen you're pretty talented) Yeah you're right. I think I just need to work up my self esteem. Still, I myself would limit fursuiting to cons, but that's just me. I guess let people have their fun...as long as they don't say everyone else is just like them. Yeppp, someone did get upset about talking smack about furry pride. They said "we're all weird". Why do we have to be? I'd prefer eccentric (sounds cooler to say too, because I'm pretentious). So I'll just do furry how I want to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxon Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Just now, Calemeyr said: Yeah you're right. I think I just need to work up my self esteem. Still, I myself would limit fursuiting to cons, but that's just me. I guess let people have their fun...as long as they don't say everyone else is just like them. Personally, I wouldn't dare take a fursuit anywhere where I could step in a dog shite by accident, to be honest. x3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Lee Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 3 hours ago, Calemeyr said: [rant] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calemeyr Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 17 hours ago, Crazy Lee said: You spent time posting a meme to a rant saying it's long...??? Why not post "TL;DR" as text? Whatever. I'm too tired right now. Anyway, you know, I've been thinking about this thread. This topic has been around for ages. Public perfeption of furries. The thing that people complain about furries the most (besides the porn) tend to be things that all other fandoms exhibit. Those "geek fallacies" are in full swing. But furries (and the "trolls" too) seem to pick out the fandom for being unique for having these fallacies, when it isn't...at all. Maybe furries do it worse? To be honest, I think that old man's reaction would have been the same if the people dressed like Naruto. And that's the public perception part: all geeky fandoms will be seen as weird by the public, so getting defensive about one or trying to one up one another is stupid. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GemWolf Posted September 11, 2016 Author Share Posted September 11, 2016 lol furries on a theme park ride with an old man = day made! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperial Impact Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Is Gemwolf a southern? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GemWolf Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 On 07/10/2016 at 1:07 PM, Imperial Impact said: Is Gemwolf a southern? A southern what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperial Impact Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 11 hours ago, GemWolf said: A southern what? Take a guess, Gemwolf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Lee Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 On 10/6/2016 at 11:07 PM, Imperial Impact said: Is Gemwolf a southern? She's very very southern. Insanely southern. Southern as in Southern Hemisphere.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troj Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 My sense is that the people who claim to "hate" furries are typically young people and/or Internet geeks who are looking to increase their popularity and street cred by showing that they've got their finger on the pulse of who to love and who to hate. Otherwise, I'd say that the average person's reaction to furries is characterized more by disgust, embarrassment/"cringe," contempt, and/or confusion than outright hatred, because they've heard snippets about the "sex thing," assume furries=therians, and think frolicking about in an animal suit is weird and immature. Slightly-more-informed people might find furries annoying and weird due to awkward or unpleasant run-ins with furries online or IRL, or due to having heard stories or anecdotes about these kinds of encounters. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshabi Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 On 9/1/2016 at 9:50 PM, GemWolf said: This year, I came out as furry as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazerMaster5 Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 If IRL people are making fun of you for being a furry, you are doing it wrong. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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