Well it's been a little while since I've posted, and given some stuff that's happened, I think it's most apt that I discuss the fur fandom and the countercultures therein, namely the 30 or 40% who are homosexual.
As I type this I'm holding a flashlight in my mouth to see the keyboard and watching the laptop battery meter because the power's gone out again. If not for a tethernet internet connection I wouldn't be able to post at all; so I apologize in advance for any lack of tact or perception as I'm trying to crank this out before the battery runs out. Consider it a challenge I've presented to myself to keep life interesting.
Keeping life interesting, that actually kind of blends into what I was going to be discussing as to why furries exist in the first place. Of all the various fandoms, furries seem to get the most heat. Admittedly this has died down in recent years and has been replaced by a seething hatred of pokemon, digimon, yu-gi-oh, and now ponies in that order with intervals of about 1 year between each.
Now many would claim this heat would be a deterrent towards people who are just in it for the fun and not as a matter of self-identification, but I counter under the same context that a well known pony has been subtitled-captured-still-image as: "I'm gonna love and tolerate the shit out of you"
Some people in the fandom seem to thrive off drama and hatred, they seem to be entertained by rage and stress. This isn't to say all are like that, and this isn't to say it's entirely their fault. There's an old saying "we're the product of all our experiences" so if you continually hate a person for trying to express themselves, of course they're gonna turn into an absolute dickwad, and speaking of dicks that brings me to my next topic; homosexuality.
Maybe 1 in 10 of those reading what I just wrote probably had the thought "but what about lesbians, there's no dick there" and you'd be right. The problem is that lesbians seem to take a back seat to gay men on the internet in terms of hatred or disgust. It seems that by large, lesbians are seen as sex objects and gay men are seen as an unholy scourge, what misogynistic bastard made that a rule?
There are just as many gay women as gay men I've met in my travels, and quite frankly the only difference I see between them and heterosexuals by large is that they've had to put up with a lot more shit. This has one of three effects.
1; It turns them into a soft and easily damaged person who's been worn down to a nub by a cruel and dark world.
2; It turns them into a cold and unflinching person who could watch the twin towers fall and just shrug it off, kind of like me and how I've been for a good portion of my life.
3; It turns them into a hard and callous uncaring monster, who doesn't give a shit about the world anymore and would rather punch you in the face than hear one more gay joke.
Now the degree to which a person is turned into those has at least a dozen governing factors, and no two people are exactly the same. But there's one piece that plays a huge role, and that's in how they're treated.
This brings me back to the initial topic and how they connect to one another. People in the fur fandom are by large people who've said fuck the world and have come out and become open about who and what they are and what they like. They like animals, so they will behave like them, dress like them, read stories and look at art made about them, it's just who those people are and what they like.
In a community that exists on the basis of being open and honest about who and what you are, it only makes sense a larger portion of people who are homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, transsexual, transgendered, or any other obscure alignment I forgot to mention would come out about it. but this brings up another issue, if you find somebody who's both gay and a furry, you shouldn't hate them or yell at them or scream obscenities. You should be damned proud you live in a world of freedoms.
The very same freedom that lets you shout those obscenitis, the same freedom that lets you tell the world what religion you are or what political party you follow without taking an arrow to the chest (or knee, should the situation apply) is the freedom that lets them be who they are and not have to be afraid. Beyond that, I've found that by large gays tend to be more compassionate and open with their feelings, and furries are some of the biggest animal lovers I've ever seen, and no not in the sexual way.
And for that matter, if you're one of the big over testosteroned musclebound meatheads that see fit to berate and harass those of that community, cut them some slack, the gays can't genetically have kids and the furries are statistically less likely to find love and eventually have children with another human. If anything darwinism is on your side, so why add insult to injury by picking on somebody who's already got a hard lot in life? How about next time you trip I kick you in the ribs a couple times while you're on the ground, or if you turn your back I put a knife in it, wouldn't be fun, would it? So what makes you want to show the same behavior to them?
If anything, you straight and homophobic or furaphobic, yes, I made a word, shut up. If you people of those inclinations out there see what they do as so wrong and so bad, how about instead of fueling their hatred, you instead show them the good side. if you want them to see beauty in humans, then show them what makes us better than animals, if you want to show them how straight guys act, then display some fucking chivalry.
Don't do these things because you have to, but because it's the right thing. And in a final note just to act as a catch-all, if you want to say Jesus hates fags and "animal fuckers" then I ask you one question. When Jesus met a whore, did he stone her, or make her one of his best friends?
As I type this I'm holding a flashlight in my mouth to see the keyboard and watching the laptop battery meter because the power's gone out again. If not for a tethernet internet connection I wouldn't be able to post at all; so I apologize in advance for any lack of tact or perception as I'm trying to crank this out before the battery runs out. Consider it a challenge I've presented to myself to keep life interesting.
Keeping life interesting, that actually kind of blends into what I was going to be discussing as to why furries exist in the first place. Of all the various fandoms, furries seem to get the most heat. Admittedly this has died down in recent years and has been replaced by a seething hatred of pokemon, digimon, yu-gi-oh, and now ponies in that order with intervals of about 1 year between each.
Now many would claim this heat would be a deterrent towards people who are just in it for the fun and not as a matter of self-identification, but I counter under the same context that a well known pony has been subtitled-captured-still-image as: "I'm gonna love and tolerate the shit out of you"
Some people in the fandom seem to thrive off drama and hatred, they seem to be entertained by rage and stress. This isn't to say all are like that, and this isn't to say it's entirely their fault. There's an old saying "we're the product of all our experiences" so if you continually hate a person for trying to express themselves, of course they're gonna turn into an absolute dickwad, and speaking of dicks that brings me to my next topic; homosexuality.
Maybe 1 in 10 of those reading what I just wrote probably had the thought "but what about lesbians, there's no dick there" and you'd be right. The problem is that lesbians seem to take a back seat to gay men on the internet in terms of hatred or disgust. It seems that by large, lesbians are seen as sex objects and gay men are seen as an unholy scourge, what misogynistic bastard made that a rule?
There are just as many gay women as gay men I've met in my travels, and quite frankly the only difference I see between them and heterosexuals by large is that they've had to put up with a lot more shit. This has one of three effects.
1; It turns them into a soft and easily damaged person who's been worn down to a nub by a cruel and dark world.
2; It turns them into a cold and unflinching person who could watch the twin towers fall and just shrug it off, kind of like me and how I've been for a good portion of my life.
3; It turns them into a hard and callous uncaring monster, who doesn't give a shit about the world anymore and would rather punch you in the face than hear one more gay joke.
Now the degree to which a person is turned into those has at least a dozen governing factors, and no two people are exactly the same. But there's one piece that plays a huge role, and that's in how they're treated.
This brings me back to the initial topic and how they connect to one another. People in the fur fandom are by large people who've said fuck the world and have come out and become open about who and what they are and what they like. They like animals, so they will behave like them, dress like them, read stories and look at art made about them, it's just who those people are and what they like.
In a community that exists on the basis of being open and honest about who and what you are, it only makes sense a larger portion of people who are homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, transsexual, transgendered, or any other obscure alignment I forgot to mention would come out about it. but this brings up another issue, if you find somebody who's both gay and a furry, you shouldn't hate them or yell at them or scream obscenities. You should be damned proud you live in a world of freedoms.
The very same freedom that lets you shout those obscenitis, the same freedom that lets you tell the world what religion you are or what political party you follow without taking an arrow to the chest (or knee, should the situation apply) is the freedom that lets them be who they are and not have to be afraid. Beyond that, I've found that by large gays tend to be more compassionate and open with their feelings, and furries are some of the biggest animal lovers I've ever seen, and no not in the sexual way.
And for that matter, if you're one of the big over testosteroned musclebound meatheads that see fit to berate and harass those of that community, cut them some slack, the gays can't genetically have kids and the furries are statistically less likely to find love and eventually have children with another human. If anything darwinism is on your side, so why add insult to injury by picking on somebody who's already got a hard lot in life? How about next time you trip I kick you in the ribs a couple times while you're on the ground, or if you turn your back I put a knife in it, wouldn't be fun, would it? So what makes you want to show the same behavior to them?
If anything, you straight and homophobic or furaphobic, yes, I made a word, shut up. If you people of those inclinations out there see what they do as so wrong and so bad, how about instead of fueling their hatred, you instead show them the good side. if you want them to see beauty in humans, then show them what makes us better than animals, if you want to show them how straight guys act, then display some fucking chivalry.
Don't do these things because you have to, but because it's the right thing. And in a final note just to act as a catch-all, if you want to say Jesus hates fags and "animal fuckers" then I ask you one question. When Jesus met a whore, did he stone her, or make her one of his best friends?
