why?
Posted by theonethatbites (jim bob) on Thu, 2008-01-10 08:45
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Location: Houston, Texas
Because they are bored and use excuses to hate them. They dont like them and so they want them to all be gone. So they say its aginst christian beleifs. That is all BS. I would know.
I'm a open minded, gay, loving christian fox that blesses all who need it and love all creations of God. I may be a die hard christian but I dont judge and love people. I'm a people person.
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Actually, people do not hate furries. People simply tend to ridicule things that they do not understand.
The ones who purport to "hate" furries are likely to be pathetic losers who feel that by displaying a rabidly derogatory response they can somehow elevate their own social status or self-esteem.
Dr. Gerbasi could probably explain it better.
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permalinkUncle Kage is right. (Big surprise, right?)
A handful of people are so insecure about themselves that they think they can get other people to like them by bashing someone else.
A lot of us, when we were small children, at some point, agreed with something unkind about someone else-a child, an adult- not because it was true, but because our friends said something, and we wanted to fit in among them, to be liked, so we said it too. It's disgraceful-looking back as an adult- but understandable for small children to do things like that, since they don't fully understand it's wrong, or WHY it's wrong.
Some people never outgrow that action of small children-they think they have to maintain friendships or respect by making others less- or they think that they can only gain respect or friendships that way. It's sad, but what can you do?
Most people who say unkind things about furries are more speaking from IGNORANCE. All they know about furries is all they "learned" from the media- that ALL furries wear fursuits, that ALL furries are into some sex-thing- when the real furries are off watching cartoons and buying comic-books. With the popular media HAPPY to distort the image of furries in order to entertain the public and keep market-share, it's not easy for people to realize they've been lied to-consistently. That's when you get people who just don't understand.
Of course, it then becomes easy to ridule what is not understood-and is thought to be some sort of "weird" sex-thing.
Remember: What *I* am into is cool, what *you* are into is ok, what that guy over there is into is sick.
(Or at least, that's how people simplify things.)
It is FAR too easy to label something rather than understand it, and to ridicule what you've already labelled.
So, in summary, ignorance, intellectual laziness, insecurity, and immaturity are what cause the problems you see.
Ironic how the "mature" ones are watching the cartoons, and the "immature" ones are not.....
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permalinkMark Evanier, one of our Guests of Honor for AC 2007, said this concerning AC.
(Remember, he's not a furry, and hadn't really been exposed to furry before arriving at the convention.)
http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_07_05.html#013678
http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_07_08.html#013689
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permalinkLocation: the squiggle in your eye
not being rude here but do you like writing long replys?
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His replies may be long, but they are always very thoughtful and thorough!
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permalinkLocation: Philadelphia area, PA
Don't let's let ourselves off the hook too much, dear. We trade in stereotypes about others (mundanes, for instance, most especially christian ones) just about as much as any other group.
It's really easy for us as people to fall into that pattern, after all--the easiest way to define who you are is often to list all of the things that you're not. There are so many people in the world, it can be really hard to be fully open to all of them, so we write off portions of the population so we don't have to deal with them. I once knew a guy who deliberately made a point of being really obnoxious and contrary whenever he first met someone; he wanted to see if they would ever write him off before he put any kind of investment into them, and he couldn't quite bring himself to write them off first.
Having two stepsisters who are about as mainstream as mainstream gets, i've also started to notice just how many people grow up without any real awareness of the wide spectrum of possibilities in who they can really be. If you don't know anyone who's a furry, or a muslim, or a pacifist, or a farmer, it's hard to recognize that as a legitimate choice--kind of like growing up in a town where everyone wears clothes that are yellow or green of some shade, and everyone on tv and in magazines wears nothing but yellow or green, and then suddenly meeting a guy in a bright purple shirt. I've been wearing a pentagram openly for years, but the first time my stepsisters found out that i don't celebrate christmas, they were completely flabbergasted.
I've also heard it suggested that the brain naturally deals in generalizations for simplicity's sake; you ever notice that it's sometimes easier to recognize a cartoon of a famous person than the person themselves? It just takes less brain power to process information if you hardwire in a few shortcuts, and evolution is all about doing things efficiently.
Lately, i've been trying to be more actively aware of the times when i write off any person, from any group, without making a real effort to understand what's going on with them. That way i can push myself to move beyond those generalizations as much as possible, and at least be aware of when i'm assuming things about others. I don't know how successful i've been, but i'm trying.
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What Uncle Kage said.
See also: racists, homophobes, and Dolph the Fascist Hippo.
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Hey sometimes it's something people see in themselves and try to add distance to existing fear or bad media. Some people fall into the hype and when they start seeing similar qualities in themselves, they feel the need to publicly seperate themselves from 'those wierdos'. Just another facet of people fearing what they don't understand...
But an important example I think. I've seen plenty of protesters who more than likely could have fallen into the fandom themselves.
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permalinkPeople are afraid of things that they do not understand and choose not to understand. I just ignore bigoted morons and let what they say in one ear and out the other. Most of the time, they get their jollies off of other people hearing them preach. Oh, if only they knew how big of a putz they truly are.
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Because people want to hate.
What we don't know, we don't understand.
What we don't understand, we fear.
What we fear, we hate.
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permalinkLocation: Knoxville TN
people + different = hate
nuff said
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That so belongs on a bumper sticker.
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permalinkWhat I find ironic is that people aren't all that different. We all love our families/partners/pets, we bleed the same color blood, we want to be treated with respect, etc. What our individual interests/differences are, as long as it does not harm anyone else, should not matter at all.
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