so tierd of misunderstandings! >:(

[Kodakk]

i am getting so sick of people misunderstanding what exactly a furry is. its discusting what they come up with! im sure you all know (if you are open about your furryness), so i wont go into detail. why do i feel i have to hide it? I DONT, and ill be [censored] if someone is going to make me. if people dont understand something they completly shut it out, and just assume you are ill.

i try to keep my composure and explain to them what it means to be a furry, but too many have their own conclusions. i would really like to know how all of you deal with this. thank you kwooky womble for helping me describe it.

/rant

Post Merge: March 20, 2010, 04:43:02 AMstuff like this....
"You're immoral pieces of crap"

there is something about ignorance that gets me so raged!

[Moongaze]

Misconceptions and stereotypes are what people love to cling to rather than accept people for who they are.

[Kodakk]

true, i just wish they could understand. some of the comments are just down right rediculous! not to mention when they confuse furries with something else that is completely disturbing.

any open furs here? how do you deal with this? how do you not get so mad that you want to start clawing faces off!?

[Moongaze]

Don't let it get to you.  Look at the insults and laugh in the people's faces.  That's what I do.  People want to make fun of me?  What's so great about them?  They're ignorance is hardly worth getting angry over to me.

[Kodakk]

ah, i do let my irish temper get the best of me. its getting to the point where i feel emberrassed to wear my bear ears. what makes people think its okay to make fun of others? 

[Moongaze]

Human nature.  Make themselves feel better at the expense of others.  But in essence it proves nothing.

[White Wolf Guardian]

I usually laugh in the ignorant person's face and take a stab at their morals and how they are hypocritical while belittling them down to the nub, then after leaving them speechless walk away

[Jad'Thor]

most of the world probably doesnt even understand anything more complex then 10+15, let alone trying to explain what a furry is. i tell my friends what i DO think of furriness and not just the "a furry is just a person that likes anthro's" i actually explain the different aspects i really could not care less what THEY think after all your desicions aren't made my other people (ok besides parents, or your boss or something to an extent) they are made by you

[Kodakk]

i laugh nevously when someone asks me what the bear ears are for, because i know they will not understand. i tell them anyway and sometimes they are understanding. but most of the time, seeing as how they probably only heard the negatives, they are disgusted. i guess i shouldnt let it bother me, but bears get mad pretty quick  

[Jad'Thor]

well tell them about things that are "worse" then furry that "normal" people do, it shut the weird people around me up

[Kodakk]

well tell them about things that are "worse" then furry that "normal" people do, it shut the weird people around me up

hahaha, good idea! i couldve used this two days ago, dang!

[Jad'Thor]

i know!...i mean...err....i wouldn't know of such things

[Self-sain]

Don't listen to Jad *shakes finger at Jad in disappointment* don't make fun of any other sub section of any thing just to make "furrys" look better because that just brings us down to those pathetic trolls level. Don't try to explain the furry fandom in all just try to explain your section in the fandom, and back to the original rant. Human beings in general are pathetic (including every one we aren't special) we (when i say we i mean the whole human race as a general not any one individual) fear stuff that are diffrent we either A.) run away from it and doge it at all cost and call it taboo and some form of a sin B.) make our self fell better by making fun of it and calling it stupid and "gay" so we can fell better C.) attack it, it makes us angry and they should be put to death for it; in my opinion that's what we do for almost anything from color, race to sex, sexuality, and fandom 

[Moongaze]

I agree with Sain.  I might have worded that differently but you despite how hard anyone may try, you can't change human nature.  It's much easier to hate or call out rather than understand.

People are pathetic?  I TOTALLY agree.  Especially when people belittle others only to feel better about themselves.  But what they are actually doing is stooping a lower level.

[Kodakk]

well i get it from all angles. i am used to being made fun of for my sexual orientation and because i am a furry. i dont normally care, but sometimes it really gets under my skin. ESPECIALLY when they have no idea what they are talking about.