Furries?

And let's not forget calling people out when they make sweeping generalizations about particular groups. The nerve of those forum people.

Furries are okay, from what i've seen they're generally creative and intelligent, albeit a lot of them have some freaky fetishes.

Plus they're pretty much like the only RPers Second Life has.

But yeah, generalizations aside, furries are like anyone else, there's stupid ones, nice ones, freaky sex ones, abstinate ones, short ones, tall ones, fat ones, skinny ones, and so on.

I dislike furries. Greatly, infact!

A fundamental value of Second Life is tolerance. I've heard residents refer to this as our "hippie" philosophy. However, I think tolerance is a deeply rooted value that helps to make Second Life the innovative and interesting place that it is, because tolerance supports diversity. If we become too insular, or too homogenous, we will become boring.

If someone wishes to completely disregard and refuse to associate with another based on the color of the person's shirt, they will do so.

To expect tolerance is a rather naive view of humanity.

To expect tolerance is a rather naive view of humanity.

I don't expect it, I demand it.

First off, my opinion of the furry community is no different than it is about any other community. I don't like stereotypes, although I will say I have seen quite a few that hold up to it. That much annoys me, but I don't judge everyone based on that. Each person is different, regardless of the group they happen to be a part of.

Secondly, what the heck is all this ranting and raving? You people want to go and rant about when someone asked a simple question? Well.. here's a rant, 'cause I'm sick of the immaturity! I'm a furry, too, how 'bout them apples?

Yes.. the furry community has its mix of weirdos, goofballs, "normals" and everything else any other community/group/culture/sub-culture has. Yes, we are numerous. Yes, we have porn, and I do tend to agree with the nastiness of childhood cartoon characters being ruined. That is to say, of course, I don't like it. But let me get this straight...

Someone opens a forum asking for opinions on what people thought of furries, and it gets turned into what sounds to me like some kind of politcal debate? Two words. Grow up. If various groups of people cannot learn to accept that other groups of people have their own tastes and beliefs, this whole thing about wanting peace sounds like a waste of breath.

But let's do a quick comparison, here. Hmm.. weirdos, goofballs, normals.. everything else. Yeah, I think I've seen the same thing in other cultures. Numerous? Hell, we're all human, we are numerous, and we're likely to be anywhere there's another human. Evading meeting someone is impossible these days, you're sure to end up with someone bumping into you, no matter how remote the area you live in is.

Porn. Disgusting porn. Oh hell yeah, I've seen ALOT of nasty human, furry, hentai and whatever else you wanna think to mention. If you're looking for it, of course you're gonna find it! This is a little thing called THE INTERNET. It is a massive library of anything you can imagine or not. There is just as much nasty, low-down, taboo and generally dirty human, hentai and whatever else out there as there is furry.

My point is.. why fear, hate or attempt to obliterate anything you don't understand or agree with, when everything else probably has the same outlook on you that you might on them? I mean, I know ALOT of people. I could care less about what they do in their spare time, as long as they're not intentionally trying to offend and harm me.

The biggest problem with almost ANY culture is accepting what other cultures like. Get over it, grow up, and try understanding and accepting things rather than trying to find stuff you hate about it. Quit looking for ways to dig into and annoy them. Just.. bah.

Then you will be sorely disappointed in life.

I guess this an example of what I was talking about earlier. If you read a single thing anyone has posted in this thread, you would know they gave their reasoning for liking/disliking said group from their own personal expirence, which was the threads question. No one was flamming anyone for liking or disliking furries, and you can't really debate personal opinion.

As for me, I was looking for ways to dig in and annoy them. As I've said, they come to my groups sim which has rules given to people as they teleport in. My PERSONAL expirence with furries {bad apple furries} has been that they will do what ever they want where ever they want, dispite constant reminders of our sims or SLs rules. So really, its not fair to say I'm just making up things to annoy them.

Right now you are showing me the exact same behaviour that I discribed in my other post. Reading only what you want to hear, then making drama out of it. The general "Attack the person if what their saying isn't 100% what you want to hear."

Not trying to start a flamewar, but maybe this will answer the topic starts question of where the negative sterotype comes from.

Note.. if you think I was being defencive (defensive) of the furry community, I'm not entirely focusing on just the furry community. Also note that what I saw between the start of this post and the end of it was an aweful (awful) lot of off-topic crud, which I forsaw (foresaw) turning into what it did on the sixth page.

Frankly, I'm defending *every* sub-culture all in one shot, if you'd read.. if you wanna play that game. But I degress (digress). People only see and hear what they want. And it's "they're", not "their". Off I go, then.

Marked up with correct spelling.
Next time you decide to correct someone else's post, make sure your own is properly using the language.

And I could call you something, but I won't, either. Unfortunately, I have a bit of dyslexia, so remembering exact spelling is something I won't do 100%. But I DO at least ensure that I get as close as possible, and do take care to make sure to use punctuation where required.

EDIT:
And my grammar doesn't suck.

EDIT 2:
I'm also done with this topic. G'day.

I've noticed the same thing in my adventures, and I noticed that there seems to be a definite unspoken seperation between the two...

I've noticed the same thing in my adventures, and I noticed that there seems to be a definite unspoken seperation between the two...

Well, if furnation is not a massive enuogh empire for all of us to hang out and not cause any problems with anyone else if things really are that bad. *roll eyes*

Such traits include rezzing penii in the middle of sims, having sex in the middle of sims, using lol as a period, need to cause drama about anything, constantly replaying very very annoying wavs, spawning laggy explosives, running around naked with bits attached, having fire/vehicle fights where they shouldn't

Furries are okay, from what i've seen they're generally creative and intelligent, albeit a lot of them have some freaky fetishes.

Such traits include rezzing penii in the middle of sims, having sex in the middle of sims, using lol as a period, need to cause drama about anything, constantly replaying very very annoying wavs, spawning laggy explosives, running around naked with bits attached, having fire/vehicle fights where they shouldn't

At least we have the likes of w-hat to counter such behaviors with model citizenry!