i’ve seen this picture a lot lately, and usually with really negative remarks, so i wanted to clarify some things.
this is a picture from a charity fundraiser for a children’s hospital that furries had raised $3,000 dollars for.. and in 2013 numerous furry conventions raised $189,820 for charities like Therapy Pets, NARF (a native american rights fund), and many wildlife preserve funds and shelters.
so yeah this person is dressed in an anthropomorphic suit and they’re being pet by a little kid, but there’s nothing inherent sexually about this (which is what im assuming most people have concerns about). cosplayers know that people and kids approach you for pictures all the time, and honestly this isn’t that different. this is just a kid who thought they were seeing a giant stuffed animal walking around and probably got excited. chill out you guys its not like the furry is getting ready to whip out a massive animal dong and slap people with it.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING. FURRIES ARE THE BEST PEOPLE EVER AND GET NO CREDIT FOR IT OMG
A bunch of people in animal costumes raised all that money to help care for big cats raised in captivity, many of whom had been abandoned, abused and illegally bred. Thanks to the furries those animals can continue to live peacefully with medical care, food and companionship for the rest of their natural lives.
I just felt it was an interesting piece of recent news to share on the subject :)
Furries are a-ok in my book. Always have been. Sure there are some psychos and creeps but if I judged every fandom by the psychos I’ve met in them I’d hate EVERYTHING. Generally speaking all the furries I’ve ever encountered at cons or in the real world in general have been moderate, fun and HUGELY kind.
So, yeah. don’t be so quick to paint all furries with the same brush.
The biggest furry convention (anthrocon) raised $30,000 for the national aviary last year. Charity seems to be something furries are good at. But of course we don’t hear about that because People In Costumes Weird
I L O V E T H IS
Furries have saved my butt before, dude. Furry fandom will commission you when no one else will and they’ll INSIST on paying decent prices. I’ve ranted about this before but when my back went out for like a month, I did an emergency commissions fundraiser and people were sending me $$ even knowing I wouldn’t be able to draw until I got better. They paid my rent. And they were patient angels about getting their art.
Furries are phenomenally wonderful people.
Ya’ll are so quick to hate furries yet ignore the kind stuff half of the community does and honestly that’s kinda nasty.
Don’t worry us long in the tooth greymuzzles are used to it. But yeah, the stereotypical idea fueled by places like Something Awful and 4chan, is basically a minority.
Listen, I may give my friends who are furries a lot of shit but it’s all in jest. Furries are usually some of the nicest and most accepting people I’ve ever met
i probably would’ve criticized the Blood Drinking Elites post earlier if i hadn’t just skim read it and thought it was exclusively about Peter Thiel’s creepy comments, which i had been aware of for a while, so I was like I was like “yeah okay wouldn’t be the first time rich people propose something utterly abhorrent like this”, didn’t think much of it to be honest.
but now i see people are criticizing the post, so i went and actually read it properly and whoops! its actually pushing some legitimate conspiracy theory bullshit, the big article link on the post is to what looks like a conspiracy theorist website, and the tweets on the post even claim that this is what is causing children to go missing in the united states! and i like, wonder how many people shared this post under like, the same circumstance, of not actually reading it fully, and thus not realizing what it was actually claiming.
i guess a very good way to spread disinformation is to just overwhelm the reader with so much bullshit that they will skim read, but also add a couple kernels of truth (ie, peter thiel is a weird creepy fuck who probably wishes he was dracula) and people will share it thinking they’re just sharing what little truth is there, or what little truth is there will make them accept the rest of the bullshit as fact. social media fucking sucks.
I’m gonna do a larger post about this later today, but I feel for that post, and I think it might be an interesting thing to talk about, about how easy it is to get pulled into antisemitism, because of the tactics OP mentions and because we get so constantly bombarded by antisemitic messages that it honestly becomes hard to parse them from the real world.
Not to give myself clemency, but to explain how me and gentiles like me have to work harder
Oh yeah, the whole talk about “elites” that kidnap children to drink their blood is definitely a modernized variant on blood libel, meant to take hold of this website’s userbase’s dislike of rich people and stir them towards anti-semitic conspiracy theories. In fact, checking the notes of that post, there is people pushing Alex Jones and Pizzagate, so its definitely the case that part of why that post went viral is a conscious attempt to popularize anti-semitic ideas on the part of this website’s fairly large neo-nazi userbase.
As a medical professional and a medically complicated human this is very important to me
That’s not wrong.
These are both true
Both are very very true.
These are both true, but more importantly, not mutually exclusive!
Say a patient comes in with chest pain. First time they’ve ever had chest pain. They say they googled it, and clearly they have cancer now!
…no. That’s the first example.
But say a patient has chest pain, they’ve had chest pain for 10 years, every previous doctor has checked for all the obvious causes, and nothing changes.
That’s a completely different scenario. In the first example, the patient doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The condition is new, their knowledge is limited. That’s why we have doctors. But in the second example, the patient is the expert, and the doctor is the one who’s new to the situation. The patient has done all this before, and is very familiar with the pain (condition, etc.) that they have. The doctor is not the one with 10 years of experience. They need to listen, because the patient actually has something they don’t know to add to the conversation.
These two things are not mutually exclusive, they are not the same scenario, and both doctors and patients (but mostly doctors) need to learn to tell the difference and know when to talk, and when to listen.
This is also *highly* relevant to anti-vaxers.
There is a reason that the entire section on dysthymia in my psychology textbooks is basically “this person has been living with this for years longer than you will ever have researched it. help them facilitate their own coping strategies.”
