Kids complain about the furry infestation at their school

submitted by xoenix from twitter.com

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (16 children)

I don't think I have an hour to spare for that particular video, but I did chuckle at the explanation one of the kids gave as to why the furry is allowed to wear a mask: "Because they think they are so cool."

By the time you're outta Kindergarten, at least one teacher should have explained to you that furry shit is Never cool!

[–]xoenix[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

They also said its because the furries have mentally ill parents who are putting these ideas in their heads.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Numerically speaking, there must be a pair of furries out there somewhere who were accidentally straight for enough time to pump DNA into each other, right?

[–]notafed 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Probably incedental to furry activities. They likely don't even know who the sperm donors are and it's not a guarantee that the mother is the one that actually carried them to term.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"I'm a furry, and I'm a seahorse. As a male, I carry the young, so..."

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I think it's more likely the consequence of unlimited unsupervised internet access vis smart devices.

Furries have an interesting history as a subculture and you can trace their history back as a group pretty far. It's a pre-internet phenomenon actually. And it seems like they've always had a lot of infighting between the more innocent "I like cute animals" wing and the more sexually lurid elements. I don't think these elements are naturally the same either.

I think that probably the rise of film as a medium likely triggered some kind of paraphilic response in some portion of the population that later became furries, this was likely increased in the 80's and 90's due to the prevalence of home video. The development of the internet allowed the more lurid elements space to spread. And I think the problematic issue of having cute animal characters engaged in sexual situations is going to mean that children are going to inevitably stumble across it. I don't think many are getting these ideas directly from the parents.

I think basically anyone born before the 1980's had no clue what the fuck was on the internet and didn't realize this shit was out there until very recently. It will be interesting to see how the people who grew up with this sort of unlimited internet access will raise their own kids. I suspect that they'll be more aware of the kind of content that can exist and be a lot smarter about how they let their kids access the internet.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I think that probably the rise of film as a medium likely triggered some kind of paraphilic response in some portion of the population that later became furries,

It was Bugs Bunny dressing in drag that did it!

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

or Robin Hood

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You've got to admit, Maid Marian was a fox though, ;p.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Could be? Wouldn't be surprised if there was some minority of people into that, and some minority of people totally and utterly morally outraged at it. Though without the internet and the ability to self publish your opinions to the world, their thoughts will be lost to history.

I suspect that a good portion of these subcultures are very very old. Crossdressing for example shows up in ancient texts from time to time so I am almost certain that it has existed for millennia. Though I very much doubt you will ever find any literature written by cross dressers themselves until recently. Before the advent of the printing press literacy being the sole purview of the educated scholarly class and all that.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

also interesting to trace the de-compartmentalization of the internet over the decades: 80s you had BBS bulletin boards and mailing lists, and the 90s and 00s were dominated by specific fan or political forums and bigger places like Elfwood or Archive of Our Own--and the furries were definitely not a minor part of all this, probably the #2 or 3 subculture after slash writers

social media was uniform and accessible nationwide, their members largely college students, famous as the home of conformist, purge-happy, nitpicking, identitarian "SJWism" early 2010s; I think it was also important that campuses couldn't really protest AGAINST the nice smileysmiley African American president, so a lot of frustration built up and was expressed in like rioting over how classes starting with Gilgamesh were "too white" or how the MALE janitors hung the TP and not like Yemeni genocide

there were still specialty websites and blogs, but the left-lib news sites that'd given Obama a hard time (Daily Kos, Josh Marshall) and ended his Reality Distortion Field were seized and synchronized 2016 because Madame President wasn't going to have the peasants KNOWING what she was doing, ditto FB and Twitter warning that it was illegal to look at WikiLeaks or The NY Post; like they even shut down most comments sections to keep people from sharing leaked news

so just as the educated youth were mobilized and given a glimmer of hope they were promptly thwarted, and that's gonna intensify their mental sublimation and make their politics ... weirder

nowadays Tumblr's a ghost town and Facebook's just where your uncle panics that every gas station in America will be blown up at 3:55 tonight/your aunt gleefully posts that the Marshals are coming for Trump tomorrow, leaving Twitter now as the only happening place for under-40s (Musk or no, since he'd 1. be the first to share litterbox stories and 2. blow eight figures developing the X Corp Automated Dry Waste Collector)

[–]LtGreenCo 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Cool? Shit. If we had kids like that when I was in middle school we'd have beat the everloving shit out of them every day until they stopped being a furry. And this was the 80s so the teachers wouldn't have given a shit. Not saying it would've been right but, I do believe bullying used to provide a service of sorts, albeit a barbaric one, to children, to give them a preview what life will be like if they keep being weird. And when you don't have that service any longer, this is what happens. It's just a harsh reality.

[–]NastyWetSmear 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Bullying does suck... But like a lot of things in life that sucks, it helps to teach important lessons as well. We learn to understand social languages other than the spoken, take in what is accepted and what is shunned, learn to connect with people who share our interests, learn how to form social groups... It's all very Lord Of The Flies, but it's much like dogs nipping at each other and playing rough - They learn to understand their world better, and some of the more harsh lessons stick with them all through life.

There needs to be a better way of teaching these lessons that doesn't leave some kids traumatized and broken, or shooting up a shopping mall, or joining a gay furry sex cult, but I guess it's better than the idea of simply accepting all deviancy and degeneracy with a smile.

That being said, in reality, furries are mostly harmless. It's the ones in the suits and diapers soiling themselves in public to get hard that make it all an issue. Teaching these kids that wearing a mask in public and acting like a cat at all times is totally fine seems like a good way to walk them right down that road, sadly.

[–]LtGreenCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

When I was in 5th grade for the span of about 4 months I got beat up by a few 8th graders almost every day on my walk home from school, simply because I made a dumb mom joke at their expense once. Yeah it sucked but I didn't spiral into a hellish psychological abyss. I didn't join any cults or buy any guns. And like a little bitch I tattle-told on them to my dad. And instead of calling the school or calling the kids' parents, he taught me to man up a little, gave me some lessons in self-defense and avoidance tactics and tricks. They helped a little but eventually the kids got bored anyway and it stopped happening.

Anecdotal, I know. But back then bullying was just a fact of life for some kids and despite that, there wasn't an epidemic of Columbines or kids cutting themselves or jumping onto train tracks. So maybe... just maybe... the insane amounts of hand-holding and coddling and adult intervention kids started getting at the turn of the millennium wasn't the best idea. Just a thought.

Now did I deserve a 4 month ass-kicking for one stupid mom joke? Absolutely not. But I think the experience ultimately made me a little more resilient.

[–]NastyWetSmear 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Alright, you know we all want to know: What was the joke?

[–]LtGreenCo 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I don't remember exactly but it wasn't so much a joke-joke as it was a mean-spirited inference that their moms were whores. And the kicker is I said it not to them, but to another kid, who then snitched. So yeah I probably deserved at least a few bitch-slaps for it.

[–]NastyWetSmear 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Phhwwaaa! I reckon this "Other Kid" was overdue for a 4 month beating.