Furries and Second Life - continued...............

So why are Furries hated?
Well for one thing, like ANY outcast and socially stigmatized group, a very small percentage of them ARE creepy perverted assholes, who are loudest and most noticeable, and thus get identified as representative of the entire subculture.
Most Furries I've met on SL are harmless and innocuous. They wear the anthropomorphic animal avatars yes, but they just hang out, chat about TV shows and movies, play in the combat sims, chill with their friends.
Their profiles are nice and normal and non-sexual, and if they cyber they keep it to themselves.
These are the majority of the Furry population.
They feel a kinship to the animal inside everyone, (and don't kid yourselves, humans are animals, just because we talk and wear clothes doesn't make us inherently superior to other animals, just more smug).
Most Furries are Furries to express their connection to the base nature of animals, and we are animals. It isn't a fetish for most.
But these aren't the Furries you hear about are they? No, most of you, if you've heard about Furries, you've heard about the lonely loser types drawing cartoon animal porn and fucking each other wearing fursuits, who cry about being "fursecuted" when they're harassed, and suchlike.
Which of course are also generalizations.
And therein lies the rub; Misinformation; there ARE a few Furries like that, the perverted yiffers who act as if their kink is akin to racial identity, and those are the ones the haters lock onto. They distort and exaggerate. 5% of furries becomes ALL furries.
A few yiffers crying Fursecution becomes the entire population demanding to be accepted despite being perverted freaks.
See that's what haters do.
Think about it.
I'm sure most of you reading know a few gay people. Would you ever think of your gay friends as being pedophiles?
No, not if they're your friends. But how often, for example, have you heard church folk loudly intoning that gays can never be allowed to adopt because they're ALL pedophiles?
You know it isn't true. Sure there are a few gay pedophiles, but there are a few straight pedophiles too now aren't there? Would you ever assume every single hetero white male on earth must diddle small children just because a few actually do?
No, it's a ridiculous broadstroke with no logical basis.
But Furries are something different, more so than gay people. And at least online, it's easier to judge them. You hear haters insisting that "Furfags are into real bestiality".
I've yet to encounter ANY proof that ANY furry, even the small percentage of genuinely perverted ones, want to fuck their dog.
They may want to have sex with someone DRESSED as a dog, but not an actual dog.
But that's how hatespeech works, especially online.
So why are Furries mistreated on SL?
Because they're there. Because haters are bored and need someone to shit on to make themselves feel important. Because they can be.
That's how hate works.
Latch onto something different and weird, amplify the worst of it, ignore the best of it completely, and spread disinformation to the uninformed, all to just have something to do when you're bored.
Personally my only beef against any Furries are the ones who call themselves herms, as if it's a magical fantasy to be mix-and-match.
Being intersexed myself in real life, that kind of ignorance of reality bothers me, BUT, I don't harp about it, I don't yell at them for it, and I certainly don't judge the entire culture for these few who irritate me.
Some people sadly think they have a right to dump their prejudices on everyone.
The saddest part of it though, is that the haters fail to see they're as obsessed, if not moreso, than those they attack, because they devote more energy into spreading the hate than their targets do just being who they are.
So that's my opinion on why Furries on SL are treated badly.
Hate, ignorance, and misinformation, based on judging an entire group on the actions of but a handful of them.
So go buy a Furrie a prim flower, or a wearable cup of coffee. They're not all so bad. And it's a lot easier than devoting all that energy to blind pointless hate.
I mean there are children starving in the city you live in, I'd rather devote energy to a soup kitchen feeding real people than sitting on my ass at a computer all day mouthing off at complete strangers just because they weird me out a little.
We now return you to whichever life you're living.
By Penance Sautereau