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Title: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Harley (Squeak) on March 31, 2011, 04:55:36 AM
Probably not the best title out there. (Nothing graphic in here, promise.)

We all know there are people who dislike furries.. I've always come to wonder.. Are you/have you been offended by "anti-furry" terms?

Personally, I brush them off. They're empty insults to me.

(if this is inappropriate, please let me know :] )
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Lumi on March 31, 2011, 04:57:29 AM
well i do get offended by alot of things but anti-fur stuff? not really
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Dessum on March 31, 2011, 07:39:48 AM
That kinda thing tends to make me more sad than offended; unnecessary hate is so pointless.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Aklaya on March 31, 2011, 10:23:38 AM
No matter what kind of personality you have someone will hate you for it so why bother getting upset or angery
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Daemon on March 31, 2011, 11:19:03 AM
Depends on the subject. I was made fun of for being a furry once. The kid kept on saying 'I'm hiding my cat.' You don't need secret meaning understanding skills to understand what that means. But otherwise, lets see here, 'Yiffer', 'Fur***', and others, I joke about by calling myself those. And so does one of my friends, but I got something against him...  >:3
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: armagre on March 31, 2011, 11:22:55 AM
as long as it doesnt get to be threatening i personally dont care what they have to say. Im happy for who i am, and i dont care how others see.
Now if it goes to comments like "stupid furry" to "I'm going to beat you up" kind of talk then i would be offended a bit and a bit worried

Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Gelidus on March 31, 2011, 01:01:30 PM
I just let them and move on.

(http://icanhasinternets.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/haters21.jpg)
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Puncia on March 31, 2011, 02:27:54 PM
I never get offended about anything. People have a reason for saying what they do, be it an honest opinion or just ignorance and stupidity.

Then again, I live in a culture much more open minded than what it seems Americans are (in general). I would be seriously surprised if I ever met someone that had anything against gays, to put it like that. So I've never met a "hater" of any kind. Just stupid rich brats talking how the kick-butt touring metal band members looked bad. Even though they were strapping young lads if I may say so myself. They were just wearing Metallica shirts and not Quicksilver. Some quite handsome...

Uhm yeah! So what was I saying? No, I don't get offended. There's no reason to. Furries aren't hurting anyone, nor breaking any laws, so all hateful comments are empty to me.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Dessum on March 31, 2011, 02:33:25 PM
No matter what kind of personality you have someone will hate you for it

That's what upsets me.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Puncia on March 31, 2011, 02:52:06 PM
Why does it upset you, may I ask? It's not your fault and nothing you can do about it. Usually nothing you have to deal with in large amounts either.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Dessum on March 31, 2011, 03:03:14 PM
What upsets me is the fact that human beings can hate each other for no good reason.
I just find it sad the way some people are like that.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: on March 31, 2011, 06:00:51 PM
not much offends me but anti-fur stuff kinda ticks me off
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: .: ♥ Kiniia ♥ :. on March 31, 2011, 06:13:07 PM
I do not get offended very easily at all. The only person in the world who could say anything to hurt me is my mate. And even then it's still hard. I just don't care at all. However, I will protect my mate if anyone tries anything, but even that doesn't offend me, it just irritates me.

I used to get offended easily, and then I used to hit whoever offended me. But now I've had anger management I find it's really hard to get me angry, or really passionate aout anything, other than my mate.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: bones2oo21 on March 31, 2011, 08:33:44 PM
So i just turn around look at em and go "so call me somthin im not"

same thing i do when they call me a redneck for drivin my beat up lifted f150 with the rebel flag lol now i guess i ought to add a flag with a paw print on it and really get kicks out of how people would react to that. i honestly get more of a laugh how they get there feathers all ruffled up about it. no one has yet to think about threatening me physically after they see my NRA sticker on my truck
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Self-sain on March 31, 2011, 10:34:58 PM
Ignorance isn't curable, like a lot of things in our world, you just have to wither
a) let it take over you
b) ignore it.

When friends are furry haters, yea it sucks. When others are, I simply laugh, ignorance is  bliss.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Alexei on March 31, 2011, 10:53:09 PM
In most cases I tend to laugh at haters, their logic is often so flawed to the point that it's laughable.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Fly Boy on March 31, 2011, 10:55:41 PM
Flawed logic from other people is hilarious. XD
Flawed Logic from your friends ticks me off...

I guess It's just me. It's not often that my friends are illogical.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Daemon on March 31, 2011, 11:38:09 PM
I must be real lucky. None of my friends have any problem with me being a furry. And my liking of anthro guys >.> . When I told them both of these things, they nodded, shrugged, and went back to trying to figure out how the hell to click the spoon in the impossible test. It's funny, 'cuz my friends are all the drop-out type people. Not all, but most.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Harley (Squeak) on April 01, 2011, 06:30:00 AM
I own a Ventrilo server, and I get along with everyone on it. Minus one person who, when he found out I was a furry, proceeded to try and act like my psychiatrist.. asking me why I felt I needed to be a furry ,etc. And it wasn't outta curiousity.. it was just plain trolling. :\ He's pretty much said just about every insult he can think of that would apply. I just keep him on mute though ;D
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Carina on April 01, 2011, 07:10:09 PM
Probably not the best title out there. (Nothing graphic in here, promise.)

We all know there are people who dislike furries.. I've always come to wonder.. Are you/have you been offended by "anti-furry" terms?

Personally, I brush them off. They're empty insults to me.

(if this is inappropriate, please let me know :] )

The only thing that insults me is willful ignorance.

Ignorance, or ignorant people, does not mean stupid. It simply means they do not know.

No that does not mean that I am offended by anyone who does not know something. We all have something to learn. I am offended by those that choose to remain ignorant of something they dislike.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Righteousbro on April 02, 2011, 03:46:54 AM
Not offended, but it certainly hurts my heart to see the useless malice and my brain the see the useless stupidity.
People hate what they don't understand. That's what makes me angered.
I don't really get personally offended but I stick up for everyone who's subject to misunderstanding. (In fact I constantly get into strange predicaments where I'm defending both sides of an argument simply because both of them are arguing about something stupid so they draw upon something irrelevant that does deserve to be defended.) I may be a furry but if someone says it as a generalization I don't take personal offense and treat the fandom like I'm defending a separate entity, this changes if they say something like "You're [__________] because you're a furry" in which I case I do take it personally since they brought me into it. I still try not to be offended in myself but I certainly am angered by their idiocy.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Frost on April 03, 2011, 03:48:22 PM
Verry little ofends me, anti-fur terms are at the bottom of my list of stuff that dosen't offend me.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Mathais on April 04, 2011, 10:30:21 PM
That kinda thing tends to make me more sad than offended; unnecessary hate is so pointless.

This is probably best said... I dont let peoples words get to me, in fact with theatre sometimes its useful for peoples hurtful words ^^
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Buddywolf on April 05, 2011, 02:43:27 AM
I tend to yawn and walk on by.  show them I just don't care.  oddly it worked but I think it has to do with my history of not caring  :S
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Kin Kitsune on April 05, 2011, 05:41:03 PM
I used to be... then I grew up. Nastiness is part of humanity, furs included. XP
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Black-Horse on July 29, 2011, 04:35:26 AM
I do get offended by anti furs, but i dont engage, But when thers some1 agaisnt horses themselves or of any kind, I Engage.. cus i have that instinct for my horse Roxy, I love her. and its like a white man insulting a black man. idk.. it kinda goes same when some1 insults a friend of mine, i step right in and go defensive, and yes it offends me the my friend is being offended or worse, by some1.
Title: Re: (Sensitive) Do you get offended?
Post by: Ares the Ram on July 29, 2011, 04:40:21 AM
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