# Hostile Dialect; A Word, Please.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 27, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375 "2008-08-27T01:53:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/146 "2008-08-27T18:28:03Z")

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So, **ivan** am I not allowed to be straight furry? Because if I have to start learning how to be a lesbian, I need to let my boyfriend know. (Who’s not a furry. And I’m not sure if he knows I’m a furry.)

> [@Cisco](#):
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> Damn, who would’ve thought the furry thread, inspired by a pit thread, would spawn a pit thread?

_raises hand_ Although does this really count? I mean, well, it’s _ **ivan astikov** _. I was hoping for a rabid slavering thing about how we’re corrupting children and we all like to fuck goats or something. Do I get to count this as a pit thread for myself? I’ve never been pitted before.

> [@Darth Sensitive](#):
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> Silver Tyger Girl is, in my experience, an interesting and fun member of the dope.

_blushes_ Aw, I didn’t even realize I was well known.

I should point out to everyone (that’d include you **Diogenes** ) that nobody would know that I was a furry if I didn’t tell them. I _don’t_ wear cat ears. I _don’t_ dress up or go to cons or even buy anthro art. I have some Japanese prints with tigers in my house, does that count? The furriest thing I do is pretend to be a tyger while online. (I’ll admit that the word ‘I am a tyger’ were probably ill-chosen. I _pretend_ to be tyger when online.)

The problem isn’t that people don’t take us seriously, it’s that they think we’re something that we’re not (at least most of us - I’ll admit there are some fucking weird people in furdom. But I’ve seen REALLY fucking weird people in Digimon fandom, in Pokemon fandom, in Star Trek fandom, etc. Let’s just say, some Digimon fans scare me. A lot.)

> [@neutron star](#):
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> Damn right. If you’re going to dress up like a fox and fuck someone dressed up like a cat who has a crusty hole in the crotch of his/her costume to allow said access, I’m sorry, but I’m going to laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And convulse. Then point and laugh some more.

Ah, someone’s seen that CSI episode. Hate to break it to you but NO ONE does that. Because that’s fucking stupid (yeah, let’s wear twenty pounds of fake fur and foam and then have sex! Because heat exhaustion doesn’t mean anything!)

Wait, why am I responding to a known idiot?

Could you guys, I dunno, swear or something? I’m not feeling the hate. Thanks for brightening my day! (Woo! I got pitted. Too bad it’s by known idiots, but still, it counts right?)

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