I saw a furry at Safeway.

[Chimera]

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

A quick Google search suggests there are regular Furry meets at the Edmonton Mall.

You realize now that Google now has you flagged as a furry. You’re going to get wonderful targetted ads…

[minionkat]

I saw a girl wearing a fox tail a week ago Friday night. Just walking down the street. Good for her. There were hundreds of people around, but I only noticed one guy really gawking. I got the impression that he wouldn’t know what a furry was. She was just a girl with a fox tail. I think he just thought it was odd.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@Chimera

You realize now that Google now has you flagged as a furry. You’re going to get wonderful targetted ads…

Nope.

i never signed up for Google anything.

[palacheck]

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

Where I live, the locals tried to burn down the mosque, calling it a "
terrorist training center".

Back to square 1.

Those fools. The Madrasa is the smaller building around back.

[Ethilrist]

@Lasciel

I have seen a strip-teasing faun tho. He was funny as hell.

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Oh, hey, I’ve dressed as a faun, serving for a fantasy-themed SCA feast. Does that mean I’m a furry, or just weird?

[BigT]

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

Nope.

i never signed up for Google anything.

You’re still using the same IP and browser fingerprint. Signing up has nothing to do with it. Though that joke is obviously inaccurate–it takes more than one lookup to label you a furry.

[Simple_Linctus]

@2gigch1

It’s stuff like this that gives me hope for humanity more than almost anything else. As one type of “harmless yet viewed as weird by the general population group” after another goes public, the ability for the masses to accept different does not equal evil is slowly bumped along and the world becomes a better place.

My personal mindset is far different than it was 10 years ago, which is even further than 25. I still despise evil and nasty people, but my experience has definitely peeled groups which I can only find to be different away from the core group of those who concern me, and has made the world a nicer place.

I know not everyone shares my view, but I find it interesting that as I age the ‘folks who would persecute Mr. Furpants’ seem to stand out as more odd than those who wear fur pants.

Indeed, it’s brilliant but there is a big risk still, it’s only a tiny part of the globe that shares values of tolerance and individual self determination. Much much much more work needs to be done.

By the way we should never lose the right to laugh at furries, and that could also happen. Fortunately there is no history of rampant furry-burning or enslavement or similar so there probably won’t be hate crime legislation passed… but be vigilant.

[Balance]

@Ethilrist

Oh, hey, I’ve dressed as a faun, serving for a fantasy-themed SCA feast. Does that mean I’m a furry, or just weird?

Did you do a striptease? I’m not sure if that’s relevant to your position on the weirdness scale, but I feel it has to be asked.

[turtledove_river]

Kind of related. I saw my first real life Brony a couple of weeks ago at Walmart.

[purplehorseshoe]

@Lasciel

… I have seen a strip-teasing faun tho. He was funny as hell.

(He had on his “legs” of course, but was bare-chested with a long scarf that he did a sort of “dance of the seven veils” with. It was hysterical.)

I feel left out. I really wish I could have seen this!

(YouTube … ?)

[levdrakon]

How do you know it’s a furry and not just someone goofing around in a costume?

[Novelty_Bobble]

Consider me educated. I’ve never seen or heard of this concept before. Nor did I know what “cosplay” was, or “brony” seems like the world mostly passes me by.
Sounds like weird behavior to me but ultimately harmless unless taken to extremes (which also applies to pretty much all human quirks and hobbies)

[Gagundathar]

@Ethilrist

pause

Oh, hey, I’ve dressed as a faun, serving for a fantasy-themed SCA feast. Does that mean I’m a furry, or just weird?

I am sensing an excluded middle fallacy here.