I couldn't care less what people call me or say about me.

Why would you expect me to think of a white person when you say African?

I guess I get affected by the nerd stereotype sometimes.

Chair Force :<

Well, at least I didn't have to think long:
Very classy

I hope saying this is okay within the forum rules.

I absolutely hate stereotypes about Mormons. Especially considering easily 99% of them are false.

White Christian from the south, so most everybody seems to think I'm some evangelic asshat who watches NASCAR and is incredibly racist. Most people also seem to think that being a Southern Christian makes you one of those "DON'T DO IT OR YOU'LL BURN IN HELL, BOY!" types. It does not.

Then there's the all around stereotypes about Americans. 99% of which are based on hyperbole and smugness.

"Oh, your government took a military action of some sort? That means all of America's citizens are blood thirsty Christian extremists who want to kill anybody who doesn't share their viewpoint!"

Then there are the basic stereotypes about all of Christianity; people seem to be under the impression that we all share the mindset of those few jerkoffs that started the famous "God hates [censored]." campaign.

And, though this probably isn't exactly valid, I am of very, very, very Scottish decent, and my step father is of very, very, very German decent. We pick at one another often, he alludes that all Scotts or people of Scottish decent lie with sheep, and I allude that all Germans are sadistic killing machines. Its all for fun, of course. Neither of us take any bit of it seriously. The really entertaining part of it is that I'm actually Danish and German as well.

Lets see, school-wise, being the only Asian among a giant majority of Hispanics in the poverty-stricken area, everyone in all my classes I attended assumes me to be the smart one or the "most likely to run a business". Other then that, I was shun or avoided all together.

One stereotype that I sometimes allow to grind my gears is stereotypes about people with ADD. I've seen countless character in Hollywood movies who supposedly have "ADD" and those are all portrayed as being hyperactive which doesn't even make sense since it's ADHD that is the disorder with hyperactivity, that is after all what the H stands for, and even people with ADHD are not so hyperactive as media would have us believe. People with ADD are also always portrayed as simply being unable to focus on any single task in movies and comedy and you'll often see something like two characters talking and then a butterfly passes by and the person with ADD suddenly starts following it seemingly having lost all attention for the conversation at hand. Which is I must admit a half truth but only that. ADD does make you lose focus more easily but only if your other senses are being barraged with information, especially in the case of sound. Let me explain.

A person with ADD or Attention Deficit Disorder has a problem with ignoring things, where someone with a brain that does not have ADD can focus on reading a book and can with relative ease (depending though on the scale of the scenario) ignore a couple of people discussing something nearby, the brain of someone with ADD tries to multitask instead and while reading the book also listens in on the conversation. And if someone puts some music on the brain of someone with ADD will also try to process that information along with the noise of someone tapping their fingers on a table. Now all of a sudden you can't focus on the book because you can only process so many different sources of information at a given time and instead of focusing on everything you end up focusing on nothing.

So for everyone even someone with ADD, if a butterfly passes by they will not go "oooohhhh butterfly, me follow!" but rather "oh, a butterfly, better focus on that conversation instead of it". But if someone puts some music on you can't go "oh some music, I'm going to ignore it and focus on the conversation" but rather the person with ADD will both engage in conversation and listen to the music at the same time. And that's fine, everyone can focus on two or three things, but when there are too many distractions you stop being able to focus.

ADD does come with its benefits though I've often noticed people talking to each other and then a 3rd person comes and asks one of the two people talking a question or passes a brief message to them if they're in a hurry and the person who is engaged in conversation doesn't seem to notice, not unless the conversation is broken. But it's impossible not to notice when you have ADD, you simply can't not notice it. So I've never had it happen to me that I've missed something someone said if the environment was relatively distraction free aside from that one specific distraction. But the biggest downside is of course the total inability to focus on anything if there is enough distractions. I for example was attending a small X-mas family gathering at my grandmas house the other day and with all the relatives in her leg of the family there conversations tend to happen in small groups, and with many people talking at the same time and me listening on different levels but still listening to them all I was completely unable to recall the main points of a counter argument I had against an argument I was having with a cousin of mine. It wasn't until on the way back home after I'd left the abundance of noise that I recalled what points I should have brought up in my argument. So people with ADD can often appear a little slow even when they're not really that slow in a more controlled environment, yet this is played on in every movie with a character that has ADD and I don't think I've even seen a single intelligent character with ADD in a movie so far.

But what really grinds my gears is when people connect ADD with an inability to read or write a lot. "People who don't read the forum rules probably have ADD", "people who have an average of 3 to 5 words per post probably just have ADD", are examples of the kind of attitude ADD can be given. Yet people with ADD read all the same in silent environments as other people and I myself have read around 200 books (and then I mean at least 300+ page novels, and yes I know, I know, you've read more but I'm just trying to make an example) in the near 19 years I've lived, of which for around 4 to 5 years I did not know how to read. And some of the posts I've made here have been pretty decent in length. (Or well, I at least think some of them have been at least medium long. But not just short as people would expect of people with ADD.)

So yeah, I do try to let insults to people with ADD fly past me but they do sometimes rub me the wrong way.

Any stereotypes I come across (like about bein thieves and stuff, which are quite rare (being asked to say chicken when I visit Warrington is annoying though that isn't really a stereotype)) don't really bother me, as they are mostly over the Internet or as a joke. I know they are not true, and that is all that matters.

From all I've gathered most furries are in it for the six. When I type 'furry' into the google image search... the results are well.....

I'm really not trying to be offensive, just help me understand.

Because I'm good with computers means I can fix any problem whatsoever. I'M A GENIUS.

Only people I have ever had knocking on my door to convert me are mormons, and I had a leaflet posted about inteligent design around that time... Though the knock on your door stuff is more jehovas witness stuff.

Only things I know about mormons are they have their own book to go with the bible, multiple wives and thats about it.

Oh God, why

http://d37nnnqwv9amwr.cloudfront.net/entries/icons/original/000/006/482/template.jpg

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lol+face&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

Sigh, it was a good attempt from my phone

You can do that with a lot of things, though. Anything linked to a fetish. Though furries probably get the strongest results because the loud minority are very loud.

You would help your case by explaining what it really means. I have an idea, but I'm not totally sure myself.

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=41747236

But let us stop before we slowly turn this forum into a subreddit.

The seeds have been planted, it begins!

People think that just because I'm some pale-faced, dark-eyed, constantly scowling individual who doesn't like people in general and who enjoys sharp pointy objects assumes that I'm some crazed murderer who keeps the bodies of my victims in the basemant. I am not a savage! I bury my victims in the backyard where the smell won't bother me, thank you very much.

Oh come on, even if there is a lot of furry porm it's no a testament of how furries are but simply how humans are. We make a lot of porm. And since we're spamming memes, did you all forget about rule 34 ?

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Wouldn't that depend on if you are talking about nationality or race? Because, yes your nationality is African. But, your race is caucasian, which (usually) traces back to Europe, which applies to you, being British and Boer.

And when I type "anime" into Google Image search, I would think that all anime consisted of scantily-clad not-sure-if-18-yet women.

Needless to say, learning from what Google Images returns is a rather substandard method at best.

You want the big, long explanation? Fine.

Furry, in the broadest sense, refers to a range of media - stories, drawings, music, etc - that have a central theme consisting of, or a number of characters that are, anthropomorphic. The easiest way for most to imagine this is to think back to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Mickey Mouse - they are all examples of anthropomorphic characters. Like all groups and cultures, there are those who take it to a more "advlt" level - expressing their sixual desires / fetishes onto an anthropomorphic character, as has been noted, is relatively common in the furry fandom, there are parallels and counterparts in the anime fandom and the Star Wars fandom.

The Internet, and media in general, tend to place greater emphasis on the more vocal members of any community - we could look at the Skyrim forum as an example. This phenomena is known in statistics as a self-selection bias - people "select" themselves by being very vocal about a given issue or topic, and those who either aren't as vocal or choose not to make their opinion known aren't typically counted. A relatively large segment of the furry fandom finds greater appreciation in the anthropmorphic body then in the human body - this increases the amount of "self-selection" that occurs in furry artwork and other media in terms of skewing towards advlt material. Of course, not all furries are artists, and there are a large number of furry artists who will not draw advlt art as a matter of principle.

I would be one of the last people to say that there are no X people within the furry fandom - the fandom is very, very inclusive and because of this openness does attract a wide variety of people, some of which may not even really place emphasis on the furry fandom, but value our inclusive nature and willingness to accept just about anyone.

Oh, and if you want a very nice read, you can read http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/770_s1.pdf on furries (much of the research data she obtains is from furry conventions, which obviously can skew the resulting information a bit).

So...... Bestiality? Only Furries prefer their animals cartoonish and human-like?

What's the appeal of Furries when you take away the sixual aspect? I mean, I like Bugs Bunny, but I don't think I'd like to pretend to be his bastard offspring.

Again, not bestiality.

Human-like? Yes. Cartoonish? Not always.

And you can take away the sixual aspect from anything and still find the core thing - an appeal to being non-human / liking a non-human form, in the case of furries. Everything, however, can and will be sixualized by someone in some way - we need only look at the Internet for evidence of that.