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  • Juice@midwest.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    8 days ago

    Don’t think I know any furries, though I think I’ve met a few. I’m probably too old, but that’s alright. Never been to a furry party, but if I knew any I would invite them to my parties. I don’t get the stigma, seems like other people are too insecure in their own identity to accept people experimenting, or settling on an unconventional one. Even when I first heard about it that there were people supposedly having sex while wearing cartoonish animal costumes (which yeah I’m sure it happens, people will at least try to sexualize anything that they like) I realized that the media always sexualizes “new” lifestyles – its one of the most tried and true ways to make people decide that a lifestyle is weird is to make of seem like it is only a sexual fetish.

    90% of CEOs identify with wolves and sharks and lions, when they do it you’re supposed to buy their book called “The Lion’s Share,” and kiss their ass about it. But if some non neuro typical queer kid does it, its some kind of cultural nightmare scenario. Really reveals the root of the stigma IMO.

    They seem nice and I bet their fursonas are soft and comfy, if maybe a little hot inside the suit. Sorry if any of this seems insensitive, I don’t mean it that way. Except toward CEOs, I mean that to be insensitive, if anything I should be more insensitive toward them.



  • As someone who has read those 5 books, and the next 5, and the next 5 and so on, those people never go away. There’s always 5 more books. I still recommend those books but in my experience they’re almost always in-group signalling and not coming up with a new synthesis of the material as understood through their own unique experiences as a worker. Actually those people will be the first to tell you that experience doesn’t matter its actually their experience reading books that matters. If you haven’t read them and agree, then that’s fine; if you have read them and disagree then you haven’t read them good enough, or read these other books for the appropriate context.

    “The traditions of dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living.” is as true for the left as it is any other tradition.









  • I’m glad I was able to intervene when an employee just didn’t show up for a few days, couldn’t get ahold of him. My manager (a good guy) asked me if I thought we should call the cops for a wellness check, I told him we couldn’t call the cops on a disabled black guy.

    Not sure what went down with him but he ended up calling in and he was okay. He either quit shortly after or never came back, I don’t remember. Last I heard he was pursuing his passion teaching skiing to kids with cancer and disabilities. Cool dude.