(no subject)

[treehat]

People are strange. Incredibly, unashamedly strange.

I can think of no other reason a guy would wear a set of incredibly fake half-foot high fox ears around campus. Or, for that matter, an equally fake-looking tail. And even with the people people=strange argument, I just can't figure why you'd wear the getup all the freakin' time. I can understand wearing such a thing while with friends, or at home, but at a college? When you're waiting to meet with a professor during office hours?

Um, WHY?

Thinking back, there was an article about this kid last year in the school rag. If memory serves, he'd been wearing this stuff since high school. Was he that desperate to get beaten up? I just don't understand. Even Doctor Who never wore anything so silly - not even the celery lapel or Colin Baker's wearable headache compare!

Furries are weird. Weird, weird, weirditty weirdiness. Whatever happened to at least keeping the illusion of normalcy?

Comments

[bluerain.livejournal.com]

Some people go out of their way to be "different" because deep down they're terrified there's nothing interesting about them at all.

[eikenboom.livejournal.com]

But that doesn't make people interesting. It just makes perfectly reasonable people look off-kilter.

Eh. I don't get people.

[octan.livejournal.com]

As awesome as Mr. Simpson's comment here is as a general truism, I doubt it applies to furries mostly (though it's hard to say; I haven't conducted the extensive sociological studies on furrydom that some people have). I think for many it's based on the same form of obsession that makes people put "Jesus fish" on their cars... or buy shirts endorsing their favorite webcomic. ;) They're into something so much that they have to make it public even to people who don't take it upon themselves to ask.

And then there are those who just love the way they look wearing them, and conversely don't care if other people don't.