If you hate yourself, it's time to re-evaluate your life. Such as why the fuck are you a furry? Though I suppose if I was molested by a guy in a cartoon fox costume, I'd hate myself too.
If you hate yourself, it's time to re-evaluate your life. Such as why the fuck are you a furry?
They typically are products of failed socialization. The normal process is for a person to correct their behaviors to enough of a degree to fit in, but a furry (also other classes of degenerate) will instead reject their peers. They do not understand the process of social give-and-take. Thanks to the communicative powers of the internet, these people can achieve their own support groups so all members can circumvent normal social support principles.
It is the furry community as a social support group that will discourage the normal re-evaluation of one's life. Other furries will not wish you well or congratulate personal growth, they may well attack you. This is because it challenges the foundation of the furry community - it is a place for the warped and maladapted, so any correction demands excommunication. Failing to demonize such a member gives an implicit signal to all members that it is not right to reject personal growth, which will trigger cognitive dissonance (and nobody likes feeling cognitive dissonance).
In a way, the furries that hate themselves are on the cusp of becoming normal again. On the other hand, self-loathing plus a refusal to change oneself creates a despicable person.
tl;dr: Furries generally cannot re-evaluate their lives and change themselves. It requires attributes that are already selected against for initial group inclusion.
They typically are products of failed socialization. The normal process is for a person to correct their behaviors to enough of a degree to fit in, but a furry (also other classes of degenerate) will instead reject their peers. They do not understand the process of social give-and-take. Thanks to the communicative powers of the internet, these people can achieve their own support groups so all members can circumvent normal social support principles.
It's the same dynamic with the mentally ill or "mentally ill". They all find each other on Tumblr and convince themselves that they're fine and it's everyone else who has the problem.
I am largely ignorant of Tumblr, but I do agree - I've seen this dynamic unfold in many places online. I hold a mixture of pity and contempt for those involved. Some of the poor fucks may just need a little help, but they'll get dragged down by the ones that revel in spiritual squalor.
If you hate yourself, it's time to re-evaluate your life. Such as why the fuck are you a furry? Though I suppose if I was molested by a guy in a cartoon fox costume, I'd hate myself too.
They typically are products of failed socialization. The normal process is for a person to correct their behaviors to enough of a degree to fit in, but a furry (also other classes of degenerate) will instead reject their peers. They do not understand the process of social give-and-take. Thanks to the communicative powers of the internet, these people can achieve their own support groups so all members can circumvent normal social support principles.
It is the furry community as a social support group that will discourage the normal re-evaluation of one's life. Other furries will not wish you well or congratulate personal growth, they may well attack you. This is because it challenges the foundation of the furry community - it is a place for the warped and maladapted, so any correction demands excommunication. Failing to demonize such a member gives an implicit signal to all members that it is not right to reject personal growth, which will trigger cognitive dissonance (and nobody likes feeling cognitive dissonance).
In a way, the furries that hate themselves are on the cusp of becoming normal again. On the other hand, self-loathing plus a refusal to change oneself creates a despicable person.
tl;dr: Furries generally cannot re-evaluate their lives and change themselves. It requires attributes that are already selected against for initial group inclusion.
It's the same dynamic with the mentally ill or "mentally ill". They all find each other on Tumblr and convince themselves that they're fine and it's everyone else who has the problem.
I am largely ignorant of Tumblr, but I do agree - I've seen this dynamic unfold in many places online. I hold a mixture of pity and contempt for those involved. Some of the poor fucks may just need a little help, but they'll get dragged down by the ones that revel in spiritual squalor.