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What do you do when a prejudice starts to invade your mind?
12 years ago
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4748831/
Drama drama drama, etc. I'm not really here to comment on the issue, I would expect everyone to know where I stand.
But one thing that I cannot help but notice is the absolutely shocking homophobia from a terrifying amount of Russian furries in this thread. And now, I find myself looking at the Russian furs on my watchlist, and I can't help but wonder... is this another one of those angry, ignorant people? I suddenly find myself balking when I see Cyrillic, I'm suddenly looking through Russian furs' galleries and feeling extremely uneasy when there is no homosexual art.
...and needless to say, the fact that these reactions are building in me makes me very uncomfortable. Thanks to whatever cultural aspect of Russia that has been building so many virulently anti-gay individuals, I now associate Russians with homophobia. And that is not good, especially not when that homophobia is only coming to light because of all of those who are supporting gay rights in Russia, straight or otherwise.
But I fear my inability to control my emotional response to it. What do you do when you know, intellectually, that thoughts or feelings are prejudiced, but you can't stop them from coming anyways?
Drama drama drama, etc. I'm not really here to comment on the issue, I would expect everyone to know where I stand.
But one thing that I cannot help but notice is the absolutely shocking homophobia from a terrifying amount of Russian furries in this thread. And now, I find myself looking at the Russian furs on my watchlist, and I can't help but wonder... is this another one of those angry, ignorant people? I suddenly find myself balking when I see Cyrillic, I'm suddenly looking through Russian furs' galleries and feeling extremely uneasy when there is no homosexual art.
...and needless to say, the fact that these reactions are building in me makes me very uncomfortable. Thanks to whatever cultural aspect of Russia that has been building so many virulently anti-gay individuals, I now associate Russians with homophobia. And that is not good, especially not when that homophobia is only coming to light because of all of those who are supporting gay rights in Russia, straight or otherwise.
But I fear my inability to control my emotional response to it. What do you do when you know, intellectually, that thoughts or feelings are prejudiced, but you can't stop them from coming anyways?
I really hope things turn around for them soon though... I hope these are simply (very severe) growing pains.
*shrugs* Don't mind the broken fennec. Either way, the fact that you're noticing your feelings on a matter of snap reaction is a very good thing - In a way, it's the first step to being able to change something. Not sure what, but something.
I dunno. I'm talking from a lack of experience and a worryingly consistent detachment from emotion on matters like this, so my advice is about as useful as GLaDOS' in this matter.. Well, she might be a bit more helpful. Somewhat.
I don't necessarily think that's broken, personally. It's a pretty healthy response to not get so wrapped up in what others think about something that you cannot change. I mean, okay, if it's a close friend, that's another story, but random people on the internet? If you can keep your cool and get an honest message out there, there's always the chance of convincing someone else or presenting the best side of someone with an opposing viewpoint, but... generally, not much is to be accomplished with it.
Haha. xD She's probably just make it about herself. x3 "How are you holding up? BECAUSE I'M A POTATO"
Every time i ever played in any game anyone with "rus" or russian letter in name had crapy pc lagging the game(company of heroes , 1400 hours played) or being complete noob(world of tanks , other games)
Most rus furs i met were 100% assholes with few exeptions