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Trying to stay Positive...
10 years ago
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I will admit, this is very hard for me. I'm both a Pessimist by nature and a Strong Beta personality. It's a potent mix. What it means is I always see the Worst Possible Outcome of a situation First AND I tend to be very protective and overbearing. I tend to jump to conclusions.
I'll still have mixed feelings for some time over the "Event" that got a lot of Flak on me for what I posted just earlier. I am offering an apology to jumping to a few conclusions without knowing the full story... now that I know a little more about it I still feel Mixed but its a lot easier for me to Overlook it and move on.
As long as people enjoyed themselves and I'm not reading about it in tommorow's Star Tribune or hearing about it on the 10 O'Clock news on channel 9 I'm fine with leaving it and moving on.
I'm sure there are a number of people who view me as a Bigot or a Troll at this point, and let me be very clear that was NEVER my intent.
I'll have to deal with damage control for a bit since it did seem that my last post got a fair amount of attention even if what sparked the fire was a very small part of what I was really more annoyed with at the time (which was the Sexual Harasment of the Tony the Tiger thing- which I will not refute as being anything but wrong and harmful to the Fandom)
But I'm going to move forward. I've already went through and cleaned up a lot of my Journals that were more of a negative theme. I'm sorry for the ruffs and feathers I've ruffled.
The last journal I'll leave up for another 24 hours to settle up a few more replies and apologies. Past that point it will be deleted as well. Those who gave me Positive re-enforcement THANK YOU. And those who gave negative, well you had a right to be mad at me.
Moving forward I am going to try to be more positive and open minded but be aware, this is NOT something that comes very easy to me.
I'll still have mixed feelings for some time over the "Event" that got a lot of Flak on me for what I posted just earlier. I am offering an apology to jumping to a few conclusions without knowing the full story... now that I know a little more about it I still feel Mixed but its a lot easier for me to Overlook it and move on.
As long as people enjoyed themselves and I'm not reading about it in tommorow's Star Tribune or hearing about it on the 10 O'Clock news on channel 9 I'm fine with leaving it and moving on.
I'm sure there are a number of people who view me as a Bigot or a Troll at this point, and let me be very clear that was NEVER my intent.
I'll have to deal with damage control for a bit since it did seem that my last post got a fair amount of attention even if what sparked the fire was a very small part of what I was really more annoyed with at the time (which was the Sexual Harasment of the Tony the Tiger thing- which I will not refute as being anything but wrong and harmful to the Fandom)
But I'm going to move forward. I've already went through and cleaned up a lot of my Journals that were more of a negative theme. I'm sorry for the ruffs and feathers I've ruffled.
The last journal I'll leave up for another 24 hours to settle up a few more replies and apologies. Past that point it will be deleted as well. Those who gave me Positive re-enforcement THANK YOU. And those who gave negative, well you had a right to be mad at me.
Moving forward I am going to try to be more positive and open minded but be aware, this is NOT something that comes very easy to me.
Regardless... not worth the Drama and I did jump to a few conclusions
As for the fetish parties, definitely not my bag, but generally as far as I'm concerned, as long as it's venue appropriate, there's no problem. If a bunch of furries have a diaper party in the middle of the Mall of America, that's a problem. If they do it at a Diaper Party Convention... well it's still not my bag, but they've exercised discretion and are diaper partying responsibly, so there's not a problem. As others have said, this is a fandom that means different things to different people, and invariably there are going to be some things that are more fringe than others. It's about discretion and responsibility -- understanding when and where it's ok to do your diaper partying.
As for the fursecution quip... To say nothing of some people's victim complex, I file that word away in the same file cabinet where I keep "yiff," "pawing off," "murr," "fursona," and the umpteen other furry-isms that escaped from the bowels of hell when this fandom first began. lol