I’d like to preface this by saying that all comments that are seen as hateful or specist will be removed immediately. I do welcome any comments that are on the opposing side, so long as they are respectful. I’m fine with debates, so long as they are done courteously.

Now, onto the topic of the journal. I’ve noticed more and more how specific species have been cast into specific roles. These stereotypes, that I refer to as specist, have become nearly impossible to ignore, at least for me it has. I believe that the most prominent recipients of these stereotypical roles are rabbits, otters, and what I believe to be the most ‘popular,’ foxes. By this list, I’m sure that you all know where I’m going with this. These three species always seem to be placed in the ‘submissive’ roles in stories, if not the ‘slut’ role. Now, I’m not saying that I don’t enjoy these stories, I have several of them saved to my computer, but there is such a massive difference between the number of stories where they bottom and where they top that it’s become annoying. I’m not sure how exactly it started, but it seems to be becoming more and more popular with less and less stories and artwork of those three species acting as tops. In hindsight, I believe that was part of the reason I had my buizel character have a dominant personality.

I’ve also noticed that dragons seem to be placed as the dominant types more often than not. And out of the ones where there is a dragon being submissive, it’s generally another dragon that they are submitting to. It almost seems as if the larger the creatures are in real life the more people see it as dominant while the smaller they are, the they are seen as submissive.

Well, I think that’s all I have to say at this time. Does anyone agree or disagree with my assessment on the general public’s view? So long as it’s civil, I’m happy to hear and respond to any comments.