Furry community question!
Do people make unjustified assumptions about your personality/traits based on your species?
Conversely, do people make accurate assumptions about your personality based on species?
There's also a whole thing here where I've noticed that species archetypes are often pretty different for folks who are on the more casual side of species identification versus folks who are more therian or otherkin.
(Wolves are kind of an index case for that.)
@starkatt yes and yes ^.^’’’
@Oneironott If I may ask, what assumptions were those?
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@starkatt while not personality traits persay, back when i was a skunk, a lot of folks assumed in some way that i was into skunk spray :P
And i mean
Yeah ^^’
@starkatt nowadays i get it in form of folks saying that “otter suits me well” because i’m very aquatic and sappyhappy and chill n.n’ which is super flattering
@starkatt I think “foxes are libidinous” is largely artifactual despite some descriptions of fennecs. Fandom full of horny folks jumping each other’s bones partly online? And fandom where a lot of people present as red foxes because they’re iconic and charismatic? My support here is that skunks, rabbits and horses all get similarly typecast as The Horny Species.
@starkatt I'm not sure, actually! I think I confuse people because I'm three varying species. :-P
@starkatt I mean, speaking as an ageless being of wisdom and power who also likes bellyrubs... mostly spot on? Except for the ones who think we're all crazy.
@starkatt Until three weeks ago, absolutely.
Now, no clue. ^v^
@starkatt do all the times people tried to sell me acid at the arcade count?
And no, I don’t own rocket skates. VERY FEW OF US DO.
@starkatt given that few people know what kind of critter I am--people don't usually make assumptions about me based on my species. ;)
although given my secondary phenotype of "dragon," yes, people make assumptions, and yes, they're usually accurate. :D
@starkatt Yes.
Am ✨plush✨, that comes with all kinds of assumptions that vary wildly.
@mawr I'm actually kind of curious what those have been?
The whole "foxes are incredibly libidinous" thing is a complicated one for me. A lot of the time it's accurate, and a big part of me kind of resents that it is. Other times in my life it's been extremely not correct. For a while I was also dating an ace fox, so that makes it feel a bit more irritating.