What's your problem?
May. 9th, 2006 09:59 amIt seems that many furs had a childhood psychological trauma, whose
particulars relate to the pheno they have now. For example, if your
childhood problem was that a rapist treated you like a sex toy, offering no
love at all in a situation where love is typically present, your pheno is
likely to be a bear. A bear's problem is emotional warmth and how much
of it to offer. A typical ursine mistake is to offer too much, to
ensure that he is never cold-hearted like that childhood rapist.
A dog's problem is loyalty and how much of it to give. A typical canine mistake is to offer continuing loyalty to a "master" who clearly doesn't deserve it. I suspect that the dog/wolf distinction in the fandom relates to the "good dog/bad dog" duality in the phenotype: the dog is satisfied with his own level of loyalty while the wolf rejects himself as inadequate.
I'm not sure what the problem is with foxes. There certainly are a lot of them in the fandom! Being canids, I would expect that their problem relates to loyalty in some way. I have heard the phrase "situational loyalty" when referring to foxes, but this doesn't seem to put their problem on the same terms as the dog and wolf.
In college I had a feline roommate who tried to tell me what a cat's problem is, but I didn't get it. It had something to do with vengeance as the primary motivation for doing things, but again this does not seem to be phrased in the same way as the ursine and canine above—what is a typical trauma for a cat and what do they tend to do too much of to ensure that they don't do too little?
So, what's your f**king problem and how does it typify your pheno? This is a public post—avoid personal detail!
A dog's problem is loyalty and how much of it to give. A typical canine mistake is to offer continuing loyalty to a "master" who clearly doesn't deserve it. I suspect that the dog/wolf distinction in the fandom relates to the "good dog/bad dog" duality in the phenotype: the dog is satisfied with his own level of loyalty while the wolf rejects himself as inadequate.
I'm not sure what the problem is with foxes. There certainly are a lot of them in the fandom! Being canids, I would expect that their problem relates to loyalty in some way. I have heard the phrase "situational loyalty" when referring to foxes, but this doesn't seem to put their problem on the same terms as the dog and wolf.
In college I had a feline roommate who tried to tell me what a cat's problem is, but I didn't get it. It had something to do with vengeance as the primary motivation for doing things, but again this does not seem to be phrased in the same way as the ursine and canine above—what is a typical trauma for a cat and what do they tend to do too much of to ensure that they don't do too little?
So, what's your f**king problem and how does it typify your pheno? This is a public post—avoid personal detail!
