Probably because old folks know that mermaids are a myth and don't identify as mermaids ( although ai think I saw a docuseries about a 30ish year old thinking he was one) Where as furries bleed the line between what might be fetish realm, and what might be some people actually believing/thinking they are a furry animal--which would be considered a delusion.
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Somebody saying "I am a mermaid" would be looked at strangely too.
And dressing as a mermaid and going to mermaid convention to fuck other mermaids.
Probably because furries are a fetish and mermaids come from mythology
50% of mythology is just fetish, just check out Greek mythology. People most definitely masturbated to mythology in the past based on the amount of fetish oozing out of the stories.
You can't tell me the ancient Greek equivalent to furries didn't think Zeus transforming into animals and fucking was hot.
Bist because the idea is older doesn't make it any less weird.
It's like one of those irregular verbs. I've got a cool fantasy, you're a pervert, he's in jail, etc.
I mean, the point of a mermaid isn't that it's a sexy looking fish, it's that other than its tail, it looks like beautiful human women. In some stories, sailors don't even realize they're taking to mermaids because their tails are underwater. Also, mermaids were generally considered bad omens or malicious entities, and when they did seduce humans, it was usually to kill them, so it's not like the folklore was very pro-mermaid sex.
Now ask them about reversed mermaid
Being with a mermaid is also an outlandish idea
I was gonna make a joke that it's also an idea that's on so many street corners and coffee cups. However after googling I found out that it's a siren on the Starbucks logo and not a mermaid. My joke fails on both humour and fact.
There's a difference?
What is a siren, but a mermaid?
there are different depictions of sirens. most commonly they are depicted as creatures similar to harpies. the mermaid form is second most common i think.
Because people didn't dress up as mermaids and go to cons and express how deep down inside they truly are a mermaid, and have a high likelihood of fucking someone else who also felt the same way.
Uh... I hate to tell you this but people absolutely dress as mermaids and do conventions... There's a whole home industry of people who make custom silicon tails.
didn't
Past tense.
Dunno what to tell yeh mate, it's about as oldif not older than Furry culture. Weeki Watchee springs started a whole thing with their Mermaid shows and the subculture basically took off from like the early 60's... And was probably about as horny as a lot of other subcultures that started around the same time.
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I went to dragon con one year, people were dressed in all sorts of costumes even though it's not a furry con. And I know the hotels where the con is are incredibly hard to book. That said just once I want some senior executive to accidently book a room in one because he has some meeting with a potential client of something and just so happen to click it at the right time.
He shows up and is completely bewildered by all the people in costumes. "you'll never believe it mark. I rode down the elevator with a robot and I swear to God... Tiny from Bob's burgers"
My partner went to a convention in another city. He was caught off guard by the number of dudes in leather and fetishwear that he saw around the hotel when he first arrived but just thought the city must have a diverse and adventurous night life.
The next morning on his way out he spotted a poster, it was "The Bear Ball" weekend, some disco themed big gay guy event, and the hotel he was in was the headquarters, which explains why most of the other attendants of his conference were being housed in a different hotel.
He said he had some great people watching for the next couple days.
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I would say that if anyone is upset about an older furry, then that person is living proof that furry is a sexualised fetish. Why else would it upset them?
To be fair, I think people looked at the folks who were into mermaids as outlandish too. "Been around for a long time" doesn't mean the same thing as "totally accepted socially".
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Good one, M137
My brother in Christ, werewolves existed for at least 150 years and shape shifting goes back hundreds more. A beast that becomes a person... What could that possibly be for? A person becoming a beast is easy and the not weird part of folk history that didn't upset any kind of established morals. Violence is a part of life. Hot wolf dick that escapes into the night after making sweaty sheets? More difficult to keep as an oral tradition. Well, in stories at least.
Egyptian and Mesopotamian ruins are full of furry pics, it's literally the oldest fandom in the world.
Furries aren't as recent as people tend to think either I might point out, the subculture has existed in some form since like the 80s to my understanding, it's just more popular and visible these days.
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