My first thought was gaming as well. The hobby isn't problematic, but god damn are so many gamers themselves the problem.
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Toys collecting. Especially dolls and or stuffed animals.
When a guy collects Pokémon figures, that's fine and cool.
However when I like to buy myself Bratz dolls and Hello Kitty stuff and cute plushies, I'm told I am childish and I need to grow up🙄😒
Mushroom hunting; most people think the only mushrooms you find in the woods are magic or poisonous
One of my mates goes with his wife and kids to forage for morel mushrooms, it's a big family activity and they love it.
I haven't tried Morel mushrooms though, would like to give them a go with what he has said about them (we are separated by ocean or I would ask him, at the right time of year).
"Most people" where? Online or in your social circle? I have never heard this from anyone, not even online.
I live in the stereotypical part of the US which is all soulless suburbs and people taking kids to school in SUVs. Most people don't think about food unless they buy it at the grocery and I am a bit of a black sheep where I live for even having a garden
You're saying that if you told the average person you're going mushroom hunting, they wouldnt give you the side eye of implication? I'd definitely tend to agree with the original comment.
Yes pretty much, it's a quite common fall activity here. Mostly families or seniors doing it, and I've never directly talked to someone about it, but I don't think anyone would honestly think about poisoness or magic mushrooms (maybe jokingly ask about it).
You're saying that if you told the average person you're going mushroom hunting, they wouldnt give you the side eye of implication? I'd definitely tend to agree with the original comment.
Nerd stuff.
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Big time agree
Csa prevention and looking to the researches related to risk groups, listening to those we are seeing as risk groups as a society. I know this is more higher risk than video games, but methinks it has also can be more positive stuff as well if you do not romanticize certain things.
evidently fucking dead deer.
you hunt a deer all morning and nobody bats an eye.
you fuck a deer one time....
you hunt a deer all morning and nobody bats an eye.
how do you know when someone is cruel and violent don't worry they never ever ever stop telling you
How do you know someone is a jerkface, dont worry they never stop telling you.
Depends on the circles you live near. I've never heard any problems in my area, but some places will take something as harmless as a furry con may be and try to convince one of the organizations partnering with the con to pull out, despite getting hefty donations.
Cannot remember the exact con or organization, but happened at least once in the past couple years in, I wanna say, either Ireland or Britain. Relatively innocent enough 18+ only convention had people trying to pull the "won't somebody please think of the children" card, IIRC, and had concerns about the dead horse stereotype of furries being zoophiles ( untrue* and zoophiles are outed from the fandom real quick if you're revealed to actually be one ).
*as with all fandoms, there are degenerates that go undetected
Legal porn
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