Megathread Non-binary genders / Enbies - When Male and Female Aren't Special Enough

[Dead Eye]

Well, she didn’t own a long Furby (to my knowledge). However, I decided to look up long Furby out of curiosity and found this atrocity. /off-topic

 

[Emo Crow]

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This is how I win.

Instant win button

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My sleep paralysis demon

 

[Parthenos]

Guys, I know that they're easy to confuse but this is the enby thread, not the furby thread. inb4 someone posts an enby furby

 

[Frankenweenie]

Guys, I know that they're easy to confuse but this is the enby thread, not the furby thread. inb4 someone posts an enby furby

Ask and you shall receive

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

Ask and you shall receive

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>Furbys are similar to angels.
so are angels secretly NB icons too?

 

[NoReturn]

>Furbys are similar to angels.
so are angels secretly NB icons too?

MY PRONOUNS ARE THEY/THEM!

 

[Meowthkip]

I'm okay with this thread being about furbies, honestly.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

inb4 someone posts an enby furby

Ask and you shall receive

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Some people theorize that you can answer this question by the pitch of their voice

I am glad to know that the world's top minds in furbology are hard at work cracking this one.

 

[Emo Crow]

Ask and you shall receive

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Do you suppose Furbys are another trademark of autists, alongside gendershit? Because it seems like a lot of genderspecials and general autists are drawn to them.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Do you suppose Furbys are another trademark of autists, alongside gendershit? Because it seems like a lot of genderspecials and general autists are drawn to them.

i think is more like kids stuff in general. Its always something preteens would latch onto, Sonic or furbys were both cool and non threatening enough to catch their interest when they were super hyped but autists are not very good dealing change or letting go of something once they become emotionally attached to it, they might even grow more obsessed with it as they grow older and become adults, rather than the other way around.

Sailor moon is another big one, probably the biggest among the genderspecials.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

i think is more like kids stuff in general. Its always something preteens would latch onto, Sonic or furbys were both cool and non threatening enough to catch their interest when they were super hyped but autists are not very good dealing change or letting go of something once they become emotionally attached to it, they might even grow more obsessed with it as they grow older and become adults, rather than the other way around.

Sailor moon is another big one, probably the biggest among the genderspecials.

I blame Uranus and Neptune, and all the femboys on that series for that.

 

[Frankenweenie]

Do you suppose Furbys are another trademark of autists, alongside gendershit? Because it seems like a lot of genderspecials and general autists are drawn to them.

Absolutely. Going into the furby tag on tumblr yields some fantastically bizarre results. In relation to genderspecial content, it didn't take much digging to find something like this, and theres plenty more if you look a bit closer:



Image was found here on an enby furby blog. It seems to be indefinitely on hiatus, but a weird rabbit hole to go down nonetheless. Seeing this shit makes me inclined to believe that tumblr furby content could sustain its own thread.

i think is more like kids stuff in general. Its always something preteens would latch onto, Sonic or furbys were both cool and non threatening enough to catch their interest when they were super hyped but autists are not very good dealing change or letting go of something once they become emotionally attached to it, they might even grow more obsessed with it as they grow older and become adults, rather than the other way around.

Sailor moon is another big one, probably the biggest among the genderspecials.

You are on the right track with this, and you can substitute furbies with practically any nostalgic concept out there. It's why you see so many genderspecials obsessed with cartoons and anime, and why so many of them overlap with otherkin communities. They retreat into fictional fantasy worlds to escape from whatever the fuck is going on in their lives. Poor coping mechanisms are a staple.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I blame Uranus and Neptune, and all the femboys on that series for that.

but they really took it and ran with it. Sailor moon was very binary still, it was a very girly show about girly girls who like girly things, is really crazy how fandoms filters and twists stuff, input sailor moon in the 90s and comes out steven universe on the other end in the 010s.

Going into the furby tag on tumblr yields some fantastically bizarre results.

Furbys and Sanrio were also very popular with the menhera aesthetic and pastel goth, i remember seeing a lot of those white and pink glitery furbys on their pictures. A lot of the creepy mods are just part of that concept of "im a cute baby but evil jijiji uwu"

You are on the right track with this, and you can substitute furbies with practically any nostalgic concept out there. It's why you see so many genderspecials obsessed with cartoons and anime, and why so many of them overlap with otherkin communities. They retreat into fictional fantasy worlds to escape from whatever the fuck is going on in their lives. Poor coping mechanisms are a staple.

It could be normal enough, but autists really push things to eleven to the point they are not. Like, some office dude with a Sonic action figure on his desk should not be too weird, could just be a memento or a gift from someone, but you inmediatly have flashbacks of Chris Chan and curse images on DA you should not have clicked on.

 

[Emo Crow]

I don't mean to drag out the Furby thing but

 

[Digital Thunder]

i think is more like kids stuff in general. Its always something preteens would latch onto, Sonic or furbys were both cool and non threatening enough to catch their interest when they were super hyped but autists are not very good dealing change or letting go of something once they become emotionally attached to it, they might even grow more obsessed with it as they grow older and become adults, rather than the other way around.

Sailor moon is another big one, probably the biggest among the genderspecials.

Agreed, though I think an even better direct parallel to Furbies are the worms-on-strings (that go by a million different brand names apparently), since the worms are also physical toys with a very basic gimmick that have gotten a recent revival specifically among these types. The only real difference between their comeback and Furbies is that I have yet to see a custom-made monster worm. I'm sure someone's tried to make one.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Agreed, though I think an even better direct parallel to Furbies are the worms-on-strings (that go by a million different brand names apparently), since the worms are also physical toys with a very basic gimmick that have gotten a recent revival specifically among these types. The only real difference between their comeback and Furbies is that I have yet to see a custom-made monster worm. I'm sure someone's tried to make one.

I had never seen those in my life but sure enough, among the first results in google images a bunch of gay tumblr stuff.

Spoiler: Autism

 

[Digital Thunder]

I had never seen those in my life but sure enough, among the first results in google images a bunch of gay tumblr stuff.

There's even gay tumblr diaspora OCs of string-worms, too!

To get back on topic though, it's been said above but it really does make sense that it's a manifestation of nostalgia and maybe not wanting to grow up to an extent, just with the extra flair of it being overkill and identity politics being forced in in the most annoying ways possible. Isn't it weirdly infantilizing to be spreading sooper srs messages with children's toys anyways?

 

[Parthenos]

There's even gay tumblr diaspora OCs of string-worms, too!

To get back on topic though, it's been said above but it really does make sense that it's a manifestation of nostalgia and maybe not wanting to grow up to an extent, just with the extra flair of it being overkill and identity politics being forced in in the most annoying ways possible. Isn't it weirdly infantilizing to be spreading sooper srs messages with children's toys anyways?

Well, I see it as some combination of the following:

A) their insecure sense of self means that they project what little they believe in on everything, including things they liked as children
B) so that they can reconcile their slavish consumerism by *~subverting~* toys even if they identify as politically left-wing
C) they hope to use this type of messaging to recruit younger people to "the cause" even though it's essentially the modern version of "Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue". (This last one was why they were wetting themselves over Steven Universe, by the way.)

 

[exhausted]

If you guys want to talk about furbies, we have a thread for the community already

 

[Billiam Cipher]