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[bladespark]

Five Geek Social Fallacies. You could name this "Five Furry Social Fallacies" and it would work just fine too.

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[lin-chan.livejournal.com]

As little more than a geek groupie, I've seen some of this play out, and never really decided to categorize the reasoning behind it. As such, I almost couldn't keep up while reading. Maybe this guy was really onto something in his area, but I think there's far too much generalization going on to be referenced much.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

It's not just geeks. It tends to be any social group that perceives itself as separate from other groups. Particularly when it has a lot of people in it with low social skills.

And I've run into it a LOT, especially the first one. It's a huge part of the reason why furry has such troubles as a fandom, nobody is excluded, even people who really should be. When I threw a guy who was outright stalking one of the other members out of the Utah furmeet group, I shocked a lot of them. Even though he was /stalking/ somebody, they didn't want him to be excluded from the group!

[silveradept]

You could call it "Five Social Fallacies" and just note that it tends to apply in certain groups. But yeah, geeks and their affiliates do tend to have more pronounced cases of these fallacies. I'm pretty sure I've got at least one, if not more, of those.