Is this what a closeted furry looks like?
I asked my roomie who is into cutesy furry stuff. He grimaced and said that some thoughts are best left unshared.
Neither of us are very fond of the idea of human tails.
His fursona is some sort of alien avian raptor thing made out of nitrogen or something.
I don’t have one as I’m only in it for the porn.
If humans had tails would women get told they should wag their tails more?
Or both at the same time. Why bother with consistency when there’s women to shame?
If humans had tails we’d have clothes to hide and possibly restrain them and it would somehow be rude to move it. It just fits the whole self loathing much of the western world had going on for the last few centuries.
Nah man, there would be some form of cultural disdain for types of tails. It would become another form of racism. Got your culture, looks, skin color, etc and at the end “tail type”. There would be whole sociocultural wars started over tail length. People would go around hiding their tails claiming fashion forward practices to fit in.
Politicians would claim bus seats with holes aren’t safe in order to put down the people who primarily use them. Activist groups would come out saying that pants with openings for tail comfort goes against the teachings of the Great Tailed God. Eventually there would be a change towards equality, though never justice. Beneath the false peace people would still be whispering and somehow those few with the “nicest” tails, born into fabulously-tailed families, would always have more privilege and often not understand how having a different tail can be an automatic disadvantage.
There is probably a good reason we don’t - it evolved out because we seem to be benefited by hiding our emotions
Though the causal link might be the other way around - if we were better with dealing with expressed emotion we could have kept the tail
Could probably look at the taxonomy to see when we lost it and what happened to our tailed brethren
Or it has little to do with emotions at all and more to do with physical changes based on environment.
I like that the last part is not a question
The longing for a tail comes from the fact we used to have them and we wish to have them back.
