Pagans, Wiccans, etc., Can We Bury the Fluff Bunny Term Before 2008 Arrives?

Question

There seems to be a consensus floating around cyberspace that perhaps we should bury the Fluff Bunny (FP) term and let it R.I.P. Do you are agree? Do you have a saying to place on the tombstone? When was it born and when did it die? Do we bury the already rotted carcass of the FP or kick it around some more? Yes, or No and why?

Answer 1

I would like to completely seperate fluffy bunnies from paganism and Wicca. Some people think that it's the term given to new seekers, but that's not the case. A 16 year old can come to Wicca for the right reasons and give it respect, and no one should ever call her fluffy. On the other hand, a 48 year old woman can discover the Craft during a mid-life crisis, and try to incorporate the best parts of each pagan branch and try to make it work for her. I would find this "fluffy" or fake. You have to have LIGHT and DARK. Polarity is a major focus of Wicca and in life, generally.
I also think people who call themselves Wiccan after reading a few books and writing to people on the net are fluffy/fake, and give our community a bad name. Some of the biggest problems with paganism today comes from inside our community due to these people. They are ill-informed and uneducated and run around screaming to the world, "Hey, I'm cool and special because I'm a elecetic in the whisper wood coven, a level 3 , I'm a high priestess, so ask me anything!"
And then the answers that spew out....
I also agree that the term must have started around 2000, because I became involved in 1996, and I didn't hear the term before that.
I think we should bury the term fluffy bunny, because it is misleading. These people are harmful to themselves and others. They should be pointed out as the FAKERS that they are. They are NOT pagan and shouldn't be allowed to call themselves that, even with fluffy stuck in front of it.
If certain authors help this to continue, don't buy their books, or reccomend them to people who come to you for advice. I don't know....I live in a town of 15,000 people with no real pagan community, unless you count the "goth" teens who work at Wal-mart. I tried to talk to them without telling them I was Wiccan, and I found out fast that the kids weren't goth or Wiccan. Just rejects...

Answer 2

I agree with burying Fluffy Bunnies! When the teeny pretenders stop pretending then I will stop using the term. Why does it offend you? Have you been called a Fluffy Bunny? Yes, or No and why?
If there is a consensus floating around cyberspace suggesting we no longer use that term it must be coming from the FB's themselves who are maybe offended because nobody believes they are witches! They give real practitioners of the craft a bad name! We have enough BS to deal with!
BB
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Answer 3

If we get rid of the term Fluff Bunny, what would you suggest we use to replace it? Or are you really suggesting that we never criticize anyone or call a spade a spade? Sorry, but I personally find that irresponsible. When people are damaging the community, turning spirituality into a fad, spreading blatantly bad information, people should stand up against them. Turning a blind eye does not fix the problem.

Answer 4

The term "Fluffy Bunny" does not refer to those who are ignorant and seeking. These people are sometimes called "seekers" or "newbies". "Fluffy Bunny" refers to those who are purposely ignorant and not seeking reliable information. The term will die out on its own when there aren't people who fit that description. Although I wish that there wouldn't be people who fit that description after the beginning of 2008, I am a realist and know that there will be.

Do you have a better term that you would want people to use to refer to those who knowingly choose to be ignorant, spread misinformation, and misrepresent various pagan religions? I can think of a few but they are much more derogatory than "Fluffy Bunny".

Answer 5

Can we instead bury the fluff bunnies, please?!

The term, I think, perfectly describes 14-year-olds who heard of Wicca on TV, read one book by Silver Ravenwolf and now tell everyone how they are witches, but not evil because Wicca says "harm non".
Which couldn't be further from the truth. People like that give all pagans a bad name. I vote for the term to stay. If we are to bury anything, let it be misinformation and ignorance, please.
People shall do their homework before calling themselves something they aren't.
Wicca is a serious, beautiful path and it really doesn't deserve to be valued down by hordes of teenagers who want to be witches because it's "cool" or because they read too much Harry Potter.

Answer 6

Til now, I have never heard the term "Fluffy Bunny". Sounds rather cute and cuddly.
But if fluffy bunnies are going to be around, then they might be giving the rest of us a bad name, but then christians have been doing that for hundreds of years....a few hundred more should make no difference. All fluffy bunnies, christians included, must be educated. So let us soldier on and let us be as a teacher is to an ignorant child....enlighten all of them.

Answer 7

I don't think it's time to bury the FB just yet, mainly because there are an awful lot of them out there giving the rest of us a very bad name. If "Fluff Bunny" continues floating around, maybe the people it's used toward might go, "Why are you calling me that? What does that even mean?" google it, read up on what it means and think about why they're being called a FB.

Blessed Yule!
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Answer 8

I heard and used it in.... hmmm, 2000 starting, I believe. As for burying it - when I stop running into "love and harmony" types that claim Loki is merely misunderstood and "just needs a hug" - I'm not kidding. I've had someone say that to me, complete with glitter in their hair and light-up wand at an Asatru gathering.

As a general term against groups of people, like Wiccans, I don't use it and don't encourage the use of it. Losing it wouldn't hurt in the general community.

Answer 9

every person who includes a faith from everywhere else, is going with the aid of a getting to understand curve. i think of that between the flaws you're seeing is the reaction against the lessening of Pagans and Paganism by using people who combat stressful against something being required of them - something. At one time, no longer all that some time past, Pagan have been one in each and every of the extra knowledgeable communities around. Media and merchandising have given human beings this fake photograph of who and what we are and the finished "youngster Witch" syndrome has worn skinny. human beings merchandise to their path getting became right into a rubbish heap. that's organic sufficient. i think of that for the duration of factor of actuality - no count what variety of Pagans we ensue to be, for persons who incredibly have faith, that's a faith. every person is and could be predicted to recognize why they at the instant are no longer one faith and have choosen yet another. that's no longer some unreasonable call for that all of us recognize the two who we are and why. Paganism is probable very much smaller than we are brought about have faith. a fabulous variety of folk who call themselves Pagan are not - and don't choose to be. they choose to be Hobbits, and whilst they locate that this would possibly not ensue, there's a ton of screaming - and that they go away. that's good. Paganism has develop into this dumping floor for the emotionally broken and spiritually handicapped. we aren't a self-help team, we are part of a faith; and it incredibly is approximately only one ingredient truly: You and your dating to Divinity. Pagans can and could desire to have an expertise of the approach of existence of their path. For one ingredient, it is going to help you tell the countless between the actual deal and the crap. i do no longer think of it truly concerns which path you elect, yet expertise its roots and understanding the place you slot, is the way forward. you do no longer ought to develop right into a history professor (despite in case you may like that - i've got study your posts in the previous, and you're no fool). Pagans ought to develop expertise - no longer get a PhD.

Answer 10

We need to get rid of the Fluff Bunnies instead. People who embrace Wicca and Paganism because they think they will be cool and just like in "The Craft," are seriously annoying.