What is A Fluffy Bunny REALLY?
What a picturesque image … A cute little bunny, all white fur and fluffy as can be …
“Fluffy Bunny” is a word of many definitions, these are the 2 most common:
Some say a Fluffy Bunny is a cute, young newbie, prancing about the local Pagan events bathed in white light. Someone naïve and overly positive, who thinks the whole world is filled with cute lil’ bunnies and no wolves; a Pagan who bursts with glee at being Pagan and irritates the rest of us with it.
Others say a Fluffy Bunny is the stubborn Pagan who thinks he has all the answers and everyone else is stupid; he kind of guy who never backs down from an argument and is always right.
Fluffy Bunny can mean anything now though. Especially online in forums and chat rooms, this silly phrase has become the catch-all favourite insult of Pagans.
Let’s all fess up; a “fluffy bunny” is whoever pissed you off last.
Modern Paganism must be doing pretty well; it’s gotten big enough that we are developing not only our own slang, but our own slang insults.
Really folks, why couldn’t we just call someone an “ass” instead? “Fluffy Bunny” sounds so stupid, and do we really need to be using it at all? There are plenty of nasty words we can sling at each other when we disagree on some silly point. Words with punch and pizzazz and only two syllables, like “bastard” or “stupid”, MUCH better than referring to a hoppy little rabbit.
I mean think about it, why on Earth are we using such a stupid phrase, are not most of us poets? Surely the Bards in our community could come up with something better.
Come on people, act your age and just call the next person you get into a dispute with a “jerk-face” instead. It’s more honest and less slandering eh.
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I think FLUFFY BUNNY is BIG MOJO!
Ok, did you read my post that I started but never finished? I have always disliked the term “fluffy bunny”. If you ask someone why they call someone that each person has a different definition. And for someone that is fairly new to their path as I was over a year ago, it is hard to ask questions or even put in your two cents when people are calling newbies “fluffy bunnies”.
Nope I haven’t read your post (I’ve been busy moving etc) I found this browsing thorugh old files on my computer actually! I will head over and read your blog post though
I’m going to have to agree with you… I feel like a n00b just TYPING “Fluffy Bunny.”
It does, however, imply more than “ass,” in that it is a term that is used almost exclusively by pagans so in essence a fluffy bunny is just a pagan ass, lol!
I wish we could go back and find the first use of this term, give that person hell and change it all… but alas, fluffy bunny it is… and I still know what a person is implying when they say it!
I’m Samantha, by the way, and I’m loving your blog!
I’m inclined to agree – “fluffy” or isn’t particularly articulate. Rather than calling anyone anything, it might just make more sense to try and qualify our actual problem with the person in question… & once we’ve explored that a little, we can either realize we’ve been asses ourselves for jibbing on others – or if they derserve it we can get on with more creative/specific defamation (kidding, kidding).