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God I really wish carrying stuffed animals around with you was socially acceptable

I don’t mean to take over a post, but I actually did a project on this for my sociology of deviance class in college!

I carried a large stuffed rabbit whenever I went in public for about a week to observe the reaction of others. The point of the project was to do something harmless yet unusual to see if the action would be considered deviant, in which case someone had to try to correct or shame the behavior.

Long story short, nobody tried to correct my behavior. I was asked about it casually, had a few lingering stares thrown my way and when I was with my boyfriend, shop employees would direct questions to him instead of me. However, nobody refused to assist me when I was alone in a store, nobody said anything about the rabbit besides “oh, thats a cute bunny!” and I attended college classes without even a teacher questioning it.

In conclusion, it is socially acceptable to carry a stuffed animal, its just not a societal norm. ^^

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OK I’ve seen this post a few times and here’s the deal

if you want to do something super super weird you only really need to evaluate one criterion before you decide whether to do it

does it infringe on people’s understanding of the social order?

if yes, they’ll censure you. if no, they won’t.

so if you’re a feminine/young person and you carry a stuffed animal, that doesn’t infringe on people’s concept of the social hierarchy in any way. if you have the misfortune to encounter someone with authoritarian tendencies who thinks #1 they outrank you and #2 your stuffed animal is in some way disruptive to the environment– “classroom order” or something, then you might get bothered, usually under the excuse of “discipline”. In other words, they’ll feel justified in “putting you in your place”.

If you’re a masculine/old person and you carry a stuffed animal, that is more likely to upset people’s notions of the social hierarchy. Men/adults don’t play with toys. They might find it an amusing inversion and so you’ll escape censure. This is likely. But if you do something to indicate that you’re sincere about this, or that it’s not a joke, or you pretending to a lower status than you have, that sort of thing, then they may censure you. Again, it will be in the name of “discipline”. You’re ‘distracting’, or something along those lines. But really it will be for violating their notion of the social hierarchy.

It really has nothing to do with stuffed animals. It has little to do with you.

It’s always about the hierarchy.

This is why things like– women being the most aggressive upholders of patriarchal gender role bullshit being perpetrated to oppress other women, and such. They’re invested in the hierarchy. Everyone is, unless they consciously divest from it.

So, in short, yes, if you want to do something that comes across as “cute” you’ll probably get away with it. if you do something that comes across as “subversive” you’ll only get away with it if you seem to be punching downward. Like, a boy with a stuffie, if he seems to be making fun of girls with stuffies. That sort of thing. (Your picture was not posted)