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Furries are cool
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"I do not like a certain subset of humanity because they are different than me and I feel safe punching down at them"
Woah, you put a lot of words in my mouth. I don't mind them at all. I just wouldn't say they're cool. Thinking about it now, it's weird to think anyone is cool because of their sexual preference.
Why is there this weird prudish subset of the internet that seeks to over-sexualize benign activities that make them uncomfortable.
Furries are, at most, a place where a minority find it easier to express sexuality (such as homo-, bi-, pan-sexuality amongst others). This isn't because it's inherently sexual, but because they feel comfort and lack of judgment from their peers.
It's a shame that you find that kind of acceptance to be uncomfortable
What the fuck are you talking about? I never said anything is the sort.
Nah you were just ostensibly judgy about a specific subset of cosplay enthusiasts. They put a lot of effort into the show. It’s a huge trigger.
If, for instance, you were a large-hat enthusiast, you might be put out if someone decided you fucked kids because of your sombrero.
Except, I didn't do that.
Being a furry isn't inherently sexual
Its not punching down to be uncomfortable with people sexualising animals
It is when you generalize an entire subculture based on an episode of CSI from 1999
Dude, are werewolves the same as wolf-wolves to you? Because they are really not the same at all. It's like saying a lemur is the same as a human. It is cognitively and anatomically very different.
Sure, but I've also seen plenty of content that is along the lines of "dog level of intelligence in caked up human body" (see: that slimy fucking "dog girlfriend" comic the one person posts to the comics community about once a week) and content that is "lets leave the anthro aspects on the shelf today" (Let me check my tag blacklist... pretty sure it's tagged as "feral" on boorus).
Maybe this guy is talking about anthro stuff, or even catgirls, and is just pearl clutching. But there are also some quite concerning subgroups under the furry umbrella (much like many large groups). Just saying.
Yea I obviously agree that when the 'feral' category is sexualized, it is unimaginably gross, at that point you are really just making gross zoophilic art and invading furry spaces with it. But normal 'feral' art is just about cuteness and the intellegence is often scaled to be on-par with humans (think like Fox and The Hound). Do you beleive that version of 'feral' is bad?
"I don't think this particular hobby is cool" is not "I do not like a certain subset of humanity" and you are a clown for attempting such. If you've ever wondered why someone dislikes you, it is probably because of this behavior.
Unfortunately, that's not what they meant.
Turns out it was the bog standard "furries are sexual deviants" stereotype that's existed since the early days of the internet.🥱
Still nothing about being a deviant, go cry about strawmen tho
Except it's not a straw man though, because the furry=fetish stereotype has a verifiable source of when it entered the mainstream culture from a pair of TV episodes in the 90s and 00s - the famous CSI episode and one from a similar show that I can't remember the name of. These two painted furry conventions as basically sex dens filled with orgies of people in animal costumes, and that was the first time most people outside of niche parts of the internet had even heard of furries.
Before furries, it happened to Trekkies. People said that people only liked Star Trek for the sexy green alien women. But it isn't often that a fandom is treated like this and for this long. Anime had a similar but not quite the same stereotype, but that's largely relegated to the really bad parts of the anime fandom.
And it's very similar to the pathologization of trans women as men who get off on the idea of seeing themselves as women.
I'm not saying that they think that furries are sexual predators or something. I'm saying that the idea of furries being a fetish is a stereotype born from a malicious place that painted an entire minority as a bunch of sexual deviants for viewership on TV, and that they're perpetuating that stereotype.