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The whole furry thing is creepy (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Abyssian@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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The whole furry thing is creepy as hell. It's weird. Wanting to have sex with anthropomorphized animals is not a thing that should be normalized.

And it's even creepier when they add things like "kitten" or showing anthropomorphized animal kids.

And thank you to Unruffled [they/them] / Flatworm7591 @lemmy.dbzer0.com for this sane and reasonable response.

And thanks to recursive_recursion who seems to be an alt of Flatworm for continuing that sane and reasonable response. Note that in over 1,400 comments here I've never once said a single word against trans people. Not once.

It really bothers me when people lie about racism. So many people really do experience it so much in life, and lying using false racism accusations as a sword and shield to make other people look bad and make themselves look like the victim is demeaning to every real instance people suffer.

Hopefully one day this person realizes that lying about transphobia for the same reasons does the same thing.

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[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Post was reported for

troll/not unpopular

Seems like the picture was shitposting, but that's allowed. The post? I don't think it's trolling.

Leaving up.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (16 children)

I think they're sincere, but it's sorta starting to feel like they're using this as a soapbox from which to preach intolerance. While not quite as charged as the topic of trans people, a lot of the rhetoric they're using in here is only one swapped noun away from being a Nigel Farage tweet.

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[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 40 points 5 days ago (13 children)

Furry ideas aside, this shirt is just a shitpost. I doubt anyone wears this seriously, and I doubt it was made to be taken seriously.

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[–] wizblizz@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Yawn, this bullshit is as old as the internet. Leave the furries alone.

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[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (14 children)

why can't you just let people be what they want to be? they are not hurting anyone.

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[–] freeman@feddit.org 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thought this was !shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world

[–] Forester@pawb.social 8 points 5 days ago

I posted it there hence this post

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 15 points 5 days ago (11 children)

At least they aren't fantasizing about having sex with human. 🤢

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[–] wraekscadu@vargar.org 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Being a furry has nothing to do with sex. It's kinda like cosplaying a character that you make up (it's called a fursona). Why? Cuz fursonas are cute. Animated stuff and cartoon like stuff is fun! Furry art, fursuits and stuff is art. Art is fun to participate in and/or appreciate.
Humans are sexual creatures. So many other hobbies are sexualised. Football porn exists, where sexy athletic folk have sex. Is football purely a sexual sport then? No. Absolutely the same applies for furries.
If an act isn't harming anyone, it's none of your business. Some people like eating shit and drinking piss. You might not enjoy it. Being worried about what others are doing in their bedroom (unless it's non consensual and hurting yourself/society) is absolutely none of your business.

The t-shirt here is obviously a shitpost. Also, don't mix pedo shit with furries. Straight pedos exist. Is me saying, "ooooh the idea of being a heterosexual is so creepy with people calling each other daddy/mommy. Especially the kind of porn where they fuck kids" appropriate? No, anyone who says something like this is a dumbass.

Hitler loved animals. Are all animal lovers Nazis now? Similarly, a subset of furries are pedos who produce pedo art. Are all furries pedos now? Come on...

The furry community is a place where generally autistic folk, who are also, generally queer come together to be cringey and fun. It's a safe space, completely separate from the sadness in the world, the politics and such. It's a place where well, you dress up as a fkin cute animal and do cute, "cringey" stuff without anyone judging you.

When you make weird ass connections like these (like the pedo connection) without actually attempting to understand and learn, you just become someone who hurts other people who just want to exist and do their own thing.

This either makes you:

an idiot
someone who deliberately wants to hurt other people for literally no reason.

So not cool. Be better.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 9 points 5 days ago

Just ordered this shirt

[–] anewfox@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago

i give OP a year until the furry hater -> furry pipeline kicks in.

[–] forbiddencherry@lemmy.today 10 points 5 days ago (25 children)

Disgust reactions are rarely helpful. Reasoning needs to be involved in decisions, not just knee-jerk emotions.

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[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (42 children)

I don’t mind what consenting adults do in their bedroom.

I very much mind when there’s a furries-day-out and they’re encouraging children to hug them for pictures and the like. I don’t know who is behind the mask and that sets off alarm bells for me.

It was odd to go to the zoo and see dozens of furries enjoying watching the caged animals.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 17 points 5 days ago (43 children)

Hi - I've got, not a fursuit per se, but a full-body costume that I wear to basically any event where it's appropriate to do so. It is very common for parents to come and ask to take their kids' pictures with me, not the other way around. I have in fact never approached anyone looking to have a picture taken, but kids still come interact with me - with their parents present - all the time.

You can certainly make the argument that that's irresponsible on the parents' behalf because, asd you note, nobody can tell who I am, but blaming furries for that is just wild.

Re: the zoo, furries tend, generally speaking, to be very pro-animal rights. Furries as a whole donate a lot of money to animal-benefiting charities and whatnot. (Most furry conventions include fundraising for some charity or another.) Furries also just tend to enjoy animals in general, and zoos tend to be the easiest place to go to see non-domesticated animals, so I'm not sure why you'd be surprised to see furries there.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The best part is that it's non of your business and very easy to avoid!

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