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.
I’m relaying an experience I’ve personally had with furries inviting children to take pictures with them while we were at the zoo.
I live in an area where it’s pretty common for furry events or meetups to happen at a regular occurrence.
It’s not that I’m surprised furries congregate at zoos. It’s that the sexualization of animals in the community feels weird to me to see them observing caged animals.
I grew up with deviantart around and the furry community has always presented as incredibly sexualized in my experience. It’s hard to separate that out these days.
There’s a pretty big divide between sexualizing animals and sexually explicit art of anthropomorphic characters. I think you’ll find that furries, as a whole, tend to be incredibly averse to the sexualization of actual animals, and to people who do so.
It’s hard to see that divide outside of furry circles is more my point.
I don’t say anything or try to ruin their fun if I see furries out and about, just to be clear. It raises some questions internally because of how the furry world has been presented to me.
How has it been presented to you, and by whom? If you’re getting your information from sources intending to be detractors, then, sure, I can understand your viewpoint. If you’re getting your information from furries who actually participate in the community, I don’t understand your perspective at all.
Well, just scrolling through social spaces on the internet shows many sexualized images of anthropomorphized animals. That’s the thing most people are going to see. It’s not like I’ve been reading and buying in to anti-furry propaganda, the sexualization is something anyone who spends too much time online is going to run into constantly.