The whole furry thing is creepy

6 days ago by Trump Rapes Kids to c/unpopularopinion

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.

JonsJava 50 points 6 days ago

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.

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Warl0k3 25 points 6 days ago

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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Abyssian -2 points 6 days ago

How am I preaching intolerance? If you swap one noun for any thing that any person dislikes or finds creepy with a noun for the ones Hitler or Farage were known to complain the loudest about then of course it becomes something awful.

It seems weird and creepy. That's my opinion. I'm not saying they should be set on fire. I don't care what any consenting adults do in their own bedrooms. But it's become so normalized online, and typically in clearly sexual manners, that it's starting to feel more like dragging the non-consenting general public into a fetish act.

I don't understand how someone would term that as intolerance. The world is full of strange fetishes, and they're typically kept in that private part of people's lives. There are loads of fetishes consenting adults enjoy with one another that most of the people in here down voting would complain about seeing images of posted regularly (with all genitals covered).

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Warl0k3 28 points 6 days ago

I mean that:

It seems weird and creepy. That’s my opinion. I’m not saying they should be set on fire. I don’t care what any consenting adults do in their own bedrooms. But it’s become so normalized online, and typically in clearly sexual manners, that it’s starting to feel more like dragging the non-consenting general public into a fetish act.

This shit is exactly what people say about queer people online. It's almost 1:1 the identical rhetoric. "I'm not saying they should be killed, I don't care what they do in their own homes, but" Please, look back on that and consider if you're seriously okay with saying this about someone else. Your arguments here are just plain bigotry, but because you feel morally justified in that they're doing weird sex pervert stuff you're making the internal distinction that this is okay behavior, even though a quick skim of your post history makes you look like someone who would be right at the front of the pushback if some chud came in to say this about any other "But I think they're weird, and I'm entitled to my own opinion!!" marginalized group.

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snooggums 2 points 5 days ago

So you don't think people are entitled to have an opinion that something is weird to them personally.

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Abyssian -9 points 6 days ago

If the topic were people sexually attracted to children making artwork that depicts children characters in sexual way and wearing similar costumes in public, would you be telling someone the same thing?

Yes, we know that having sex with children is very wrong. But some people are sexually attracted to them and can't control that. Likewise having sex with animals is something we know is very wrong. Saying a drawn character isn't really an animal and they'd never do that to a real animal seems the exact same situation as those who say drawn sexualized children aren't real kids and they'd never do that to a real child.

How about if it's people masturbating in public? I don't care if they do that in the privacy of their own homes, but it's not alright to do in the middle of the street. Similarly, wearing gimp costumes, ball gags, and strap-ons while walking down a public street isn't great either even if those people aren't exposing their genitalia in public.

Yeah, saying that you don't think the actions of some people are things they should be doing in public can be twisted if you imaging they're saying they don't think people should be being black or gay in public. But that isn't what's being said, it's you trying to be tolerant and accepting to the point where anyone saying doing something in public seems bad leads to you imagining them in a KKK hood holding a torch.

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Abyssian 6 points 6 days ago

Thanks. I love the irony in people are reporting a post in the "Unpopular Opinion" community for being unpopular.

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JonsJava 23 points 6 days ago

they actually reported it for being not unpopular

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Abyssian -14 points 6 days ago

That's actually even better. "I dislike this opinion so much that I will complain that it's popular so it gets deleted."

If mental gymnastics burned as many calories as the real thing we'd never need to get off the internet and go get some exercise. :)

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abbotsbury 26 points 6 days ago

It's not mental gymnastics and it's not about disliking the opinion, it's legitimately not unpopular. Dunking on furries has been popular on the internet since at least 2005, it is extremely mainstream and probably the gateway for young people to the more toxic parts of the internet since blatant bigotry is more likely to be removed.

You have a very small mind if you think all disagreement is "I don't like it"

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Hideakikarate 40 points 6 days ago

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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Abyssian -20 points 6 days ago

I get that the shirt was posted here as a shit post. But you know there are people in the world, and likely here on the internet, who would wear shirts like this in public, and even more who only don't because they know they'd be made fun of.

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Aberration13 14 points 6 days ago

If aliens came to earth would you object to people hooking up with them?

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Abyssian -8 points 6 days ago

Fetishization of others due to their racial characteristics is generally considered a bad thing. Due to the topic jumping to aliens as a defense seems like that more than anything else.

Wolves and Zebas and the like are already on Earth, and it's already considered very wrong to have sex with them pretty much everywhere.

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Aberration13 21 points 6 days ago

Everybody has preferences, it's not immoral to have different preferences than someone else, fetishizing is harmful when it causes you to stop treating someone like a person and instead treat them as an object.

Because A: there are no actual furries irl to be harmed and B: most of the fandom is actually very invested in who their characters are as people

I think that argument falls flat, I brought up aliens to counter the argument you made next about animals already existing. Because no animals on earth can talk. Furries might have animal characteristics but conceptually they are closer to aliens than animals unless you only care about visuals.

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Bismyth 11 points 6 days ago

I'm not a furry but I'd 100% wear this shirt in public. it's hilarious.

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AwesomeLowlander 9 points 5 days ago

Not a furry. Would wear the shirt.

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wraekscadu 6 points 5 days ago

Why do you care what other people want to do? Do you literally have nothing better to do in life?

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Abyssian -2 points 5 days ago

People form opinions all the time about all sorts of things other people do. If you walk out of the front door and there's someone in nothing but a cowboy hat, gas mask, diaper, and high heels you are probably going to think something like "that's really weird" or "that's creepy" or maybe "I shouldn't have eaten all of those mushrooms."

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nialv7 22 points 6 days ago

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

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Abyssian -9 points 6 days ago

I didn't say they're not allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Broadcasting sexual fetishes is weird, though. It's like loading the default Bluesky feed and seeing someone post about how they're doing to go stick a cucumber in their bum. Some things are public things it's fine to discuss anywhere. Some things are private things and generally shouldn't be blasted out publicly on forums where the age to sign up is 13.

I didn't say they're not allowed to anything. I'm not unquestioned ruler of the world. I don't have the power to let or not let anyone be who they want to be. I do still have the right to be myself, though, and be honest that it seems super creepy and weird.

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nialv7 15 points 6 days ago

How's putting on an animal costume creepy or weird? It's not like they are fucking in the street.

Just go to a Disney world you'll see costumed mascots roaming the park, are you going to have a problem with that? Maybe you should look inside and figure out what your problem is.

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Forester 6 points 5 days ago

Something tells me they are turned on by the furry porn and reacting the same way Republicans loudly denounce gay porn after they watch it

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Abyssian -10 points 6 days ago

If you scroll through Reddit, or Bluesky, or many general online discussion centers you'll see very clearly sexualized pictures of furry characters. The majority of images of those characters I run in to are sexualized, so that's the impression left about those costumes.

I didn't spend the last 35 years seeing a community of Disney fans constantly posting images of Mickey Mouse in a tight thong and Goofy staring at it and drooling. If I had then seeing kids going to a social event put on by members of that same community wearing those same costumers would definitely seem weird.

It's why I compared it to gimp suits. They're commonly seen as part of enacting a sexual fetish. People are wearing them in the street would seem weird and creepy, even if they weren't fucking in the street. If they were fucking in the street it would go from creepy and weird to actively committing a crime.

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Zoomboingding 13 points 6 days ago

What you're complaining about is seeing actual fetish content on a website. Like, there's porn and porn-adjacent stuff on the internet? Wowzers! It's like seeing celebrity pictures in skimpy clothes on the celeb subs, or women in bikinis on Sports Illustrated.

What you need to do is curate your content a bit more, not police others' preferences.

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anewfox 5 points 5 days ago

dude, damn near nobody is cumming in their $8000+ fursuit or covering it with lube.

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freeman 18 points 6 days ago

Thought this was !shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world

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Forester 8 points 5 days ago

I posted it there hence this post

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WalrusDragonOnABike 15 points 6 days ago

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

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Abyssian -7 points 6 days ago

It's completely normal to fantasize about having sex with members of your own species. Like all normal, healthy activities some people take it to extremes and those extremes make it something unhealthy.

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WalrusDragonOnABike 8 points 6 days ago

Idk about that. Are you sure that isn't just something perverted humans do?

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Abyssian -8 points 6 days ago

Yes. It's a facet of human psychology and one of the most important facets of evolutionary psychology.

It's so strange to see this weird internet subculture. People are very upset at the idea that I find the whole furry thing to be creepy. The internet is full of sexualized pictures of animals and it was one of the main reasons people bought those costumes when it started growing decades ago.

Somehow it's become normalized online to sexualize anthropomorphized animals, but to think humans having the basic attraction to other members of their species that leads to fantasizing and it the main reason we all exist is wrong and perverted.

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WalrusDragonOnABike 8 points 6 days ago

Somehow it’s become normalized online to sexualize anthropomorphized animals, but to think humans having the basic attraction to other members of their species that leads to fantasizing and it the main reason we all exist is wrong and perverted.

If you think your opinion here is anything other than extremely popular, perhaps you should spend less time in online furry spaces? Unless you just happen to live on of the rare places where furries are relatively more represented (like Seattle has a furry bar and maybe there's an above-average representation around the areas that host some of the biggest fur-cons like Pittsburgh & Chicago?)

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Forester 2 points 5 days ago

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Forester 3 points 5 days ago

Ah yes because when I think of my partners I view them as animals not humans roleplaying /s

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Abyssian 1 point 5 days ago

Well, enjoying porn of roughly human shaped animals and wanting people to dress up in full body animal costumes for sex doesn't scream that it's the person you're imagining fucking.

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Forester 1 point 5 days ago

Ah yes cause we exclusively have sex in those never nude or just tube socks. Ive never even seen a murr suit IRL and i've fucked over 100 other furs.

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forbiddencherry 10 points 6 days ago

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

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Abyssian -3 points 6 days ago

Disgust is an involuntary reaction, but my reasoning is what says that wanting to have sex with anthropomorphized animals is really weird and creepy.

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forbiddencherry 3 points 6 days ago

Wrong. You're not the victim here, you're the victimizer. If someone is attracted to someone or something they don't have a choice in the matter, that's what's involuntary. They do have a choice in whether they act on those feelings, but that is all. Again, they cannot choose whether or to not be attracted. If you research it, you'll learn that there is currently no humane way to change attractions, and the proof of efficacy of inhumane ways is severely lacking. Therefore, attraction itself is not wrong. It cannot be. And thus accepting one's attractions is not wrong. In fact, if one goes to therapy, a competent therapist will be helping the person to accept themselves and their attractions. It's self-destructive to try to bury those feelings or hate oneself for them. Instead, it's perfectly fine to find joy in one's attractions. Those hating and condemning others for their attractions are the ones that are the problem. Now if someone is actually sexually abusing animals that's a different matter, but there's no proof of that here. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this shirt. And no, before you accuse me of it, I'm not a furry.

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Abyssian -1 points 6 days ago

And you would say that exact same thing to defend a community of people who can't control having sexual attractions to children, who wear the costumes and fill public places with the art that would fit their attraction in the same way the furry community does?

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forbiddencherry 5 points 6 days ago

Yes

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wizblizz 9 points 5 days ago

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

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Abyssian -4 points 5 days ago

Saying that you find a thing creepy and weird isn't attacking anyone. Another person here used people literally eating shit as an example. Would you not say that people getting off literally eating shit is weird and creepy? Even if you wouldn't, I sure would.

There are over 8 billion humans. We're not all going to agree on the same things. There's a huge distinction between honestly saying a thing is creepy and trying to form mobs to hunt people who do those things down.

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wizblizz 3 points 5 days ago

Idgaf how you feel about it, be creeped out all you want, as others have pointed out this is the same rhetoric used to hate on gay and trans folks. I hate seeing this shit on here, Lemmy is for the queer, audhd, anti-establishment furry punks, and I like it that way.

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Abyssian -2 points 5 days ago

It's a bit insane to try to say no one can share opinions you don't like or agree with. Yeah, of course the same things a person says to explain why they hate olives sounds like something much worse if you switch the word "olives" for "Jews."

I've never seen anything on Lemmy that says it exists only for a few specific groups of people.

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wizblizz 3 points 4 days ago

Oh fuck off asshole, go back to reddit where you belong

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Sanctus 9 points 5 days ago

Just ordered this shirt

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wraekscadu 8 points 5 days ago

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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Abyssian -1 points 5 days ago

You missed the point of things I'd said so many times in that, that there's really no much to reply to. If you do have a developmental disability that's not a thing I would insult.

I said many times that I don't care what other people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms. However just like your own example of people literally eating shit, this one is also creepy and weird. Yes, it's completely acceptable to say that people eating shit is creepy and weird. And it definitely is.

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velma 8 points 6 days ago

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.

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KoboldCoterie 17 points 6 days ago

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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velma 2 points 6 days ago

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.

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KoboldCoterie 14 points 6 days ago

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.

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velma 6 points 6 days ago

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.

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Madzielle 4 points 6 days ago

Shes saying she saw them at the zoo though. That, is.. certainly a choice no?

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Abyssian -9 points 6 days ago

The weird part comes from a lot of people not realizing it's a sexual thing. Adults and kids both. It was only relatively recently I've heard of people wearing those suits for other things. That seems weird too, honestly. It would be like if people started wearing gimp outfits to family events and having parents ask if their kids can get a photo with them.

Even if not all people in gimp outfits are wearing them for sexual reasons, it's still a thing that's part of a sexual fetish. People starting to wear them to family events because kids who don't understand that think it looks neat would be creepy.

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KoboldCoterie 14 points 6 days ago

Cakes are part of a sexual fetish; does that make all cakes weird? Should we not have them in public, or at kids' birthdays? The fact that that isn't their primary function probably suggests that no, they're fine.

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velma 1 point 6 days ago

But people aren't wearing cakes and interacting with people that are unsuspecting that it is a fetish.

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Abyssian -1 points 6 days ago

In my experience it seems like the furry thing was heavily to primarily sexually focused from the start. That's why I compared it to gimp suits, not to cake.

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Abyssian -4 points 6 days ago

I don't care what consenting adults do with one another either, but the furry art and all of it has become so normalized that things like that happen. People are allowed to have weird sexual fetishes, but having them wear those costumes and play with kids who just see it as cute animal mascots is sketchy as hell, and the leering at zoo animals is just weird.

Like... it's fine if two grown adults like to cover themselves in mayonnaise and do unusual things to one another with pine cones. But by fine I mean "you're not hurting anyone, you're both willing participants, so there's nothing inherently immoral about it." I don't mean fine as in "this is totally sane and normal and you should not feel any sort of shame in it and should celebrate it publicly and hold MayoPiners festivals and introduce kids to your lifestyle."

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Aberration13 15 points 6 days ago

The costumes(with some exceptions) are just costumes though, not everyone who has a fursuit is even into the kinky stuff, you seem to be making a lot of assumptions and generalizations. It's not all sexual.

If anything you might be the one oversexualizing here

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velma 5 points 6 days ago

How do you tell if someone wearing a fur suit is into the kinky stuff or not? I can’t tell out in public personally.

I’m asking sincerely as I don’t mind furries generally. To each their own and all that! But I do mind when people are involving others in their kink without consent.

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Aberration13 9 points 6 days ago

Same way you go around assuming most people aren't wearing vibrators and butt plugs in public, because some definitely do but it's probably best not to make negative assumptions about people.

Personally though I don't even mind if people do kink in public so long as on a functional level it's not noticeable or at risk of making others uncomfortable.

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Forester 2 points 5 days ago

Pretty easy does the suit have "holes"

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Abyssian 1 point 6 days ago

Right. I'm the one over sexualizing the anthropomorphized animals people post blatantly sexual pictures of all over the internet. My mistake.

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Aberration13 9 points 6 days ago

I'm not denying SOME of it is sexual, but what you're doing is assuming that MOST or ALL of it is sexual, which is both wrong and also the result of cognitive biases and a good example of why extrapolation from anecdotes is a bad idea especially when it's fueled by confirmation bias

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socsa 8 points 6 days ago

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

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velma 6 points 6 days ago

very easy to avoid!

Not in certain areas to be honest. I run into furries rather frequently.

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Forester 4 points 5 days ago

Have you considered getting off the internet? We kind of run it.

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velma 5 points 5 days ago

You've mistaken my comment as a negative. I don't mind sharing the internet with furries at all. Y'all are quite nice and creative :)

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socsa 5 points 5 days ago

OP: Why do all these people in fur suits keep sucking my dick?! I'm so sick of having my dick sucked by people in fur suits! Can anyone tell me how to prevent getting my dick sucked by people in fur suits?!

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anewfox 7 points 5 days ago

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

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LemmyFeed 6 points 5 days ago

Is the furry thing like absolutely a sexual thing? I always thought some were but I figured many just liked the aesthetic or something.

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Forester 11 points 5 days ago

Not all furies are sexual we actually have a large asexual subgroup so some just like the cute art. But a lot of us also like roleplay fantasy and sex.

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LemmyFeed 5 points 5 days ago

Thank you for a real answer finally!

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Forester 5 points 5 days ago

To elaborate the fandom is basically a large open and mostly supportive community of neurodivergent people. I don't have a source but i'd wager that over 80% of us are on the autism spectrum. Yeah we are weird, we know, we do not care. Its nice to be able to express yourself more freely through a character or avatar.

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pega_sus 6 points 5 days ago

Its a persona type thing, where people draw, dress, and act like their characters. Yeah, sexuality often plays a part in art because furry is about freedom of expression. This art may also include depictions of slice of life, violence, memes, ect.

I think there's alot of nsfw because if you're going to pay for or take the time to make art, may as well make it nsfw if you want.

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wraekscadu 4 points 5 days ago

No. People like to dress up as Batman (cosplay). Some people like to have sex while dressed up as Batman.

Is cosplaying sexual? No.

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Abyssian -1 points 5 days ago

I've run into a whole lot of art of sexualized animal-people just browsing default feeds in different places. It certainly seems to have a big component of that. But even without that, putting on costumes and getting together with a lot of other grown adults so you can all pretend your animals is still really weird.

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velma 8 points 5 days ago

putting on costumes and getting together with a lot of other grown adults so you can all pretend your animals is still really weird.

This is actually the least weird part of it, I think haha

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SolSerkonos 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah it's a big costume party except your costumes are characters you created and love. It's like a party where everyone dresses as their dnd character.

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Pennywise -3 points 5 days ago

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Forester 8 points 5 days ago

There are multiple vendors selling in Jesus butt plugs. I will allow you to reconsider your opinions

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Pennywise 0 points 5 days ago

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velma 0 points 5 days ago

There are multiple vendors selling in Jesus butt plugs.

I'll counter with the Catholic religion is full of sexual iconography and myths. It's all sex, always has been.

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Abyssian 2 points 5 days ago

Going through the released Epstein files there was a picture of a ~20 year old woman prostrating naked in front of a giant image of Jesus. That stuff definitely gets creepy too.

I wonder how many communities I'll be banned from by the end of the day for being honest about things that seem creepy and having it called "transphobia."

Spiders creep me out. Sometimes clowns. People who live at the Renne Faire and never break character? Maybe a little. Millipedes and Centipedes for sure, those are definitely creepy. Some basements when the lights are off. Maybe most basements.

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LemmyFeed 6 points 5 days ago

They make lightsaber dildos but I wouldn't consider Star wars a sexual thing.

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Pennywise 1 point 5 days ago

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anewfox 1 point 5 days ago

they make dildos that look like pieces of pie stacked up and ears of corn. neither of those are furry-related.

pointing to any specific dildo design as being inherently weird just isn't a great argument, basically.

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diaphragmwp 6 points 5 days ago

I suggested writing CSS last post, this post I suggest an alternative:

Open UBlock Origin quick menu
Click the cursor hover icon
Click on some profile picture
Fuck with the sliders if you want
Done

Amazing! No more furries exist on the internet. Like ever. Zero. Well, to you, none. They may still exist, you just probably wouldn't know it.

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Abyssian -2 points 5 days ago

Everyone living in isolation in echo chambers of only the things they personally like doesn't seem like a great plan.

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HubertManne 5 points 6 days ago

yeah when you are not furry its wierd. heterosexual guy and gay sex is wierd and kinda funny. thats why its a big joke target. im betting homosexual men see heterosexual sex is wierd. honestly sex is wierd. I mean when in the moment its great with all the hormones and everything but thinking about it rationaly later. wow. this is why individual rights are so important because none of us should have anything to say about what people do that does not effect anyone else who doesn't want it to.

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RaoulDook 5 points 6 days ago

Yep.

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mortalblade 3 points 6 days ago

where r u seeing all this furry porn ?? (asking for a friend)

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Abyssian 1 point 6 days ago

Just scrolling through reddit /r/all when bored I'd always see at least one image, sometimes several. I'm not saying "porn", just overtly sexualized anthropomorphized animals.

Running in to those animal people pictures it was extremely unlikely it would be two normal, not overly sexualized characters playing chess or something, but extremely likely to be giant animated animal-girl breasts.

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Aberration13 4 points 5 days ago

Important to note that reddit and nearly all algorithmic social media measures look time so if you stop scrolling even for a split second when you see something it shows you more of that thing.

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Abyssian -1 points 5 days ago

Lol, thanks but I definitely didn't stop scrolling for that shit.

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Pennywise 3 points 5 days ago

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Abyssian 6 points 5 days ago

Yeah, the anime children thing is definitely super weird and creepy too.

"She's not 10! She's over 3,000 years old so it's totally okay. She just looks and acts 10 because if she didn't then this wouldn't turn me on."

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Blaster_M 2 points 5 days ago

An innuendo pun, I guess? I can see the meme maker doing this as a reverse pun on The Wolf of Wall Street

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HobbitFoot -1 points 6 days ago

Is it better if the furry sex is nonconsensual?

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Pennywise -6 points 5 days ago

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