No matter their reputation, every furry I’ve ever met has been a decent person.
My daughter likes to point out that the kids in her old school hated furries but loved the sports mascot guy in a fursuit.
there are definitely some shitty ones, but in general, the community fosters good people, and good interactions, it’s supposed to be an escapism after all.
Yeah the furry con near were I used to work ended up developing their own police because of how many local businesses were banning them for disruptive behavior, hygiene, and public displays of sexual behavior.
Sure, there are assholes in any group. That just means furries are people.
One of the characteristics of autism is rigid morals even when the morals will present a negative outcome for the one who holds those morals.
Despite the downvotes, this is true. You could also say, however, that it is an unneccesarily negative way to frame it, when you could also say that autistic people tend to be more consistent in their beliefs even at the cost of personal gain (of which mankind as a whole should learn a bit imo)
https://neuroclastic.com/autistic-people-care-too-much-research-says/
I think it’s gone over everyone’s head that I’m a furry from the furry instance The implication being that I’m also on the spectrum. This is based on my own experience and antidotes my first hand assessment of the furry fan base is that it’s full of people that possess a higher than average set of autistic traits. Like half of us are in stem Fields.
I’m not equating furries to pedophiles here, as I have absolutely no problems with them what so ever…
But this is the equivalent of saying people hate pedophiles, but love children. It’s pretty obvious that the sexualization is the difference.
As I said in another post, I was under the incorrect impression that it was primarily/exclusively a sexual fetish.
I still stand by my point because according to wikipedia it seems like sexualization is, at least, a major subculture within it, if not an outright majority.
To be clear about my point, two consenting adults can do whatever they want with each other as far as I’m concerned, and if they aren’t hurting anyone, they are alright with me. But the reason people are weird about furries and not a mascot is the sexualization attached to furries, whether justified or not, while anthropomorphized animal mascots are not about sexualizing anything.
"I’m not implying that taco eaters are responsible for the pandemic, mind you…
But there was always a line around the block at Taco Bell in the early days of the pandemic."
The moment you say “I’m not equating benign X with problematic Y”, you immediately put the idea in people’s head that X and Y have a strong correlation which serves to further skepticism and judgment of benign X.
If I didn’t do that, I would inevitably be accused of equating them. So I explicitly pointed out that I’m noy equating them. If people interpret that there is a strong correlation between the two, despite what I explicitly said, then that’s on them. If I hadn’t made it clear, then that would be on me.
Just in case I get you right. I think you are confusing being a Furry with practising sodomy. As a Furry I can assure you, that this accounts for a very small subgroup that - at least I - tend to avoid. Sex is nice as long as everyone consents and is mentally able to consent.
If I got you wrong please clarify what you meant. I don’t want to accuse you of anything ^-^
I think you are confusing being a Furry with practising sodomy.
Nah, I was under the incorrect impression that it was primarily/exclusively a sexual fetish. I still stand by my point because according to wikipedia it seems like sexualization is, at least, a major subculture within it, if not an outright majority.
I’m still waiting for the cat girls…
Edit: For whoever is downvoting me, this is literally the same group that hacked a nuclear research lab last year. Their demand was that they begin serious research into the creation of real life catgirls.
I didn’t downvote you, but the context is appreciated because I didn’t know why you said that.
Lemmy has gotten a lot less civil recently, people just downvoting for no reason and calling each other shit they wouldn’t dare say to a living person in front of them
I wouldnt call a few downvotes ‘less civil’. Without the edit, the parent comment looked like a weird non sequitur. With the comment there was more context and now it has a lot of upvotes.
I mean, downvotes are supposed to be for irrelevant comments. Anyone who missed the reference would easily assume it to be irrelevant.
I think it’s amusing how there are several people ITT that think the way people use upvotes and downvotes changed all because some amorphous entity tied to Lemmy said so.
They are absolutely “I agree with this” and “I disagree with this” buttons, Hexbear should have definitively proven that to all of you.
people just downvoting for no reason
Not what they’re for. The downvote is not a “I disagree with this comment” button, It is a measure of how relevant to the discussion a comment is.
In this case your comment about how everyone is bad and evil and everything is actually not at all relevant to anything in this discussion
I think it’s amusing how there are several people ITT that think the way people use upvotes and downvotes changed all because some amorphous entity tied to Lemmy said so.
They are absolutely “I agree with this” and “I disagree with this” buttons, Hexbear should have definitively proven that to all of you.
Thank you for your furvice o7
Among highly skilled hackers, I wonder what percentage are either on the spectrum, furry, or LGBTQ (or some combination thereof). It’s got to be at least 50%. Anyway, great work here!
Not sure about hackers but it’s kind of a meme among software developers that senior devs are more likely to be trans, furry or both.
There’s jokes about a picture of furries on a plane, that if it goes down, the entirety of internet infrastructure would collapse
The worst part is that Don McLean may not be around to write a kick ass song about it should it happen.
Edit: Do a couple of you not know what the song American Pie is about?
Based Furries. Fuck Transphobes.
