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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Seems like the picture was shitposting, but that’s allowed. The post? I don’t think it’s trolling.
Leaving up.
Thanks. I love the irony in people are reporting a post in the “Unpopular Opinion” community for being unpopular.
they actually reported it for being not unpopular
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. :)
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”
You have a very small mind if you think all disagreement is “I don’t like it”
I’ve never spoken a word to you and you jump in to insult me. This is how intolerance works. Tribalism. When people feel one opinion or reaction is the socially acceptable one for the group and someone else is honest about disagreeing then you feel it’s socially acceptable to attack that person. Shun the outsider. The evolutionary psychology of millions of years of mainly relatively small groups spread out with little contact with outsiders definitely didn’t prepare us for being lumped together on the internet.
sorry you made a bad argument, don’t take it so personally, you’re not a victim
TBF most UO are borderline at best so this argument can be applied to all.
I find it weird that it’s either too unpopular but also not unpopular.
I think it’s unpopular here though and maybe that’s enough.
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.
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).
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.
So you don’t think people are entitled to have an opinion that something is weird to them personally.
I think that if Karoline Leavitt had said the same thing, you would push back to her rhetoric just as I’m doing here and that trying to make this into an argument over someone’s right to an opinion is an intellectually dishonest way to approach this conversation.
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.
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.
Your argument is now to insist that that I’m ‘too woke’. Please, just step back and listen to yourself for a moment. You’re better than this, and you know these arguments are in any other context bullshit. Why is there an exception when you’re the one sincerely saying these horrible things?
You’re taking the exact same rhetoric they use against queers, blacks, trans…es, and just turning it onto a group of people you don’t like. I’m not arguing that this could be extrapolated to you being bigoted against those people, I’m saying that you are literally using the same phrases as they use, just for a different group of people that you personally don’t like.
How about if it’s people masturbating in public?
Are they doing that, though? Because I’m pretty sure you’re just equating wearing a fursuit to be the same as masturbating in public to shore up your argument.
Saying a drawn character isn’t really an animal and they’d never do that to a real animal
Sorry, you edited this bit in: “Won’t someone think of the children!?!” is a tired trope too. “What if children see the pride parade, is that acceptable? What if some man claims they’re trans so they can sneak into the women’s bathroom and peep on your kid while they jerk off in a stall!!” As has been repeatedly explained in this thread, there’s a vast difference between anthro pornography and actual beastiality, much as there’s a difference between lolicon and CSAM.
As has been repeatedly explained in this thread, there’s a vast difference between anthro pornography and actual beastiality, much as there’s a difference between lolicon and CSAM.
Sorry, no. I’m never going to say that drawn or CGI images of kids having sex is alright. It’s not. I don’t care that they’re not real kids, I don’t care that they’re not real animals. It’s creepy and depicting something that’s very not alright.
You’re taking the exact same rhetoric they use against queers, blacks, trans…es, and just turning it onto a group of people you don’t like. I’m not arguing that this could be extrapolated to you being bigoted against those people, I’m saying that you are literally using the same phrases as they use, just for a different group of people that you personally don’t like.
You understand that the reason we have protected groups is because it’s not considered wrong to ever dislike anything any group of people does, right?
There are tons of things that people do that are considered bad, wrong, creepy, or weird. There are an awful lot of humans, so many of those things have many people who enjoy doing those creepy, wrong things. Just because a group of people likes doing a thing doesn’t mean it’s evil intolerance to say that thing creeps you the fuck out. That’s the reason I gave you the examples.
If there were a large group of people who decided they liked to shit their pants, reach their hands down and scoop some up and sit eating it in public, that would be weird and creepy and fucked up. Saying you found it to be that would not be similar to saying you hate Jews.
I hate when people talk on speakerphone or listen to tiktok or whatever they’re doing at full volume in public. A sadly large number of people seem to like doing that. I am intolerant of that thing, because it is annoying. That does not mean I hate black people.
You understand that the reason we have protected groups is because it’s not considered wrong to ever dislike anything any group of people does, right?
… I’m sorry, your argument is now “it’s acceptable to be racist”?
You really might want to rephrase this because I can’t figure out an interpretation of that that’s more flattering for you. This is “I’m entitled to my opinion, librul” being taken to a spectacular extreme, and I’m really hoping it’s just poorly said and not the mask off moment it feels like.
Yawn, this bullshit is as old as the internet. Leave the furries alone.
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.
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.
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.
Oh fuck off asshole, go back to reddit where you belong
No sense in putting up with hateful, insulting people so I’m just going to add you to the block list.
Some person with whom i vehemently disagreed once pointed this out to me, and it changed my perspective, so here goes:
Blocking people on Lemmy only makes it so that you can’t see anything they post. You aren’t notified when they post a comment replying to your own, but _everyone else can still see it. I recommend using user tags in certain colours, so I have one for that guy who constantly misuses the thorn (þ) in his posts, so that I’m mentally prepared for the gut punch as a student of Old Norse and Old English. That guy has a different colour flair than all of the astroturfers, crazed tankies, and dickbags, because you can set a LOT of different user tag colours. Rather than blocking them, just set them to a red flair, so that you can safely ignore anything they have to say, without potentially being slandered or otherwise made to look a fool without understanding why.
Yeah, I get that but don’t really care. I’d rather simply not have to see the idiocy, I don’t care if other idiots congregate in and tell them they’re very right and wise and it’s crazy to think wanting to have sex with animals, or kids, or blenders is creepy and weird.
i give OP a year until the furry hater -> furry pipeline kicks in.
- 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.
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.
Just ordered this shirt
An innuendo pun, I guess? I can see the meme maker doing this as a reverse pun on The Wolf of Wall Street
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.
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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Is the furry thing like absolutely a sexual thing? I always thought some were but I figured many just liked the aesthetic or something.
No. People like to dress up as Batman (cosplay). Some people like to have sex while dressed up as Batman.
Is cosplaying sexual? No.
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.
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.
Thank you for a real answer finally!
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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There are multiple vendors selling in Jesus butt plugs. I will allow you to reconsider your opinions
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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.
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.
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.”
Yeah that mod overstepped. As much as you are abrasive sometimes, I don’t think you’re transphobic for this opinion. Too bad they mod the powertrippingbastards community when they are a powertripping bastard themselves lol
Consenting adults doing consenting adult things, even if some may think it’s creepy, is completely fine and should be allowed and protected. It’s ok to think it’s creepy IF you aren’t attacking others for it and trying to stop them.
All 8 billion of us are never going to like all the same things and agree on all of the same things. It would be nice if we could be honest but not hate and try to change or murder each other. I will never support someone for eating olives, because ick. But also I try to not suggest starting lynch mobs to hunt them all down.
It bugs me a lot when people use false accusations of racism to make someone look bad and themselves look like the victim, because it demeans every real awful thing people live through. Hopefully one day this person realizes that. You can use that as a lie to get people on your side quickly, but it’s breaking trust and demeaning the struggles of the people you’re claiming to support.
They make lightsaber dildos but I wouldn’t consider Star wars a sexual thing.
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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.
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
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.
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.
Is it better if the furry sex is nonconsensual?
where r u seeing all this furry porn ?? (asking for a friend)
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.
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.
Lol, thanks but I definitely didn’t stop scrolling for that shit.
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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.”
The best part is that it’s non of your business and very easy to avoid!
very easy to avoid!
Not in certain areas to be honest. I run into furries rather frequently.
Have you considered getting off the internet? We kind of run it.
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?!
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 :)
Yep.
Thought this was !shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world
I posted it there hence this post
