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.
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.
I’m saying I think being sexually attracted to animals or imaginary animal-human hybrids is weird and creepy, and having lots of sexualized animal art then wearing those costumes in public only makes it worse.
And what I’m saying is that it’s 100% fine for you to dislike someone else’s jam, but it’s not fine to want that stuff gone from public view in spaces where it’s otherwise acceptable. As someone else said, it’s the same argument people use against LGBTQ+ content.
Having sex with animals is illegal and immoral. Having sex with minors is illegal and immoral. Images sexualizing children are generally unwelcome, because that’s fucked up. Images sexualizing animals have somehow become welcome, even though that is also fucked up.
People vocalizing dislike of any thing could be said to be using the same arguments used by racists and homophobes if you replace the actual thing they dislike with “gays” or “blacks.” This has nothing to do with LGBTQ+ anything. That’s a lazy excuse to try to make people saying anything you don’t like look bad.
I really don’t want to go on defending something I don’t really care about, but antro animals are not the same thing as actual animals. We generally consider it immoral to have sex with animals because they don’t have the intelligence to consent, and furry characters clearly have human intelligence.
Sure, and people try to “moral wash” pedophilia in the same way with imaginary 10 year old girls who are clearly designed to look and act 10 and yet said to be moral to have sex with because they’re really thousands of years old. Both of them are looking for imaginary justifications for immoral acts.