I noticed that some people just have an extreme hatred for furries.
I have a friend and I would not call him a generally intolerant person at all, he knows I am homosexual and never cared unlike all other people I have ever told about that(around 6 people), but he has an extreme hatred for anything furry. Like on the level of “All furries should be killed” not the usual shit we can read on the internet.
I do not understand it, but there is really no way to get him to any not as extreme standpoint.
That’s a good question. Some anime styles, definitely not. Other anime styles, maybe. But it definitely doesn’t feel “childish” to me in the same way anthropomorphic animals do. It may be my personal experience. I associate anthropomorphic animals, and the particular art style of furries, to media I consumed between the ages of like 2 and 8. I wasn’t exposed to anime until I was a young teenager, so it doesn’t really have that association with childhood for me.
I really do find it fascinating to analyze these biases, because I do consider it an irrational bias that I have. I can analyze the reasons for it, but it isn’t really a logic, just a feeling.
I think that mainly is it, personal experience and a locked in first impression.