• Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I am sorry if this comes off as offensive to anyone, I’m not trying to be.

    I don’t get furries.

    I also don’t have to completely understand their ins and outs and complexities to know they’re people who are worthy of respect for being other living people. (or non-people if they identify as non-people? Again I don’t understand them as much as I probably should).

    Regardless, shout out to all the furries out there who struggle with things I can’t even imagine.

    • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Simply put: It’s a fetish.

      It’s pretty common to not understand why some people like the things they do in fetishes. Most people don’t find feet attractive, but some people become just as aroused seeing feet as others do seeing breasts.

      (Some furries will insist up and down that it’s not a fetish, and those people are lying. They’ll claim it’s about a ton of different things, but it’s pretty easy to tell. Because the ones who deny it are the ones who like to push their fetish onto others.)

    • binarytobis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I’m cool with roleplaying as an animal person, wearing a costume, the fetish aspect, whatever. Live your life.

      I just don’t understand why they’ve all standardized to using the same terrible art style. It doesn’t look like a human, an animal, or even a sonic character (which I assume is the root), but a fourth thing. You can tell a furry by how they draw a normal human because of how deep set the habits are. Is there any other group as exclusively committed to an art style?

      If I spent that kind of money on a wolf costume I’d at least want it to vaguely look like a wolf.

      Edit: If you think these don’t heavily share a style (as compared to anthropomorphic characters from non-furry animated series, for example) then I don’t know what to tell you.

      • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.socialEnglish
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        9 months ago

        That just isn’t true. There are as many art styles in furry as there are outside of it. If you’re talking about popular artists that’s something different. But if you take one look around an artists alley you’ll see more that’s different than the same.

        • fartsparkles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Not trying to be offensive but I seriously doubt there are “as many art styles” in the furry scene vs the entirety of art that isn’t furry…

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        “I do not like a certain subset of humanity because they are different than me and I feel safe punching down at them”

        • abbotsbury@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          “I don’t think this particular hobby is cool” is not “I do not like a certain subset of humanity” and you are a clown for attempting such. If you’ve ever wondered why someone dislikes you, it is probably because of this behavior.

          • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Unfortunately, that’s not what they meant.

            Woah, you put a lot of words in my mouth. I don’t mind them at all. I just wouldn’t say they’re cool. Thinking about it now, it’s weird to think anyone is cool because of their sexual preference.

            Turns out it was the bog standard “furries are sexual deviants” stereotype that’s existed since the early days of the internet.🥱