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.
It's a sexual preference for a thing that doesn't exist in reality. Imaginary characters people make sexualized art of online. There's a huge difference between people being themselves openly as in adult couples being free to be together with their relationship known publicly and people wearing costumes used for fetish sex to the library. I'm sure there are people somewhere who feel more comfortable in a gimp suit and a strap-on and feel like that's the real them, but most humans would react fairly negatively to seeing that in public.
Attraction can be influenced to some extent in adolescence, though. If you never see any furry things until you're an adult you're going to be less likely to find any interest in them than if you discovered them when you were young and just starting to have biology push you towards sex. Sexuality is complex, but the things you grow up used to seeing and thinking of in a sexual manner definitely have an impact.
Again, this is a baseless assumption you're fixated on to justify your position. The reality is that the vast majority of furries don't have sex in fursuits.
Then perhaps they should take a vote and decide to stop plastering the internet with images that make it seem otherwise. I'm not the one putting that association in people's minds, I'm just being honest that it is and that makes seeing those costumes in public seem very creepy.
Yet another verbatim argument people use against the queer community. "If they don't want people to think they're queer sex perverts, why don't they just stop making pornography! I'm just drawing the obvious conclusion anyone would draw!"
You're free to go around surveying random groups of adults on what they know and how they feel about furries. I'm done responding to you because I'm tired of false equivalence responses trying to twist things into homophobia or racism.
Lol no, don't try and turn this around as though I've behaved poorly. I've maintained the entire time that the language you are using is the same as what's used by bigots and racists, and made it quite clear that I don't think you are a bigot or racist. But you're free to storm off in a huff if you want, I'm for sure not gonna stop you.