Furries are cool
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That might be an instance issue, honestly. I have never seen porn of any kind cross my feed unless I specifically go looking for it. Your instance might just be federated with a bunch of furry porn communities.
My feed is basically exclusively 196, politics, Linux, Star Trek, and related meme subs to those - and I just set my feed to top 24 hours or sort by active on the all feed. But I also think a lot of communities outside of those are rather underrepresented on Lemmy.
From my understanding of federated instances, wouldn't that mean your instance disconnected from whatever instance where those communities were hosted? Additionally, my instance either hosts those communities or is still connected with them, yes? I'm trying to explain Lemmy to friends. So, I'm making sure my understanding is accurate.
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I have lots of friends who are furries. I just tell them I'm too old and don't get it, but have fun.
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had a strange discussion a couple years ago with someone who insisted their fursona / fur suit outfit should be protected like LGBTQ rights have been enshrined. I took exception to that and still do because I do not want to see this as a lever to justify excluding / persecuting LGBTQ folk who have fought for a century for their rights. The way they put it was that 'stonewall' was for furry rights as much as LGBTQ rights and my mind said: yeah but they did the fighting, they've been in the struggle, you just showed up with a fox suit with crotch zippers.... my dawg...
I'm not advocating for their persecution, nor do I believe 'we have enough diversity and should close the door'.... but I still don't see it as an equivalent.
edit: and so instead of explaining, someone just downvotes. this isn't going to help your premise.
Went to pride march recently. We obviously saw some absolutely wild costumes, lots of skin on show etc, but the furries took it to an extreme level. Like couldn't you just tone it down a little bit in public so you're not traumatising children.
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Went to pride march recently. We obviously saw some absolutely wild costumes, lots of skin on show etc, but the furries took it to an extreme level. Like couldn't you just tone it down a little bit in public so you're not traumatising children.
so we have pride parades that are all out full nudity here heh. PNW. But it's easier to explain for me. They might see some tiny shriveled dinkies. That's the majesty of human forms kids. It's not the skin that would bother me, it's the mixing of adult and kid stuff that you get with furries. A valid counter-argument is, we sexualize motherhood as well - hell the Venus of Willendorf is some people's ideal - and that's not seen as taboo.
It'll be interesting to see how this all develops in the next few decades.
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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.
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…
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From my understanding of federated instances, wouldn't that mean your instance disconnected from whatever instance where those communities were hosted? Additionally, my instance either hosts those communities or is still connected with them, yes? I'm trying to explain Lemmy to friends. So, I'm making sure my understanding is accurate.
Yeah, that's right. You're on .world, right? Which I believe is federated with just about everything. There are all kinds of instances out there, and some are more selective of which instances they're federated with to filter out communities like that.
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Yeah, that's right. You're on .world, right? Which I believe is federated with just about everything. There are all kinds of instances out there, and some are more selective of which instances they're federated with to filter out communities like that.
That's correct. I'm fine filtering them out manually, I was just very surprised at how much content I was seeing.
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furries tend to be gay men for some reason, I rarely see women in suits? they're like rare birds
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I answered with mostly the related art. That's the gross part, for me.
So you think people in fur suits are gross... Because furry art exists? What?
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I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but for the majority of furries, their fandom is at least party sexual in nature with over 70% of furries reporting they they view furry porn. Personally, I find that disgusting and I feel that the furry community's constant need for validation detracts from the seriousness of LGBT issues at large. I may be wrong in my judgements, but the claim that furries are just people with a hobby is an attempt to sweep an inconvenient truth under the rug.
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I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but for the majority of furries, their fandom is at least party sexual in nature with over 70% of furries reporting they they view furry porn. Personally, I find that disgusting and I feel that the furry community's constant need for validation detracts from the seriousness of LGBT issues at large. I may be wrong in my judgements, but the claim that furries are just people with a hobby is an attempt to sweep an inconvenient truth under the rug.
I may be wrong in my judgements
The issue is that you're conflating "furry sexuality" with beastiality when they come from very different places with very different outcomes and moral implications.
The short story is that humans at ~10yrs old start learning and coding for what features they find sexually attractive which happens to co-incide with the target audience for many anthropomorphic films/cartoons/etc. and so some small percentage start developing an aesthetic and/or sexual preference for animorphism which then creates a subculture that feeds back onto itself.
It's not "beastiality" it's "mickey mouse-iality". It's not a sexual attraction to animals, it does not result in harm to animals, it does not result in rape or consent violations from those unable to give consent. It's as close to beastiality as anime girls are.
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had a strange discussion a couple years ago with someone who insisted their fursona / fur suit outfit should be protected like LGBTQ rights have been enshrined. I took exception to that and still do because I do not want to see this as a lever to justify excluding / persecuting LGBTQ folk who have fought for a century for their rights. The way they put it was that 'stonewall' was for furry rights as much as LGBTQ rights and my mind said: yeah but they did the fighting, they've been in the struggle, you just showed up with a fox suit with crotch zippers.... my dawg...
I'm not advocating for their persecution, nor do I believe 'we have enough diversity and should close the door'.... but I still don't see it as an equivalent.
edit: and so instead of explaining, someone just downvotes. this isn't going to help your premise.
I do not want to see this as a lever to justify excluding / persecuting LGBTQ folk
You are the one pushing the lever of exclusion by arguing to remove 'just a bit' of the Q from LGBTQ.
Re-read this thread replacing 'furry' with any other form of queer and tell me that there's no struggle, fighting, persecution, etc. An equivalent of what you just said would be:
The way they put it was that 'stonewall' was for drag rights as much as LGBTQ rights and my mind said: yeah but they did the fighting, they've been in the struggle, you just showed up in clown makeup wearing a dress.... my dawg...
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I may be wrong in my judgements
The issue is that you're conflating "furry sexuality" with beastiality when they come from very different places with very different outcomes and moral implications.
The short story is that humans at ~10yrs old start learning and coding for what features they find sexually attractive which happens to co-incide with the target audience for many anthropomorphic films/cartoons/etc. and so some small percentage start developing an aesthetic and/or sexual preference for animorphism which then creates a subculture that feeds back onto itself.
It's not "beastiality" it's "mickey mouse-iality". It's not a sexual attraction to animals, it does not result in harm to animals, it does not result in rape or consent violations from those unable to give consent. It's as close to beastiality as anime girls are.
I understand the mechanics of it. I'm not conflating furry sexuality with bestiality. I am still repulsed by the attraction to anthropomorphic animals just as much as I am to the attraction to real animals - especially the furry art featuring non-human genitals. It's gross, it's weird, and it's a perversion of childhood themes that I would prefer not to be so public.
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I understand the mechanics of it. I'm not conflating furry sexuality with bestiality. I am still repulsed by the attraction to anthropomorphic animals just as much as I am to the attraction to real animals - especially the furry art featuring non-human genitals. It's gross, it's weird, and it's a perversion of childhood themes that I would prefer not to be so public.
I'm not conflating furry sexuality with bestiality
You literally said in a comment further down:
I don't find porn in general disgusting. I find furry porn disgusting because it borders on bestiality.
It's perfectly valid for you to have the feelings of "It's gross, it's weird, and a perversion of my childhood themes. I don't like it, and I don't want to see it" because honestly; Same.
The problem comes when you start arguing that they need to be shoved into a closet in order to protect the children and the "real" LGBTQ individuals.
It becomes especially problematic when you start equivocating it to things that are actually harmful like beastiality and is no different than the "all gays are pedophiles" trope.
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I do not want to see this as a lever to justify excluding / persecuting LGBTQ folk
You are the one pushing the lever of exclusion by arguing to remove 'just a bit' of the Q from LGBTQ.
Re-read this thread replacing 'furry' with any other form of queer and tell me that there's no struggle, fighting, persecution, etc. An equivalent of what you just said would be:
The way they put it was that 'stonewall' was for drag rights as much as LGBTQ rights and my mind said: yeah but they did the fighting, they've been in the struggle, you just showed up in clown makeup wearing a dress.... my dawg...
Re-read this thread replacing ‘furry’ with any other form of queer
do the LGBTQ folk consider furry a form of queer? or is that just more of the same assumption on furry folks part?
honest query because that's a lot more important to me than furry folk considering themselves lgbtq.
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I'm not conflating furry sexuality with bestiality
You literally said in a comment further down:
I don't find porn in general disgusting. I find furry porn disgusting because it borders on bestiality.
It's perfectly valid for you to have the feelings of "It's gross, it's weird, and a perversion of my childhood themes. I don't like it, and I don't want to see it" because honestly; Same.
The problem comes when you start arguing that they need to be shoved into a closet in order to protect the children and the "real" LGBTQ individuals.
It becomes especially problematic when you start equivocating it to things that are actually harmful like beastiality and is no different than the "all gays are pedophiles" trope.
Again. I'm not conflating the two. You quote me on explaining why I personally find it disgusting. Then you tell me it's okay for me to have that feeling. Great. We're on the same page.
The problem isn't conflating anthropomorphic animal porn with animal porn, it's conflating being a furry with sexual and gender identity.
Edit: I will also add that I'm not arguing we do anything to furries. If you look for my calls to action, I'm clearly just arguing that people need to admit it's a fetish community. I'm not saying we need to shove furries in the closet or make it illegal to be a furry. However, even if I did say that it would be difficult to argue it's the same as violating LGBT rights because sex and gender are central to a person's identity while being a furry is not.
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Again. I'm not conflating the two. You quote me on explaining why I personally find it disgusting. Then you tell me it's okay for me to have that feeling. Great. We're on the same page.
The problem isn't conflating anthropomorphic animal porn with animal porn, it's conflating being a furry with sexual and gender identity.
Edit: I will also add that I'm not arguing we do anything to furries. If you look for my calls to action, I'm clearly just arguing that people need to admit it's a fetish community. I'm not saying we need to shove furries in the closet or make it illegal to be a furry. However, even if I did say that it would be difficult to argue it's the same as violating LGBT rights because sex and gender are central to a person's identity while being a furry is not.
sex and gender are central to a person's identity while being a furry is not.
Sex and gender are clearly central to your identity, just as much as 'furry' is central, sometimes exclusively, to other people's identity.
it's conflating being a furry with sexual and gender identity.
Who are you to define what is or isn't a legitimate sexual or gender identity? Identity is a personal and subjective thing. For many 'furry' is a gender and/or sexual identity and to say that it isn't is no different than arguing with a trans person about theirs.
The issue isn't that you are explicitly making some call to action, it's that you are othering and implicitly calling for the persecution of other people based entirely on your personal aesthetics.
Why are heterosexuality and homosexuality not 'just part of the fetish community'?
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Re-read this thread replacing ‘furry’ with any other form of queer
do the LGBTQ folk consider furry a form of queer? or is that just more of the same assumption on furry folks part?
honest query because that's a lot more important to me than furry folk considering themselves lgbtq.
In order to be welcomed into the "LGBTQ community" you must gain acceptance from the elder queers via the standard committee process. The specifics are written down within the gay agenda if you care to get into the weeds, but 'furry' is currently pending review and is in the queue after a consensus is reached on 'asexual'. /s
Serious answer:
- LGBTQ folk are not a monolith and neither are 'furry' folk.
- This folk, me, would include them as such if that is how they self-identify because that is how you treat people.
- You do see how your questions are othering and engaging in the worst kind of gatekeeping right?
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sex and gender are central to a person's identity while being a furry is not.
Sex and gender are clearly central to your identity, just as much as 'furry' is central, sometimes exclusively, to other people's identity.
it's conflating being a furry with sexual and gender identity.
Who are you to define what is or isn't a legitimate sexual or gender identity? Identity is a personal and subjective thing. For many 'furry' is a gender and/or sexual identity and to say that it isn't is no different than arguing with a trans person about theirs.
The issue isn't that you are explicitly making some call to action, it's that you are othering and implicitly calling for the persecution of other people based entirely on your personal aesthetics.
Why are heterosexuality and homosexuality not 'just part of the fetish community'?
I'm not the one to define these terms. At best, furry is a case of gender expression, not gender identity. These are not the same concept, and I would argue that furry is not even gender expression since there isn't an underlying gender identity for it to express, though I am not an expert here.
The issue isn't that you are explicitly making some call to action, it's that you are othering and implicitly calling for the persecution of other people based entirely on your personal aesthetics.
That's not what I'm doing. Let me be clear about my central claim - the furry community is a fetish community. While I have given my personal feelings on the matter, my arguments have all been in service of this claim. Even if I were attempting to other furries, I wouldn't feel that bad on the basis that I don't believe it's a sexual orientation, sexual identity, or gender identity, rather I believe it's a fetish. However, that's not what I'm intending to do, though I admit that sharing my personal feelings on the matter may have come across that way.
If I did kink shame anybody, or otherwise make furries feel like inferior people, I want to apologize here. I don't have an issue with furries. I hope they can continue to enjoy their fetish. I just want it to be recognized for what it is.
Why are heterosexuality and homosexuality not 'just part of the fetish community'?
I have also made the claim that the misidentification of the furry community as a gender identity, sexual identity, or sexual orientation is harmful to the LGBT movement which exists to protect gender identities, sexual identities, and sexual orientations. To me, this question is a perfect example of the confusion that's brought about by the conflation of furry sexuality with the LGBT movement that is harmful to the LGBT movement.
To give my answer, it's because heterosexuality and homosexuality are not defined by their pornographic material, sex toys, roleplay scenarios, or a shared hobby in the way that furry sexuality is.
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I'm not the one to define these terms. At best, furry is a case of gender expression, not gender identity. These are not the same concept, and I would argue that furry is not even gender expression since there isn't an underlying gender identity for it to express, though I am not an expert here.
The issue isn't that you are explicitly making some call to action, it's that you are othering and implicitly calling for the persecution of other people based entirely on your personal aesthetics.
That's not what I'm doing. Let me be clear about my central claim - the furry community is a fetish community. While I have given my personal feelings on the matter, my arguments have all been in service of this claim. Even if I were attempting to other furries, I wouldn't feel that bad on the basis that I don't believe it's a sexual orientation, sexual identity, or gender identity, rather I believe it's a fetish. However, that's not what I'm intending to do, though I admit that sharing my personal feelings on the matter may have come across that way.
If I did kink shame anybody, or otherwise make furries feel like inferior people, I want to apologize here. I don't have an issue with furries. I hope they can continue to enjoy their fetish. I just want it to be recognized for what it is.
Why are heterosexuality and homosexuality not 'just part of the fetish community'?
I have also made the claim that the misidentification of the furry community as a gender identity, sexual identity, or sexual orientation is harmful to the LGBT movement which exists to protect gender identities, sexual identities, and sexual orientations. To me, this question is a perfect example of the confusion that's brought about by the conflation of furry sexuality with the LGBT movement that is harmful to the LGBT movement.
To give my answer, it's because heterosexuality and homosexuality are not defined by their pornographic material, sex toys, roleplay scenarios, or a shared hobby in the way that furry sexuality is.
a case of gender expression, not gender identity.
When those don't align that's usually referred to as dysphoria/dysmorphia. That's what the fursuits are for, just like HRT, tattoos, piercings, clothing, etc.
I just want it to be recognized for what it is.
What it is, or what you perceive it to be? I don't disagree that fetish is a part of it, but that's true of any gender/sexuality etc. It's like flattening down all homosexuality to leather daddies.
Then what are heterosexuality and homosexuality defined by?
Pornographic material: Pornhub has entirely separate sites for "straight" and "gay". Would adding a "furry" site really feel all that strange or out of place?
sex toys, roleplay scenarios: I don't think that's as strongly correlated as you're suggesting. Pony/pet play is big in the BDSM community and bad dragon toys were far from exclusively for furries. Unless you have something else in mind I'm unaware of?
Shared hobby: What exactly is the hobby all furries share?
