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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.

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[–] anewfox@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

dude, damn near nobody is cumming in their $8000+ fursuit or covering it with lube.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Having a basic low cost gimp suit to get dirty with use and a really nice expensive gimp suit that you keep clean doesn't make wearing either one in public any less weird.

[–] Forester@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Except for your argument is dog shit based on your own previous statements in this thread. It would be much more apt to say that we put on our Sunday best when we're out in public, but when we're specifically going to play with with each other in private we're wearing board shorts and tank tops. Almost like there are two completely different types of clothing for different situations. your falsely trying to say they are one in the same thing.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm not trying to preach anything, I very definitely do see them as the same thing. Having a different "suit" to keep looking nice and not all matted and caked in bodily fluids doesn't mean wearing the nice one in public is less creepy. It's changing into the "sunday best" gimp suit.

If a group of people suddenly decided they liked having wearing gas masks and adult sized baby diapers and roleplaying as babies during sex it would be creepy and weird, and them wearing the same sort of outfit in public even more so regardless of how fancy their public gas masks and diapers look.

Wanting to have sex with animals or anthropomorphized animals in general is creepy. The sexualized art is creepy, the all of it. There is nothing about it I don't find to be weird and creepy.