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.
Furries means the humans who are in the fandom, but it also means the characters, I was referring to the characters
maybe thats the line. Sorry hi, im reading through for understanding because my intial reaction is the same as OP but its nice to see the discourse so I can learn.
So this, "It's a character" actually helps my understanding. Been a theme a bit this week, understanding how someone plays a character and stays in character. Was watching a game live stream, it had some role play, and I really didnt like this once character because he was playing someone.. just anyway. But someone explained to me the character bit, and ..Im working on it.
So when you say this here, about the furry community, and it being them playing a character, I can make sense of it a bit in this way. I dont think ill ever fully understand, but this makes sense, It's a character, like in a play, live action role play of sorts.
Depending on the person/community it can either be LARPing (playing the character in a public setting for a time, not acting in private or in other settings) or can be like method acting (always in character regardless of circumstances).
Most of us think of it more like a alter ego or mascot.