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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Not a furry either but I really appreciate just the sheer amount of effort these people put into the costumes. must take a lot of time and money to do but these people love what they do and go to these conventions where they have tons of fun. props to them!! ๐
Dedication and creativity
Those outfits look really impressive upclose.
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.
So I agree with your result but not with the path you took to get there. If we find out tomorrow that there's some other part of gender or sexuality and people start identifying as that because now their life makes sense with this new label then they should be allowed in even though they didn't fight or struggle.
But furries aren't a sexuality or gender, they're a hobby. It's just a fun suit and roleplay. That can be enough to base a life around, but it's a learned hobby like video games or d&d. Not something they're born with that would cause persecution along with gay and trans rights
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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...
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