To be real though I know âbeing a furryâ is really controversial Still (???) but I wish everyone would relax.
IDK if you all remember but one time I made a post defending fursonas and someone made a disgusting post claiming Iâm into bestiality based on that alone. It was really graphically worded and described sex acts with animals. It was extremely upsetting. People are Wild.
When I was younger everyone I knew on the internet had a fursona, in every community I joined. Whether we were designing ourselves as Neopets or Dragons or Wolves, it was just a thing kids did. And as we got older and better at art, it was fun to reimagine those designs!!
Itâs STILL fun to say âthis is me if I lived in the woods. Iâm an otter who wears striped sweaters.â
Like Iâm sorry if that bothers you or if youâve been made to immediately assume thereâs something sexual about that.
Thereâs not for me. I think fursonas are cute, and I think the work that goes into fur suits are impressive, and unless theyâre actually individually harming another person, I think thereâs nothing wrong with furries, but the same goes for every subculture.
There are bad people in any large community. They need to be stomped out, but unless the community is branding themselves at large using those bad people, you canât exactly judge the whole community for it.
Last time I made a post like this, people anonymously sent me detailed descriptions of certain traumas they suffered by people into the furry community. The kind of people who ask for TW tags but who apparently donât see me as a person and feel they can send me graphic content at will.
And letâs not forget when there was a gas attack at that furry convention, an attempt to kill people, and the SAME people who dress up and go to anime conventions and comic cons were reblogging the headline like it was a joke.
IDK. I figure Iâll be attacked similarly for this again, but I think itâs just sorta tired and weird how immediately and negatively people react to furries still in 2019?
Especially when theyâre all also fans of stuff theyâve been bullied for. Itâs sad and boring. Get a hobby other than being mean to randos on the internet who genuinely do not deserve your ire.