There seem to be some people on Lemmy who genuinely believe that they are an animal. They say they are an “unperson” or discuss conversing with “animals” who “happen to be born in human bodies”. They see their struggle as on par with the struggle for trans people, and their right to be recognized as animals as a part of a broader societal struggle for queer acceptance.
Well, this is fucking stupid.
First of all, comparing “I’m a puppy uWu” to gender dysphoria trivializes what trans people go through. Furries are not struggling like trans people. They are simply mocking trans people (whether that mockery is intentional or not is besides the point).
Second of all, you’re not a fucking animal bro ffs. Being an animal isn’t a state of mind. It isn’t a vibe. It isn’t a social construct. It isn’t something you’re assigned at birth. It’s about DNA. You have 50% of DNA from a human mom, and 50% of your DNA from a human dad, so you have 100% human DNA (granted maybe you have like 0.1% Neanderthal DNA but whatever). So you’re a human. This shouldn’t be a hard concept to grasp.
If you can speak a human language, and have the mental wherewithal required to use the internet, then you have a HUMAN MIND. And if you “just so happen to be born in a human body” then you have a HUMAN BODY. HUMAN MIND + HUMAN BODY = HUMAN. IT’S ALL HUMAN. YOU ARE HUMAN. Just because you have a bestiality fetish does not make you a fucking bobcat ffs
No one knows what the fuck a “therian” or “otherkin” is. People do not use these terms unless they are already a furry. Everyone outside of the community just uses the word “furry”. Is that less precise? Sure. But I’m not here to use technical jargon invented by a bestiality-centred internet community. Speak English
“Everyone I talked to says asians look all the same, so do I”
“People don’t understand what all these LGBT letters mean unless they’re already gay”
“I’m not here to use words invented by a pedophilia-centered community, you gays are all pedos, I am here to remind you of my superiority and any attempts at educating me are futile because I don’t need to learn anything new, I’m not ignorant at all. Speak English”
So I think it’s dumb for someone to think that they are literally a dog. And in your mind this is comparable to racism and homophobia? Get a life
Your reasoning is comparable to the reasoning behind racism and homophobia, because you are using misinformation as a basis for prejudice.
Being a hater of anyone with a non-human alter ego isn’t comparable in terms of harm and moral severity to racism and homophobia, if that’s what worries you.
Throwing a crumpled piece of paper at someone else isn’t comparable to someone throwing a rock or a grenade at someone else, if your only metric is damage. In both cases the person throwing is an aggressor though. Different scale, same mechanism.
Those are English words. They are used in conversations held in English, between people who speak English. That’s how language works. People come up with words to signify things that didn’t have words before.
It’s jargon. No one uses those words who isn’t already a furry
I’m not a furry, and I use them and know what they mean. There you go, disproven.
You are an outlier
And yet I am part of “everyone”, by definition of the word. You did ask that we speak English, no?
Once again, you are getting on my case because you take everything I’m saying hyper-literally. Do you have autism or are you just that literal minded?
Not diagnosed, to the best of my knowledge. I’m only trying to get you to think over words you’re choosing to type.
Clearly you have more than enough free time to do a bit of research, since you care to type replies to everyone in the thread.
Once again, you are taking my words hyper-literally. When I say “I have better things to do with my time” I do not mean that I literally cannot set the time aside to research furries. It means that I would prefer to stab my eyes out with a fork than have to spend time reading psychotic dribble written by someone who thinks they are literally a rhinoceros (and no, I don’t mean that I would literally prefer to stab my eyes out)
Yeah, because if you don’t know something then clearly nobody on earth could know.
You should really reflect on why you’re so dead set on hating a group you know next to nothing about.
Do you honestly think the average person knows furry technical jargon? Touch some grass
You’re arguing on LEMMY dude. You’re a statistically insignificant outlier already. And an asshole.