Not OP, but I think furries are weird. You can do whatever you want, but I’ve never met a furry I liked. They also insert their weird fetish into everything they touch.

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CursedSilicon 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ah, the "I don't hate the gays I just wish they'd keep that at home!"

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thin_carapace 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> why is it okay for sex fetishists to act out sex fetishes in public around kids?

I don't think that's what furries generally do, nor homosexuals for that part, unless you count holding hands or kissing each other on the mouth as "acting out sex fetishes in public"? I don't think I've seen that even once, but living in a "party city", I've more than once seen drunk heterosexual couples having sex in the streets and in the metro.

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thin_carapace 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Being in an animal suit is "act out sex fetishes in public" because that same suit might be used later in connection with sexual activities? Doesn't that make every heterosexual couples clothes also "acting out sex fetishes in public" somehow then?

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thin_carapace an hour ago | parent [-]

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	▲	bschwindHN 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> i can't play devil's advocate for intentionally doing that around kids. I can't even maintain good faith anymore, next time I see that shit I'm putting a stop to it, unless one of you can convince me not to. We're gonna see some bad headlines coming from this guy's local Charles E. Cheese real soon...

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koolala 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why do you think this has anything to do with the article? No one needs to endulge your bigotry.

	▲	thin_carapace 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		genuinely curious as to what makes people think it's okay to publicly engage in behaviour directly linked to a sexual fetish which links to the article as per the grandparent comment. I specified around the kids because furries near me go out of their way to have their parties exactly where kids have their parties. nobody has to respond to me, that's true. nobody has to call me names either yet here you are.

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koolala 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you share biggoted opinions when people didn't ask you, you don't seem very likable so it might specifically be a you thing.

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DaSHacka 2 hours ago | parent [-]

bigoted = perform kink fursuit play in areas children aren't present in, please.

if you call that ""bigoted"", you're gonna hate what the majority of people would self-identify as.

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Gigachad 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If you see the picture in the article and think it's a kink image then that says more about you than anything.

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DaSHacka 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I was replying to GP's assertion more so than just the content in the post itself.

For minor references like the image in the OP post it's whatever. I personally find furry art/culture repugnant, but I know plenty of people feel the same way about other things I like (and of which I insert references to in my projects) so I can't exactly get mad about it.

Still don't agree with the overall concerning trend towards exposing kids to (deviant) sexual material from a young age though, and doubly so that anyone who feels the same is a 'bigot'.

First time I saw a dude on all fours with nothing but boxers, a leather bondage dog mask, and a leash being held by his partner at PRIDE while children came up to pet him was jarring, to say the least.

	▲	Gigachad an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Context is everything though. I've met people who believe every flipper zero owner is criminal scum using it to steal cars or break in to houses. When the reality is it's a toy radio for the majority of users. It's the same for everything. Most furry content has nothing sexual about it, the image in the article is entirely appropriate. >saw a dude on all fours with nothing but boxers, a leather bondage dog mask For what it's worth, as a furry I'm also very much not in favor of these people, but they are an entirely different group that doesn't have much to do with furries at all despite superficial similarities. Furries can no more control these people than developers and tinkerers can stop car thieves abusing RF bugs.

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loneboat an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same. If the whole point is "people should be left alone to do what they want" then fine, but that should also include my right to think, "eh yeah, that's a bit weird".

And quite frankly, I think many people in the furry community enjoy being thought weird - for many it's sort of the point.

	▲	thin_carapace an hour ago \| parent [-]
		exhibitionism being tied in with the fetish is the first valid explanation I've seen in the thread, I'll be impressed if the furries admit it themselves but so far it seems that name calling and spurious arguments is the best ill get, thanks for helping clarify things

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mplewis 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I guarantee you've met a furry and not known it.