• EldritchFeminity
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        31
        ·
        10 months ago

        And neither do most furries. It’s like saying gamers are fucked up because they wanna fuck Lara Croff and cosplay Let Me Solo Her. The weirdest parts of a community aren’t the only parts, or even the biggest parts. Plenty of furries just like watching Looney Tunes and Zootopia and making OCs.

        The furries=sexual deviants line was what they once said about Trekkies, and it was as true then as it is now.

          • EldritchFeminity
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            12
            ·
            10 months ago

            Put way better than I could say it, thank you. As somebody who’s been on the edge of that community for years as an artist, the hatred they get has always baffled me.

          • VolcanoWonderpants@pawb.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            8
            ·
            10 months ago

            The sample they used is likely not representative of the whole fandom; they only interviewed 334 furries in the study, from a fandom made of millions of people. And the participants were all male, too.

            …I can’t be the only one who actually reads these things, right?

            • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              10 months ago

              2000 is considered the perfect size for surveys. Anymore and you’re wasting resources on diminishing margins of error.

              • Eccitaze@yiffit.net
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                7
                ·
                10 months ago

                OK but that’s very, very fucking different from saying that furries are attracted to animals like you originally said, and that’s what is really fucking offensive, especially considering that pretty much anyone who gets outed as an actual zoophile is swiftly exiled from the furry fandom

          • Furbag@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            7
            ·
            10 months ago

            But saying there isn’t a sexual aspect about it, is not true.

            Bruh, take anything and you can probably find a sexual aspect about it.

            There’s a sexual aspect about Sports Illustrated. I’m not going to turn around and say everyone who subscribes to Sports Illustrated is a pervert.

            • AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              4
              ·
              edit-2
              10 months ago

              Facts. I mean, I know I don’t need to, but I’m going to quote Rule 34 in its entirety:

              If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.

              Take anything and I guarantee you, someone, somewhere, has sexualized it. And if not, there is Rule 35, which states

              If there is no porn of it, porn of it will be made.

              Some can interpret this as, “If you discover that something has no porn, you have a responsibility to make it.”

          • EldritchFeminity
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            10 months ago

            I didn’t say there was no sexual aspect to it, but I stand corrected that there’s some sexual aspect involved for the vast majority (at least of the men they interviewed). I wish the rest of that study wasn’t locked behind a paywall, 'cause I’m curious about the details now. I wanna know what they mean by “some aspect.” However, it’s disingenuous/misleading to say that furries are attracted to animals, as that’s zoophilia and is on the same level as pedophilia. Grouping the two together like that is like “MAPs” claiming they’re part of the LGBT. My general experience with furries is that the animal fuckers are treated on the same level as the Nazi furs.

            Whenever this kind of thing comes up, though, I can’t help but think about the internet outrage from when they made Lola Bunny’s boobs smaller in the new Space Jam movie and wonder how many of those people are the same people who call furries gross, lmao.

          • Catoblepas
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            10 months ago

            Hey, is there some reason you changed the phrase that the researchers very consistently used, which was anthropomorphic animals, which they defined in the very first sentence as being like Bugs Bunny? You get how that is not the same as looking at a living rabbit and feeling sexual arousal, right?

            I guess “most furries want to fuck characters like Bugs Bunny!!” was just obvious shit everyone already knew.

              • Catoblepas
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                10 months ago

                I did read your comment, which if you reread it yourself you might notice contains the sentence “Incorrect, most furries are attracted to animals” and no further clarification.

                If you were trying to get across that you were not talking about fucking animals when you said “most furries are attracted to animals” and linked to a study about sexual attraction in furries you might want to edit that in, because it doesn’t actually say anything like that right now.