• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      So, sometimes I pretend to be a wizard and roll some dice about it. If one of my players showed up in armor it’d be badass. It’s a hobby. Few things are more cringe than furry hate.

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        11 months ago

        The key difference being you’re playing a game.

        If one of your players showed up wearing a fedora, hentai body pillow, and hadn’t bathed in 7 days would you still be as happy?

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          No because they should bathe and take their body pillow to a group around that. Idgaf what kind of hat they wear though.

          That’s the thing here, furry events are the time and place for furry stuff. It’s like how people dress weird and hit each other in dungeons and wrestling rings. People dress weird and say strange things in religious buildings. People dress weird, talk weird, pretend to be someone they aren’t, and often stink at Renaissance festivals. Times and places. I’m not gonna judge their hobby just like I won’t judge the SCA

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            11 months ago

            So it’s a hobby and not an identity now?

            Its completely separate from being LGBTQ+. Good.

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              Yeah that’s how I’ve always seen it. But it is a hobby they use as a stand in for queer people a lot. They love to say anti furry things and then use it as a justification before also doing transphobia. They’ve been correlating the two for at least a decade. And there’s also homophobia present in a lot of anti furry sentiment.

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      11 months ago

      Bullshit. That’s the same shit used against drag queens and crossdressers. People who were instrumental to lgbtq history. I’d have thought someone “not straight” would’ve known better.

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        11 months ago

        You’d be surprised. I’ve even encountered a lot of gay people who are against the ‘T’ or the ‘BT’ in LGBT.

        Being gay certainly makes you more likely to be progressive, but I’ve learned it definitely doesn’t guarantee it.

        Plenty of gay people are regressive, hateful fuckwits.