A_Wild_Alt_Appears

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh-Oh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You started this whole internet fight by attacking a subculture unprovoked, people aren’t trolling you they just think your behavior sucks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh-Oh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is absolutely rich given the things you have said in this thread.

  I do my best to politely correct people for cultural appropriation if I know the culture well enough to know its harmful or if I have explicitly learned from that group of people that it is harmful, because it is important not to center yourself in other people’s struggle.

  You know, like saying that an evil spirit from a given culture’s folklore is not evil because its convenient to your position and that claiming as much is just like racism even though its not even a little bit like racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh-Oh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a furry isnt about fucking animals, but you’re saying its about beasitiality

  Being gay or trans isn’t about fucking kids, but homophobes say it is.

  You are leaping from the thing that makes you uncomfortable to a moral argument that isnt actually supported by the thing you’re critiszing.

  The arguments have exactly the same flaw. And the fact you can make any critisism into antisemitism doesnt mean that you just shouldn’t engage with it when someone’s critisism is directly mirroring all the tropes of bigotry

  Which to be clear, being a furry isnt a protected class or anything, its a subculture. But your “deviancy” argument is literally just exactly word for word what people say about queer folks complete with the exact same foundational flaw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh-Oh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. I’m trying to provide basic answers to complex questions. You’re more than welcome to study the neuroscience and psychology of human sexuality.

  Lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh-Oh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I make the comparison because as a queer person it directly fits. The argument and the argument homophobes make are cut from the same rhetorical cloth and have the exact same faulty logic.

  Claiming it’s hollow without engaging with the argument I’m making is a lazy way to deflect from the need to reflect or rebut anything I’m saying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh-Oh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fine regarding paragraph 2, but its gross to tell an indigenous culture their evil spirit actually isnt evil and that saying so is racist. Doing so as if thats actually a progressive take is particularly gross.

  You are not the author of their culture. They are. You can imagine this is a non canonical exploration of the idea of a wendigo just like the people who imagine fucking one, but it’s an evil creature. It is their folklore that they have a ravenous hunger for human beings, and are explicitly evil.

  Claiming to have the authority to negate a culture’s own voice on aspects of their culture is a deeply disrespectful thing to do, please don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh-Oh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming up with imaginary scenarios where it’s suddenly moral to have sex with kids or sheep is super weird and creepy.

  Coming up with imaginary scenarios where being a furry is about wanting to fuck sheep is also weird, and yet here we are. My closest friend is a furry and has zero interest in sexualizing her sonas or other people’s, she just likes drawing herself as dog characters. For her it’s a way of processing different parts of herself by personifying them as separate characters, and she enjoys anthropomorphic animals as an aesthetic 🤷🏻

  The rhetoric you’re using is exactly the same harmful stuff folks say about queer folks, complete with the same leap in logic from whats happening (drawing anthro characters in various contexts including sexual ones, having queer relationships including queer sex) to something intrinsically harmful (animal abuse, pedophilia).

  Your own post is just you venting that you hate people that seem weird to you. How would anyone learn anything from that when you clearly didn’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh-Oh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wendigo (/ˈwɛndɪɡoʊ/) is a mythological creature or evil spirit originating from Algonquian folklore. The concept of the wendigo has been widely used in literature and other works of art, such as social commentary and horror fiction.

  • wikipedia

  It’s not racism to assume the creature that is canonically evil in the indigenous culture that created it 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here and available for any and all ovipositors except peter thiel’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon awakens something⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Looks different and it’s interesting” usually isnt the kind of thing I hear described as race play, thats just having ‘a type’ or fetishization. Race play refers to kink dynamics where themes around race are the basis of the sexual interaction, or a component, often involving power dynamics around race

  I’m speaking mostly as someone who’s part of the kink community and for whom kink/bdsm play a role in identity, so I may have a more narrow interpretation of it than some, but if you look up the definition I think you’ll find it generally refers to something more specific than just finding people who are aesthetically different from you to be attractive

  (Sorry for not replying for 2 weeks then just dropping back in, this is my alt so I’m not on here as often)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon awakens something⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Much of kink is people playing with the things that feel heavy to them in ways that push their buttons.

  Race and the dynamics around it are a heavy thing that we internalize as part of our social conditioning, and for some people they have a desire to play with it.

  Personally I have no interest, and its important for people to remember that the heavy things they like to play with are difficult subjects and to treat them with care (often people do not adequately engage with why raceplay is so heavy, and then engage with others in a shitty way as a result. At which point it is not play, just racism). But as long as folks treat the subject with the appropriate respect and sensitivity until they’ve negotiated a dynamic and then stay within what’s negotiated I see it as being similar to all the other ways folks like to play with the things that are heavy to them. Like consentual nonconsent, where people roleplay nonconsentual sex, or forced feminization as a way of playing with the harmful way men are measured against a metric of masculinity and punished for failing by comparing them to women as degradation.

  But then, I’m white, so folks actually impacted by the heaviness of the subject may feel differently, and its important to listen to people actually impacted by something. In the kink community in my area it crops up as a point of contention periodically.