• Oka@lemmy.ml
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    Anthro does not have to mean furry. You can still like them without being a furry

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        I’m a furry ally, but not a furry myself. I don’t engage in the community, but I appreciate their work. Furries get a bad reputation and too much hate, and we shouldn’t bully them into submission.

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          Yeah, jokes aside, I agree with that. I think it’s funny how people are as quick to label anyone supportive of anthro anything as a furry as they are to hate on actual furries themselves.

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            Let’s be honest here. Wanting to be a talking animal isn’t really any less weird than wanting to yiff one.

            Trying to distance yourself from the latter by claiming the former is a futile effort.

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              lol I don’t think most furries want to be talking animals any more than rpg players or cosplayers want to be fantasy characters. I’m sure some do but definitely not all

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    i, as a furry, couldn’t ask for anything better than seeing more furries in TV shows. They just look so cute…

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    Why are people acting like any animal based character is a furry? Did everyone forget about Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Cats Don’t Dance, Aristocats, Mickey Mouse, American Tale, The Secret of NIMH, Adventures from the Book of Virtues, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Oliver and Company, Lion King, Bambi, Chester Cheetah, The Great Mouse Detective, the Trix Rabbit, basically anything made for kids, old fables and folktales, etc feel free to add to the list

    None of this is new and it reminds me when people were losing their minds over actors playing different characters like it was a new thing

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    Anthropomorphic animals have been a staple since Disney and freaking Aesop! 600BCE. People labeling it all the same as people who have a fursona are really weird.

    It seems like this is what the bigots and outrage enthusiasts have latched into since they’ve been thoroughly shunned for hating other demographics (trans people most recently). It seems like it’s getting more posts recently.