all i know is that you wrote almost 1500 words about why voting is pointless and then did not provide any alternatives
you advocated for voting in local elections, but not before saying that voting in local elections is pointless because local politicians can be easily bribed. you advocated for joining unions, but not before saying one should be wary of doing so because unions can be captured by the institution, however that's supposed to happen.
all there is in that thread is 1500 words of doomerism. fuck doomerism, ima vote.
by the way, stop putting your own words on a pedestal just because you wrote them when you were slightly less sleep deprived. i've tried it before. it rarely works out well.
The defining characteristic of the furry fandom is a fascination with anthropomorphic (= walks on two legs and can talk) animals, whether in a sexual context or not. The sexual side of the fandom is the side that gets the most attention (and, admittedly, it is pretty big), but it is by no means the only side. The appeal is in creating a character that represents you to the wider world without revealing anything about your real life identity beyond your aesthetic choices, and along with it a persona that you can adopt for a while that has none of the responsibilities of being a human and a cool animal tail to boot. Dogs don't have jobs. They don't worry about bills. They just run around and play and be dumb and boop each other's noses. And sometimes, after a long day as a software engineer, vaccine researcher, or brain surgeon, that's exactly what you need.
With regard to the sexual side, every individual furry has different places where they draw the line with regard to resemblance to actual animals. Some stay away from sexualizing anthropomorphic characters altogether, most draw the line when a creature stops walking on two legs, some are okay with characters that look like actual wolves and cheetahs as long as they talk and think like humans, a few only draw the line when it stops being fictional, but the one thing they all have in common is a strong condemnation for actual, real-life bestiality. Zoophilia is not tolerated, anywhere. Most furries view it as morally equivalent to pedophilia.
yeah but skeletons aren't usually animate. the only way for a skeleton to be able to move without a meat suit attached to it is if it's powered by magic. and who knows what the magic can make it do
i'm not even sure that this is a case of transphobia. if i had to take a guess i'd assume that this insult to feminists everywhere saw the word "nudes" and immediately assumed
OP was a woman, who
was sending naked pictures of herself to a man, who
did not know her in person and had coerced her into doing so
i'd bet money that the "feminist" described here is the sort of person who views all sex workers as victims of the patriarchy and refuses to believe them -- or, better yet, tells them they're confused -- if they say they actually enjoy doing it
do you understand how much of the civil rights movement has happened since the eighties?
we've made them make concessions before. we've won before. we could win again.
and you... you have no idea how badly i wish i believed what i just said.