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I just got to get this off my chest.
5 years ago
I just got out of a conversation on a touchy subject and have to say my piece.
Lately I am seeing a lot of discrimination on furries, which is always a sad thing but has always been around to. But lately I'm seeing furries condemning other furries. FurryLifeOnline (or FLO for short) has banned feral art. Now I can agree if it's sexual pictures of real animals being use in a sexual context I am completely on board with the ban. But OC's or characters who are quadrupedal (walks on four legs) seem to be banned too. A fursona is an embodiment of who we are. The form we most like ourselves a lot of the time. For me my fursona is the me I wish I was. I feel like I was born in the wrong body a lot and my sona is how I feel I was meant to be shaped. And I other furries may feel the same way. But now there are other people saying if someone rather walk on four legs instead two they are suddenly some kind of monster that has to be exiled. If we allow that as a culture what's next? No taurs? No Naga\snakes? See where I'm going with this? You you start saying what is and is not okay then someone will eventually say what you like is wrong and try take it away.
We as furries have been fighting for year to be accepted. Imagine the people who you care most about that your afraid to let know your a furry found out and said "Hey that pretty cool." Wouldn't that be a weight off your shoulders? I would actually cry if that happened to me.
But can you even ask for that if you tell someone else it's wrong to be who they are? Can we deserve to be accepted while we deny that to someone else?
I'm a fat loving, hyper, shy\dom furry wolf taur and I want to be accepted. But if I ever am so lucky to get that I want to be worthy of it. So I will now and always strive to accept others as who they are, even when it's not my own thing. And I will never force what I like on others.
How about you?
Lately I am seeing a lot of discrimination on furries, which is always a sad thing but has always been around to. But lately I'm seeing furries condemning other furries. FurryLifeOnline (or FLO for short) has banned feral art. Now I can agree if it's sexual pictures of real animals being use in a sexual context I am completely on board with the ban. But OC's or characters who are quadrupedal (walks on four legs) seem to be banned too. A fursona is an embodiment of who we are. The form we most like ourselves a lot of the time. For me my fursona is the me I wish I was. I feel like I was born in the wrong body a lot and my sona is how I feel I was meant to be shaped. And I other furries may feel the same way. But now there are other people saying if someone rather walk on four legs instead two they are suddenly some kind of monster that has to be exiled. If we allow that as a culture what's next? No taurs? No Naga\snakes? See where I'm going with this? You you start saying what is and is not okay then someone will eventually say what you like is wrong and try take it away.
We as furries have been fighting for year to be accepted. Imagine the people who you care most about that your afraid to let know your a furry found out and said "Hey that pretty cool." Wouldn't that be a weight off your shoulders? I would actually cry if that happened to me.
But can you even ask for that if you tell someone else it's wrong to be who they are? Can we deserve to be accepted while we deny that to someone else?
I'm a fat loving, hyper, shy\dom furry wolf taur and I want to be accepted. But if I ever am so lucky to get that I want to be worthy of it. So I will now and always strive to accept others as who they are, even when it's not my own thing. And I will never force what I like on others.
How about you?
We're already having to fight prejudice from people who think furry = degenerate who only thinks of sex ALL the time. We do NOT need any internal fights right now. Yes, real animal porn is bad. But saying that imaginary animal porn is also bad? They're IMAGINARY. No one is getting harmed in IMAGINARY stuff. Artists having feral OCs aren't harming anyone, are they? Let them have their joys.