also like in all seriousness furry hate is 10000% a warning sign as a sort of garden-variety expression of homophobia and transphobia. call me insane or delusional, and pardon the animal metaphor, but furries are consistently one of several common canaries in the coal mine when it comes to Acceptable and Reasonable hatred of Degeneracy. it almost always snowballs from there, too!
Once saw a clown say clowns & furries speak the same “silent language” and that stuck with me for some reason
i bet this has to do with something called Mask Work in theater, which focuses on how masks can make a person automatically emote physically in a whole different way.
The one fact about Mask Work that will tell you everything you need to know about why i say this is: people, for whatever reason, tend to behave the same ways in the same kinds of masks.
So for example, people putting on variations on this classic
all have a tendency to push their heads forward, raising their shoulders and curving their back, and to move their heads with a bit of a twisty movement, constantly looking to one side or the other with twitchy head movements when not laser focused on something. This happens the first time a person spends open-minded time in the mask, usually in front of a mirror, and it happens whether or not the person has ever seen someone else wearing the mask.
Many mask designs produce an effect that people sometimes describe as being possessed by the mask, as if the mask has a character all of it’s own that shines through no matter who is wearing it. Some masks make people have a tendency to flounce, other masks will encourage slithery movements.
And people tend to agree that the masks do not talk (that is, people trying to embody the masks do not feel like they can say words and be in the character of the mask) but that they do vocalize – so one mask may seem to make people make a sort of grumbly gibberish, and another will tend to encourage people to make sort of nasally “fnee … fnee” noises.
Anyway, the clowns and furries silent language thing has to do with this i think.
Of course the sentence also serves as a quiet knowing look about the way both groups get similarly unwarranted, visceral reactions from much of the public – a nice play on words from the clown there, who, after all, is an entertainer.
the rise of “progressive” furries that share an alarming amount of beliefs and characteristics with conservative puratism is hysterical but also somehow more annoying. like christian conservatives at least point to god and ancient texts to back up their weird cult, these furries just point to themselves and declare ‘im the objective moral genius’. and yes this is partially in reference to all the furries on twitter flipping their goddamn wig over furry wolf tits on someones desktop and how that some sort of moral failing
Imagine genuinely thinking that a person being hypothetically attracted to a fictional character portrayed as a drawing of a dog meant that the same person was certainly interested in physical sexual congress with a real, actual living canine.
Last I checked, dogs don’t talk, solve mysteries, or make sandwiches from loose ingredients in the fridge.
Antis cannot discern reality from fiction and that’s extremely troubling.
(for clarity’s same, Scooby Doo is not my type. I always liked Freddy.)
Assuming you’re trying to avoid dating websites and apps (which I would suggest avoiding) my advice is to seek out 18+ furry spaces, be that discord servers or art websites (try furaffinity).
Also fetish roleplaying spaces. Even if you’re not into fetish or roleplaying specifically, the “general chat” areas of those spaces can be great casual talking and flirting spaces.
You might be interested in checking out f-list which has a robust array of chat areas.
Disclaimer that I haven’t spent a lot of time hanging around these spaces in the last five years, so attitudes could have changed, but I have had positive experiences in the past.
