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Why do some people have a extreme hate for Furries? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Alexmitter@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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I noticed that some people just have an extreme hatred for furries.
I have a friend and I would not call him a generally intolerant person at all, he knows I am homosexual and never cared unlike all other people I have ever told about that(around 6 people), but he has an extreme hatred for anything furry. Like on the level of "All furries should be killed" not the usual shit we can read on the internet.

I do not understand it, but there is really no way to get him to any not as extreme standpoint.

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[–] Melancholia@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I find the anthropomorphic children's cartoon aesthetic of furries to be extremely cringe. Its juvenile and ugly, and then when its sexualized or people are making fursuits, it becomes exponentially more cringe.

I think if furries had a better art style and less weirdly anthropomorphized, I might even be on board.

Edit: I just want to be clear that I don't hate furries at all and have friends who are furries who I love and respect. I'm just trying to be honest about what I find off-putting about it because I imagine there are other people who have a similar "cringe" reaction to the art style and translate that into hate.

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you also see "Anime" as children's cartoon aesthetic?

[–] Melancholia@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a good question. Some anime styles, definitely not. Other anime styles, maybe. But it definitely doesn't feel "childish" to me in the same way anthropomorphic animals do. It may be my personal experience. I associate anthropomorphic animals, and the particular art style of furries, to media I consumed between the ages of like 2 and 8. I wasn't exposed to anime until I was a young teenager, so it doesn't really have that association with childhood for me.

I really do find it fascinating to analyze these biases, because I do consider it an irrational bias that I have. I can analyze the reasons for it, but it isn't really a logic, just a feeling.

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I think that mainly is it, personal experience and a locked in first impression.

[–] Haunting_Tale_5150@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not a furry, I'm chill with furries, but I do wish there was more variety in the art style. A lot of it is human anime-esque with furry features or too mascot-y. I think I would be a furry if more of them were drawn like disney, looney toon, and other western cartoons. But not much is.

So even though I like cartoon animals, I can only consider myself maybe 5% furry at best.