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WCDT Nov 8 - Nov 13th (4651-4655)
BenRG:
Okay, maybe Clinton was right to be worried. At the moment, Aurelia's picture is in the phrase-book next to "Innocent Abroad".
oddtail:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 08 Nov 2021, 20:37 ---Add to that the general scale of the character's anthropomorphization, often referred to as 'Level of Furry' regardless of which of the two above definitions you're going with. There's dozens of visual graphics for this, but for an idea: Thundercats is (highly anthropomorphized) scaling to MLP (talking animal).
EDIT: Seems there's a couple varieties since last I checked. 5, 7, or 9 levels. In the cases with additional levels, level 1 trnds to be 'not a furry' and is a human wearing a animal ear headband with a fake tail clipped to their pants. Level 7or 8 is a non-talking non-sapient cartoon animal (typically labrled 'please reconsider'). Level 9 seems to be a non-talking photorealistic animal labeled 'Just NO. Go back!' or something to that effect.
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"level of furry" is an idea made up by non-furries who both want to shit on furries *and* want to justify drooling over anime catgirls, but they couldn't handle the cognitive dissonance. So they made up a stupid arbitrary metric explaining why their own kinks are Not Creepy, Actually.
Which I mean, fair. Any kink is creepy from a certain perspective. But:
a) Furries are the Internet's favourite punching bag, and it's tiresome because it's so arbitrary (see this: https://xkcd.com/471/ );
b) Hating on furries quite often has homophobic and transphobic undertones, because the furry fandom has been very LGBT-friendly pretty much since its inception, and any attempts by e.g. (crypto)fascists to infilitrate or co-opt it have always met with a strong pushback (compared to some other fandoms or hobbies).
Or to put it in simpler terms: hating on furries is a very "4chan" thing, as is trying to put "how furry is it?" on a scale. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Tova:
Great talk, would subscribe to your YouTube channel.
St.Clair:
Here's a graphic from twenty years ago, and I can assure you it was a thing even further back.
oddtail:
For bonus points, it has a problem with Star Trek fanfic (putting them in the bottom tier alongside furry stuff). Which notably is one of the first places where M/M pairings of fictional characters was a thing (and most fanfics, even in early ST fandom, are/were written by women).
I think that only reinforces my general belief that much of what's mocked about fandoms and/or nerd stuff is a target for homophobic and/or misogynist reasons.
Related (and much more articulate than what I could ever write): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8E_C00dKwI
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