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by skip 08/07/2015, 7:35pm PDT |
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What's more, dressing up as animals is a brilliant shortcut past modern society's bullshit body-shaming beauty standards. The advertising industry spends billions of dollars convincing every human alive to be unhappy in the skin they're in. So furries art-and-craft new skins! Skins made of silk in the shape of a centaur! Let's see you sell that in a jar, assholes! They've short-circuited the entire body-image industry and crossed it with a fantasy novel. Using imaginary characters to counter advertising
So, I'm not opposed to his overall thesis of furries dressing up as horses because of beauty standards and bowing out of that race entirely. But, it's less fighting the power and realizing they'd rather have a hot fantasy avatar be their "true" self rather than the fat, ugly human body they have. They forfeited this race rather than lose it. Also, they're subculture has it's own beauty standards as most female and male avatars are hypersexual and "pretty" animals like rabbits, foxes, etc as opposed to ding beetles or jellyfish. |
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