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Ret the Folf mastodon (AP)
I don’t go to cons, I don’t own a fursuit, I don’t have much art, I don’t do VR. But I’m a furry, and anyone who says otherwise is a gatekeeping fuck.
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Kay Ohtie mastodon (AP)

does anyone actually say that unironically who has any weight, or did I (thankfully) miss seeing any related comments along the same vein?

Like def true, I just see folks say something like this from time to time and it usually seems to be a reaction chain that after digging came from either someone misunderstanding a sarcastic comment someone else made or reacting to some hoity poputot saying something like that.

But yis def a furry ❤

Ret the Folf mastodon (AP)
@KayOhtie someone on another platform kinda made the implication and it rubbed me up the wrong way :blobfoxsad: Then I remembered I don’t care what they think :blobfoxsnug:
Light/386 2.1 mastodon (AP)

You are as long as you want to say you are. It's such a very loose term for so many folk with varying degrees of interest in anthro stuff.

And at the end of the day, really isn't anyone else's business.

Pippin friendica
A furry (fan) is someone who like furries (anthropomorphic animals), and it's perfectly possible to like something without any visible evidence, so yeah, that kind of gatekeeping is stupid and wrong.
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