People who have a fetish for domestication or infantilization usually have a desire to relinquish control in a controlled environment.
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Where is this happening?
Where are ppl doing that?
UPDATE: can't help but to notice not ONE of you have answered the question you just keep telling me about furries. I want an answer to why so many people are role playing as aninals
I think you'll need to be a little clearer about what you think the distinction is here. What is "animal roleplay" to you? Where are you seeing it being done?
Imma guess, like most things it seems, they always have been, we just see it more thanks to the internet.
This is an interesting point and makes me wonder: are there historical accounts of furries in history? I guess you could count things like werewolf stories, maybe, but that seems like a stretch...? I get the feeling I'm describing an existing field of study and hope there's something to read about it?
Egyptians and native Americans dressed up as animals... Or maybe I'm very uneducated and this racist.
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Lots, this kind of thing goes back deep into pre-history. I mentioned in another comment in this thread that the oldest known sculpture is of a furry and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. Lots of gods and creatures of myth are human/animal hybrids of various sorts, or straight up animal spirits.
Linking anthropomorphized animals to furry culture is quite a stretch. Even old tribal cultures where they might wear animal skins/skulls for rituals doesn't even really have much in common with what people are doing in fur suits today.
Furries are a modern example of anthropomorphic animals in culture. It's a convenient shorthand.
Someone in ancient times carving a piece of art that's a bear-man has virtually nothing to do with this:
Trying to link the two is disingenuous.
OP has been singularly unclear about what exactly he means by "role playing as animals" in the first place, so I don't see the problem here.
True. I feel like there must be a book out there. Because I'm secretly hoping for like...Socrates admitting he dressed as a hung fox or whatever (JUST AN EXAMPLE).
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If you're not talking about furries, then you're gonna need to use more words to ask your question. Who is role playing animals, under what circumstances. Are you talking about a game? Are you making political commentary? Street Theater? Help us help you.
OH, are they maybe talking about all of the inflatable animal costumes worn by protesters in the US? There've been a lot of pictures of that recently due to the No Kings protest over the weekend.
@OP If this is what you mean, it's part of a protest movement. It's a symbol, and it's making a mockery of the narrative that the protesters are violent extremists. It was popularized by one individual in a frog costume standing up to riot-geared police, and it took off in a big way last weekend all over the country.
Possible. I'd hardly call that role playing, but I could see it.
OP should take the chance to clear that up for us.
I'm a squirrel... no further questions
fair
Being savvy enough to be on the Internet must mean you have a helluva nut collection!
You buy special nuts from around the globe?
Sure, I "buy" them
Hmmm, so, you can Pirate the nuts? 😉
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..? you mean us furries? why are there so many furries? lol
if so, the human fascination with animals is ancient. over time we began attributing human traits to their behaviors and started connecting to them on personal and spiritual levels. then we started making art depicting those anthropomorphic animals on cave walls.
furries simply inhabit a persona (fursona) to express themselves behind the security of the confidence being that character gives them. a lot of us feel like our fursona is an ideal representation of ourselves. it helps us connect to our own personhood, strangely.
it’s also fun and can be sexy if ya want.
I think it is interesting that relatively recently it became possible for furries to wear suits that allow them to express themselves in this matter. How many people throughout human history wished to be able to do this, but couldn't because the "technology" simply wasn't there?
i agree heh. i’m glad i’m a furry during a good time to be one. also, with more tech we get more advanced suits and species like protogens can exist IRL. there’s a lot of suit makers too, so there’s tons of unique styles. it’s neat.
Are you not an animal? Be you vegetable or mineral?
Um, no idea what you mean. 👉👈😅
The oldest known sculpture is of a furry, and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. We've been imagining what it's like to not be human for as long as we've been human. Nothing weird about it unless people want to make it weird.
it seems like a huuuuge stretch to call either of those "furry art".
Given that OP has ended with a complete lack of clarity in what his question actually means, I see no further point in discussing details like this.
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Appropriate answer: Escapism.
Lemmy answer: people want to fuck animals.
Because the internet is full of furries. Which isn't a bad thing it's just people are judgemental as fuck and think being a furries is childish.
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I’m going to guess that it’s because most animals spend their days eating, sleeping, and fucking. Some of them don’t even “raise” their kids. They don’t have the same responsibilities that humans do. Animals are assumed to be innocent. It’s an idealized life.
I mean, most role playing will be as other humans, and we are animals. So that explains most.
After that I feel it's mostly other mammals. I guess it's easier the more similar the body is to ours?
Are you spending lots of time in VR chat roleplay servers?
Are they? Im partial to elven or half elven druids.
Where?
I guess frogs are protesting against ICE. Hope this helps
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It lets you view modern life from outside.
Which of the things we do every day are truly necessary? When you remove something or add another, what happens to the greater shape of society? What do our relationships to each other look like without cars, without jobs, without money? What might take their place?
What does it mean to be sentient? What does it mean to be human? What’s the shape of the gap between those two things?
I find it philosophically entertaining.
Sometimes I roleplay as an adult human animal.
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