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I just got back from a furry convention. Guess what? There was tons of people. People who mostly know each other online made the expensive and tedious choice to

I just got back from a furry convention. Guess what? There was tons of people. People who mostly know each other online made the expensive and tedious choice to book a room at a hotel and a train/flight and get to Ottawa to go and see people they talk to online ALL the time. There was even the option of a VR experience. We /could've/ just stayed at home. We didn't. I don't think there's a retreat from "friction" as the author puts it. I think the author is conflating their ideal activities as the only ones worth measuring. I think the thing that the pandemic actually changed was people's attitudes about letting other people dictate what they have to do.

bdjsiqoocwk 2y ago
> furry I had to Google this. According to Merriam Webster people "identify with" animals. What does that even mean to identify with an animal?
- bloak 2y ago
  It's very unclear and therefore not a good definition. (It could equally well describe native Americans with a totemic animal, which is hardly the same thing, obviously.) OED says for "furry": Also with capital initial. An enthusiast for anthropomorphic animal characters, esp. a person who dresses up in costume as such a character or uses one as an avatar in a computer-generated environment. For some enthusiasts, this interest has a sexual dimension. That seems a bit clearer though I can't vouch for its accuracy.
- smsm42 2y ago
  People that pretend they are animals (usually not real ones but anthropomorphized fictional versions). In different people the pretense can go to different depths, from occasional light cosplay to complete lifestyle change. Sometimes there's a sexual fetish component to it. Since the phrase "identify as" or "identify with" is in fashion now, that's how they are described.