-A few days ago, a moderator on Digital Art banned me for supposedly posting “furry” (anthropomorphic animal) art. My works are based on yokai characters (Japanese mythology), kemonomimi (humans with animal ears and tails), and beasts (normal and mythical animals). Nothing falls into the furry category, which is exclusively for anthropomorphic animals. And it should be clarified that I have been posting in that community for months without any warning or comment about my works. I tried to contact her through comments in another community she moderates (I barely use Lemmy to post, and I’m not going to download external apps to open chats just for this, plus I don’t speak English), but she decided to delete them and not speak to me.
(I won’t get into a discussion about this; if you don’t believe me, just look up the terms mentioned. Labeling everything as furry simply because it has an animal percentage is pure ignorance, and I’m fed up with the topic because I’ve explained and shown it a thousand times to some stubborn people. Please don’t try to convince me to use the word “furry” as something universal, because it’s NOT, and I know what I draw and what I don’t.)
I think Tywèle having prejudice against people she considers furries is a red flag in my book maybe she didn’t start that rule but she’s clearly enforcing it with prejudice. Something good to keep in mind, maybe she didn’t know it but anti-furry sentiment is frequently used as a smoke screen to cover up queerphobia. I can’t say that she’s using it for that, but anti-furry sentiment has a bad reputation for a reason. And she already was giving me bad vibes before.
Also I did very recently create a new Digital Art community on Pawb.social !digitalart@pawb.social despite being on pawb.social it’s not exclusively a furry art community, it is a general purpose digital art community that people like you can post your art in, without having to worry about assholes like the mod who banned you.
good reminder that anti-furry is almost exclusively used to sneak in homophobia
Also transphobia too. A lot of anti-furry people who’ve attacked me as of late were also being extremely transphobic. I’ve also seen it used that way in other places, like on Reddit.
🫡 i support our draconic troops and their struggle against transphobes like pugjesus. In the fight against transphobia I’m gonna stand on the side that has the dragons
i think its just that once you let furry artists start posting in an art community, it tends to get flooded with mostly furry art.
an exclusion doesn’t necessarily mean prejudice. in this case it might just be to prevent it becoming only furry art.
This is a slippery slope fallacy and a pretty bad one at that considering just how few furries there are on the Lemmy side of the fediverse as a whole.
They gave the person a permanent ban over art that isn’t even furry art, their behavior and responses to the OP do seem prejudiced. If they had given a temporary ban this would be different but seeing as they didn’t, and seeing that they never shared any reasoning for why they came up with these rules, I think your comment is giving them both more charitability than they deserve. Especially considering, anti-furry sentiment is very often used as a smokescreen for homophobic and even transphobic rhetoric.
the OP had 6 posts removed previously. this is not exactly an innocent first time occurrence.
also, you and I and the mod in question have different opinions on what is and isn’t “furry art”. so its really just up to the mod to decide what that is.
also not everything has to be some cry from the oppressed. its a piece of furry art that got removed. its possible to just… not want furry art in your instance. no homophobia, no transphobia, no phobiaphobia, just please no furry art.
Removed by mod