-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.)
Don’t bother trying to explain yourself to these people, anyone who’s trying to justify such severe actions towards someone for furry art or being a furry is already walking a fine line. As I or others have said, anti-furry sentiment is very often a smokescreen for queerphobia, and unfortunately this community has the highest counts of queerphobia, considering its purpose and what it’s about.
I know, when you explain once, it’s fine, twice if you’re generous, but if they ask for three explanations, it’s because the other person is stupid.
You’re responding to multiple people as if they are a single person. I don’t think it’s the multiple people asking you the same thing at the same time that are the problem here.
You can in fact, answer once and just link your other response if it’s so damn frustrating.