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Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is

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Re: Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is

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Post by holly01 »

ekjhgkejhgk wrote: post #5

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The connection is there because furries are mostly gay, and by extension there are also lot of trans furries. Both furries and trans people skew younger, so it's becoming more and more of a trans thing along with being a gay thing. There's also a huge overlap with autism with both being trans and a furry.

Why lgbt people are attracted to being a furry, I don't know. Maybe Disney made the male animals too sexy and a bunch of gay people latched on to that hard in childhood. Maybe its because lgbt are more online then normal and got exposed to this stuff when they were 13 and they developed a strong interest in this stuff. My feel on it as someone who's been around a ton of furries its a gay thing because its always been a gay thing.

As a trans woman it's been pretty impossible to not interact with the furry community when I'm around other gay or trans people. It's extremely common especially the younger or more online you go.

Re: Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is

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Post by OhioMan2943 »

RebeccaTheDev wrote: post #22
Analemma_ wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're getting a bunch of joking shitpost replies, but a useful answer is that it's very common for people to become furries first and then later realize they are trans, presumably because the feelings of body dysmorphia convince you that something is mismatched between your felt sense and outward appearance, but you only nail it down as gender dysphoria later.

To add on to this: if you're a "guy" still trying to feel out some really confusing feelings, playing a vixen online allows you to explore those feelings without it impacting your real life. It's the same reason it's pretty common for trans people to report preferring to play characters of their true gender in video games. It gives you a safe, low-stakes way to explore gender. With furry especially, that particular f…

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Re: Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is

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Post by Gigachad »

holly01 wrote: post #31
ekjhgkejhgk wrote: post #5

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The connection is there because furries are mostly gay, and by extension there are also lot of trans furries. Both furries and trans people skew younger, so it's becoming more and more of a trans thing along with being a gay thing. There's also a huge overlap with autism with both being trans and a furry. Why lgbt people are attracted to being a furry, I don't know. Maybe Disney made the male animals too sexy and a b…

I’ve been a furry for forever now. Way back when I was a teenager I used to hang out in a lot of tech spaces online and there just happened to be lots of furries in them. I just ended up becoming one too. Then shortly after I realised I was gay and furry spaces also happened to be an incredible place to meet other gay people my age with similar interests.

Re: Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is

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Post by shakna »

OhioMan2943 wrote: post #34
RebeccaTheDev wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add on to this: if you're a "guy" still trying to feel out some really confusing feelings, playing a vixen online allows you to explore those feelings without it impacting your real life. It's the same reason it's pretty common for trans people to report preferring to play characters of their true gender in video games. It gives you a safe, low-stakes way to explore gender. With furry especially, that particular f…

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If you experience gender dysmorphia, being forced to adopt the norms of the disconnected gender is far more psychologically damaging than exploration of something else.

Cognitive restructuring, aka adopting a new norm, is the DSM recommendation, because it usually works. Exploration is healthy.

Re: Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is

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Post by LAC-Tech »

Why are flags part of unicode? I thought the point of unicode was to add something for every glyph ever written in every text so they can be stored digitally as plain text. Flags are... not text. And who decides what sorts of flags and valid which aren't? I mean... we know who.. .but humour me.

(didn't read the article because the website is deliberately unreadable. zero guilt)

Re: Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is

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Post by tbrownaw »

OhioMan2943 wrote: post #34
RebeccaTheDev wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add on to this: if you're a "guy" still trying to feel out some really confusing feelings, playing a vixen online allows you to explore those feelings without it impacting your real life. It's the same reason it's pretty common for trans people to report preferring to play characters of their true gender in video games. It gives you a safe, low-stakes way to explore gender. With furry especially, that particular f…

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One good way to make screen time (online; video games) slightly less unhealthy is a standing desk.
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