I was chatting with an older relative and they were talking to me about how the "new trans movement" was furries now and trying to explain what a furry was while I pretended to have no clue.

It really does clue me into the current problem all around with educators. A lot of these people are truly clueless when it comes to what kids are doing on the internet. Not surprised.

Not all self styled furries are creepy pedos of course, but this is a danger zone for certain. The cute animal characters are common in kids shows so of course kids like them, and this is an easy way for pedos to predate on the kids. This overview completely fails to mention that.

It says there is no evidence that furries are associate with sexual deviancy? I laugh. If you want evidence search furries on Google with the safe search off. There's loads of evidence. If you want to scar yourself for life go ahead and search "yiffing" or for the truly depraved shit "e621" but be warned, loads of NSFL shit.

If your kid starts expressing interest in joining the "furry community" it is most likely just an awkward teenage phase brought on by porn consumption. You go look through their porn history you'll not be happy with what you see. The simple solution to this is of course to not let your kids have unsupervised access to the internet.

The only people who believe the "furries aren't sexual" bullshit are naive boomers who think they've actually won a free prize because the pop up add told them so.