• @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    8110 months ago

    Imagine being an animal control guy and having a school seriously call you and ask you to take a stranger’s child because of that child’s participation in a subculture.

    • @Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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      610 months ago

      Pretty sure that will leave the animal control people open to being charged with botched citizen arrests. Not sure what Oklahoma’s particular arrest laws are like but for most States you are pretty limited in what you can do to perform one and the standards of places you can use to detain an arrested person in are usually at least required to be humane and actively monitored.

      The answer to "Little Timmy wore a tiger costume to school for Halloween do you have a cage available? " should properly be “Get fucked authoritarian scum I have actual work to do.”

    • @scoobford@lemmy.zip
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      -1810 months ago

      Imagine working for the state and being ordered to engage in a random citizen’s kink.

      Yes, I know being a furry isn’t just a kink.

      • @stoly@lemmy.world
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        110 months ago

        being ordered to engage in a random citizen’s

        That’s called oppression. Also furry is an identity, believe it or not.

        • Rayspekt
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          010 months ago

          I’m not buying the “furry isn’t just a kink” thing at all, but please enlighten me. How does it qualify as an identity?

          • @Breve@pawb.social
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            110 months ago

            Belonging to a fandom or other special interest community is typically something that is done through self-identification, which is different than identities that are not chosen, but still part of a broader idea of identity. There are plenty of examples of these self-chosen identities: Trekkies, Potterheads, Bronies, Cumberbitches, etc. Simply watching Star Trek doesn’t make you a Trekkie though, it’s a label people apply to themselves when they feel invested in that thing and want to be part of a community of people who feel the same. That’s all. I also hate to tell you that there are themed sex parties at Star Trek conventions too, so does that make being a Trekkie a kink? Is doing the Vulkan salute and telling someone to “live long and prosper” in public forcing that kink on others?