Hope this is the right circle.
I take my 1 year old to storytime at our library and recently they included a video clip of a furry doing sign language. I know that not everyone is aware of furry subculture and it’s nasty associations with porn, so I contact the librarian and asked her to remove the content and train the other librarians on the matter.
So far she responded saying she was unaware of furries and will bring up my concerns with their content creators. I’m encouraged by this response and I’ll update with what happens next. That being said my library is obviously deep in the TRA gender nonsense even in the kids books, they hire tons of enbies, and there is a permanent display of pride/trans in the teen section.
I live in a county that has so far avoided drag story hours however it was exposes last year that the school district was covering up for students in fursuits. Emails were exposed, kids took pics, and then the district clarified it’s dress code to exclude ears, tails, and costumes…
Often I find furries seem to be good at disguising their kinks, making it seem kid-friendly, and then it becomes hard to explain to other adults and kids that it’s a fetish. If you don’t know the lingo you don’t know what to look for.
How best to describe to unsuspecting adults that furry culture is a yucky groomer vibe?
The furries are lurking as they say.
Edit: added the link to the furry whose content was in storytime. On their page they’ve “liked” a ton of pregnant male furry cartoons…
Pedestrian crossings are pieces of safety equipment. Any damage to safety equipment would be highly illegal. The fact that local councils are themselves deliberately defacing this same piece of safety equipment via painting them so as to make them ambiguous and unsafe has been pointed out as a problem, but they seem to be getting away with their vandalism. They have even been saying accidental tyre marks on these crossings are a transphobic hate crime, so I imagine they would class chalk slogans as hate crime too.
If tyre marks on a road surface are hate crimes then they better put red velvet ropes around them to stop people walking on them, walking on things is what you do to things you hate, trampling the flag.
bunch of Nazis
Blind people who complained that their guide dogs did not recognise these rainbow crossings were also called transphobic. Old people with dementia who were confused by the crossings were similarly branded as bigots.
there is one I came across about a mile or so away, I had no idea it was there I was very confused myself if it was actually a crossing for people and decided not to use it and carried on walking until I got to a real crossing.