It's really interesting for how it both destigmatizes furries (trying to prove that they are not asocial freaks and doing that, statistically), and also at the same time stigmatizes furries medically by introducing this diagnosis of SID for *some* furries ("distorted unattained") but not all, which is introduced as having "striking" similarities to GID, is going to do...what, exactly, to benefit the furry community and those who self-identify as furs, otherkin, or therians, especially since there is no nod toward the problematics of GID itself? (It's interesting, how I could have substituted "self-diagnosed" for "self-identify" in there and my meaning would also have been clear, but skewed toward a certain medicality, don't you think?) For people such as myself, who think there might be a certain purpose in not being able to actually be furs even though/if we want to, that's really problematic.
Also: this data can be used by the furry community itself. Why are we an 89% white fandom, folks? What can we do to change that?
Also: amused to finally have statistical evidence to cooberate my personal experience of very few to no lesbians in the fandom, but LOTS of bisexual folks of all genders.
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It's really interesting for how it both destigmatizes furries (trying to prove that they are not asocial freaks and doing that, statistically), and also at the same time stigmatizes furries medically by introducing this diagnosis of SID for *some* furries ("distorted unattained") but not all, which is introduced as having "striking" similarities to GID, is going to do...what, exactly, to benefit the furry community and those who self-identify as furs, otherkin, or therians, especially since there is no nod toward the problematics of GID itself? (It's interesting, how I could have substituted "self-diagnosed" for "self-identify" in there and my meaning would also have been clear, but skewed toward a certain medicality, don't you think?) For people such as myself, who think there might be a certain purpose in not being able to actually be furs even though/if we want to, that's really problematic.
Also: this data can be used by the furry community itself. Why are we an 89% white fandom, folks? What can we do to change that?
Also: amused to finally have statistical evidence to cooberate my personal experience of very few to no lesbians in the fandom, but LOTS of bisexual folks of all genders.