Oddbean

@9f9c30ab @roxymaxxing gal its absolutely disconnected from what therian is. therian is about getting in touch with this inner nature that has been repressed. what is more therian than rejecting this notion that its impossible to approach bio animals as one? all of these people are very clearly zoos that are overcorrecting. I think they all feel it just as much as the rest of us, are possessed by this "therian is a difference to be overcome" mindset, gargle the "animal rights activism" propaganda angle to anti-zoo rhetoric and basically just flatly consider all bestial relations to be abusive, traumatic experiences for the animal. its this humanism-driven disconnect from animals as capable agents of their own worlds, the "pet idea" that inheritely infantilizes and disables pets from learning how to be autonomous. a self-fulfilling prophecy in some cases. I'm still to this day pretty certain there are therians who don't fully comprehend what it means when some of us say they *are* their species, and all the physically embodied differences in experience those deep-rooted feelings cause. There are measured changes that (I assume) all of us here can rattle off a list of real quick if we needed to, they're so ubiquitous among people who have these attractions, it's actually concerning to see them missing from groups (because I'm pretty sure what is actually happening isn't those feelings being "missing" but actually being repressed, which if it causes most people the sort of imbalance and distress it caused me, is extremely detrimental to their mental health!)