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Never called anyone a predator.
Never called anyone a sexual degenerate and never condoned it, furries are an artistic subculture and not inherently sexual.
Again, never said they would be.
This doesn't make being a furry an inherently queer thing. Lots of queer people do theater, should being an actor get equated to being queer?
They're just different things, and while I don't want any harm to come to the furry community, equating furries with lgbt people whole cloth just feels disrespectful to the struggles of queer people.
Please recognize that other people in this thread are doing those things while you, separately, are merely deriding furries. And while they may not be wholly queer, there is a lot of queer people who are furries and, apparently, a least one study found that two-thirds of furries are queer. And, yes, as it happens "theatre kids" are often queer, and recognizing that a lot of homophobia is directed at theatre folk because it can be an space for queer people to safely explore their identity is somewhat important.