Periodic reminder:

Marginalized people don't owe you shit.

Let them find joy in twerking in public at 4 am if they want to.

Let them laugh about stupid memes and spinning their skirts.

Let them post thirst traps even if you think it's kinda cringe.

Let them talk in uwu and wear fursuits.

Let them use neopronouns and have a gender that takes 2000 words to describe.

Let them wear their leather to Pride, or dress in exaggerated drag or dress in outfits that most people their age don't wear.

We're in a boiling world, in an end stage capitalist christofascist hellscape, and the forces who hate us ain't going to care how much we try to conform: they want us dead.

If you think less of someone because they're finding joy in an utterly harmless activity, that says far more about how you're a pathetic piece of shit than it does about them.

@JessTheUnstill Girl, you rock! This needs to be said over and over. I was a teenager during the Satanic Panic in the 90s, and was directly affected by it. I also have a very homophobic family and have never felt comfortable acting out the femininity that they felt comfortable with. Instead of accepting my differences, I was sent off to a "school" to be rid of my love of Satan and learn to respect my family and societal norms. Moral panics do nothing but hurt people and destroy free expression.
@JessTheUnstill If people are too busy focusing on garbage people and not taking joy in living, what's the point?!
@JessTheUnstill All this! I cannot understand how anyone could think the world is worse off just because others are finding their own kinds of joy in ways that don't really affect said anyone. Personally I find joy in watching others find joy, even if it's a kind of joy in which I don't feel an urge to participate.
@JessTheUnstill I've come around on furries since I met a professional mascot. The suits are a commitment for sure!

@JessTheUnstill The war on fun has been a tradition in the region that became the United States ever since the Puritans landed here. They weren't moving here for "religious freedom," they kept getting kicked out of other places because they wanted everybody to consider all forms of fun "sinful" and kill anyone who HAD fun.

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints." Billy Joel- Only the Good Die Young.