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Weird. A real thing that somehow made it through every level... This is truly a remarkable example of the Swiss cheese model in action.
I give you, an eBay listing: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/314945286881
I don't see why any level would go "Oh furries are going to love this, and we can't have that" and change the design.
How many NBA mascots would lose their jobs if we were all so uptight about shit like this?
This guy is safe
I feel unsafe looking at that picture.
Displaying that mascot qualifies as large scale mental abuse.
Agreed, @[email protected] would be best if you wrap that image in a spoiler.
The girl looks uncomfortable being next to it too
If I'm put in charge, that guy is the first to go.
Giant zombie baby from Dead Alive?
Based on the photos of the mascots, there's no way they didn't hire a furry to draw those.
It's funny how it's so distinctly "furry" over just "animal mascot" but I can't put my finger on the details that make it so
$50 all in w/ shipping to the US‽
Jesus take the wheel I'm about to make some poor financial decisions
TIL Swiss cheese model
Lizard kinda cute tho 👀
That's Lizzie! She's adorable!!
She's the Paralympics mascot, and a frilled lizard! Her frill is shaped like Australia!
Why would it be a hazard or remarkable or even something special that it "made through"… It's just a mascot, and a good one as well
Because it's very very obviously a fursona
… and?
That's not something that's generally appropriate for a government to post, or anyone in a professional setting.
Because…? In what way is a fursona not "aPpRoPrIaTe"? That literally just describes half of all mascots, furry is essentially just an antropomorphic animal. Again, you haven't given any real reason why there would be anything wrong with this, at all.
Because a furry is a sexual fetish/kink and a mascot is not typically a fetish or kink.
Hey, sorry for the really late answer lol; I was busy and then forgot about it. But I hope that you'll still see / read this.
Because that's actually just a misconception and not true. Being a furry is nothing inherently sexual.
I even know quite some furries that are asexual and do nothing sexual or kinky in any way. Of course there are furries that also see it as something sexual, but that's just a part of it. I think you can compare it to anime. Anime is just an art form that many people find interesting and like. And yes, there is hentai, yaoi, etc. because you can sexualize anime, and some people like sexual animes, but that doesn't make the concept of a anime itself sexual.
Being a furry is primarily just liking anthropomorphic animals and the art that contains them. Furries like stuff like Zootopia or Robin Hood (Disney), The Fantastic Mr. Fox or Puss in Boots. Many furries like to draw art of their own anthropomorphic version, their fursona, something like the image above. And some furries have fursuits in which they can feel more liberated as their persona they identify with. In the city here, there is a public fursuit walk once a month where hundreds of furries walk in fursuits through the city. None of that is sexual whatsoever; they're just people that like the concept and art of anthropomorphic animals.
I got reminded of this because I'm currently on the university fair (of my uni) with my official university furry group (I'm a member). And that is nothing sexual either. We're just some nice people that chill here, some wear ears or tail (one even a full fursuit) and we just like anthropomorphic animals and find them interesting.
You're a furry if you like anthros, like media of them (like movies) or like to draw them by yourself, maybe make an own character. And yes, some also like this in a sexual way, like you can sexualise everything that's part of your life, and any art style. But it's really just wrong to say being a furry is primarily something sexual, because it's primarily just liking this kind of art, like anime fans are primarily fans of such an art style and liking anime itself is not a fetish either. There is nothing inherently sexual or bad or inappropriate about furries.
This is a real banner
I don't see why any level, even knowing "furry" would find these particular designs "objectionable" and worthy of rejecting. They aren't even vaguely fetishized.