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- May 30, 2021
Animal symbolism is not being a furry.
Furries wish it was but it's not. Identifying with an animal character and using it as an avatar is a pretty normie thing. See: sports teams, military mascots, criminal gangs, moeities/totems in tribal societies.
I think mascots are sort of the nonsexual manifestation in adult life of very young children playing pretend as animals. Sometimes children will LARP as an animal for days on end.