Texas lawmakers file FURRIES Act, targeting animal roleplay in schools

Besides them being stupid as hell to conduct this ridiculous culture war, I take issue with another thing, the name:

Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education

It's not unlawful until you forbid it. So the title makes no sense. You're not forbidding the unlawful. You're forbidding the previously lawful, making it unlawful.

Stupid assholes.

Kinda like this one I know the litter shit is bullshit. Though we all knew those annoying ass kids in school.

My barking at people is protected under the first amendment.

Can we start torso-kicking these people? Why do we have to be civil?

I wonder how much of this is borne out of the hysteria over kids supposedly using litter boxes.

I had some gomer on the Denver Post forums that kept insisting it was not only a thing, but an epidemic. I kept asking him for the supposed evidence of this claim, all he could say was that he "talks to lots and lots of parents and teachers" and "the media won't report on it".

Students who bark, meow, hiss or make other animal noises that are not human speech

I'm not quite sure what it is exactly (/s), but maybe—just maybe—this is yet another attempt to fuck over and ostracize transfem and autistic people, but instead of being direct about it, using furries as the boogeyman.

Filing this under “Closeted conservative so ashamed of their kink that, instead of discussing their feelings with a therapist, psychiatrist, or even a trusted friend, believe everyone must share their taboo thoughts and therefore be preëmptively punished to stamp out the contagion since the only honorable alternative is undergoing apoptosis like some malfunctioning cell”.

So they're scared of people becoming furries. I know a few furries, not in the scene myself but furries are genuinely some of the nicest people I know. And also this bill seems ableist because I knew an autistic person that would growl whenever he had a meltdown. He wasn't a furry, it was just how he was wired.

Licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance.

Good luck trying to enforce that. Most people lick a small wound on their hands an fingers. It's our subconscious that triggers that.

Priorities.

Texans, next time you look at the prices in the grocery store, remember that this is what your representatives are spending their time on.

Man they are still caught up on that fake story somebody sent to one of these morons claiming kids were using litter boxes in school. It never happened but they're going to try to legislate it away anyway.

The lesson here is don't troll these idiots, they'll fucking believe it and then start passing idiotic laws for non-problems.

I can’t wait for all IT infrastructure in Texas to get compromised over this. The amount of excellent it and comp sci guys that are furries is staggering. And there are a few online collectives that can and will do damage to personal and government entities over shit like this

"Using tails, leashes, collars" - the B&D crowd isn't going to like that

They're going after easy targets like schools because if they targeted furries in the state government, all of the IT infrastructure would crumble.

Can we still say "what's up, dawg?"

It is funny that the litter box story was taken as gospel.

What a time to be alive.

Wow.

I remember learning about dinosaurs as an elementary schooler after Jurassic Park came out, and spending a few months on the playground pretending to be a velociraptor (well technically they're closer to deinonychous but w/e) ... apparently that is now banned, because otherwise I might have become a scaly, for life?

Wonderful.

Play Duck Duck Goose? Jail

Face paint? Beleive it or not Jail

Old McDonald? Straight to jail

It’s incredible that republicans can constantly waste tax dollars on worthless shit like this and still be viewed as the party of financial responsibility by their dumb ass voting base

So children are not allowed to play anymore. It breaks my heart knowing how important expressing the connection to a favourite animal is for many kids. I know nazis go for easy targets, but the fact they target children is just nauseating to me.

Man, republicans really fucking hate freedom.

“You are only allowed to express yourself in ways that are approved by the state!”

Any behavior humans do is human behavior, this law is legally dubious at best. Mimicking animals has been a human thing since humans came to be.

Okay seriously, did someone write this law just so it could be contested in court??

The forbid non human speech is written as onomatopoeias. Like how can you call that stuff nonhuman speech after literally writing it in human language? If I read this part of the law out loud am I violating the law?

I could also see the rights to perform cultural religious dances being infringed upon by this law.

Licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance

Wtf, they can't lick their fingers after eating meow? Or use a little spit to fix a popped up hair or eyebrow? This is stupid woof.

What the fuck are they looking to do, arrest kids who say "meow" in school?

fReE sPeEcH

There is no way this is real, is it?

If you’re still in Texas, and not a furry, GTFO before they criminalize something YOU think is normal and harmless.

I feel they put more effort into coming up with an acronym that into planning the actual act. I’m pretty sure in the early 90s punk phase people wore collars for fashion too.

How about focusing all this effort and passing a bill to prevent officers being pussies during an active shooter situation like in Uvalde??

But you can lick yourself and others for… other purposes?

Republicans outlawing catboys? That’s gonna make the republicans mad.

Forbid child to play animals, they will do it when grow up, just see how much Trump likes to be Putin’s dog.

As usual, the GOP is laser-focused on the most important matters facing the American public today

Make reactionaries angry at this law by saying it bans children from wearing fur.

A personal or outward display, except during a school play or by a school mascot, through surgical or superficial means of features that are non-human such as using tails, leashes, collars or other accessories designed for pets

what kind of kinky ass school mascots do Texans have

There goes any school plays with animal characters

I loved acting like a dog as a kid. We often played things like pokemon or lion king, etc. Soooo kids just can't "play animals" anymore? Wtf.

I've checked what comm I'm in and the URL several times, this is !nottheonion@lemmy.world

And if I identity as an extraterrestrial autonomous exploration and research unit, with a general mission directive of learning about humanity first hand?