Daily reminder that saying that women furries should be respected because we make most of the content can be well-meaning, but also reinforces the notion that our validity in the subculture is based on a perceived 'value' on providing content for mostly white men. Try harder.

Maybe I want a cute dog icon and to hang out with friends whilst being a Marxist feminist killjoy online. That's great, but whenever the topic of women in the furry subculture comes up, it almost always boils down to 'respect women because they're the content makers.' Like...okay

An experience and subculture as broad as 'interest in anthro animals' will have varying degrees of participation and enjoyment, that can be acknowledged ALONGSIDE the fact that the subculture generally relies on women to sustain itself and maybe that's not always a good thing.

Sure, it's great (coming from the gender history gal here) that women have played such a huge and influential role in making and shaping such a weird and interesting subculture that I dabble with sometimes. Yet, it's just...let us just be weird animals online, that is enough.