so fucking much of puriteen bullshit is
"oh no you are TOO WEIRD, and if I am linked to people like you I WILL LOOK BAD you should be removed from this fandom because I think fandom dynamics here will work the same as in the media properties I like"
they have to clean up. They have to purify. They have to make it acceptable
internalized because fandom dynamics demand that orthodoxy, and fandom spaces are in
platforms
where acceptability, internal and external are enforced
and it is so much just the aesthetics of things
which is also why there's so much "aestheticization" of queer identities.
The person has to fit the label, the labels are strict prescriptive definitions
why so many hate messy ones
why transphobes and exclusionists hate "queer" so much
they want everything to be cleanly defined. This camp here, that other camp there.
A lot of it is wanting safety, control over spaces. Being uncomfortable at messier people without their exact same categorization hangups
So furry puriteens seem to deal with it as a purely aesthetic aspect.
They like certain types of representation there. Certain "vibes"
So when they get to see others be furry in ways that are not like that
they recoil. They accuse. They attack.
Because they perceive THOSE as being too weird.