The idea that clothing or other bodily coverings are somehow “dishonest”. That the “truest self” is represented by one’s nude body.
Think about it. Wouldn’t the opposite be true? Wouldn’t the outfit you pick for yourself be a truer representation of that self that whatever the body you were born with happens to look like? There’s a pretty obvious trans allegory to be made here. And also, more relevantly to me, a similarly obvious furry one.
I guess the idea comes from Genesis (or at least, that was my original exposure to it): The original humans clothing themselves is one of the main warning signs that something is terribly wrong, that the Fall has occurred. The desire to clothe oneself is one way in which the world is broken.
Anyways this is not meant to express a dislike for “revealing” clothing or anything, though I guess such clothing is also not my preference (so maybe it is connected to my take on this idk). I just don’t like the idea of clothing being some sort of “necessary evil”.
