Being a zoophile means that people who don’t know you or anything about you feel perfectly free to assert - and even vehemently insist - things about you that are not merely untrue but utterly antithetical to who you actually are and everything you stand for.
There are lots of zoo artists guys, so commission someone who's worth your money.
Support people who support you. After all, it's pride month, not shame month.
Twitter is one of the few places zoos can speak as zoos and be heard at all. We’re no strangers to ridicule, demonization and violence. We know what we’re going to face by speaking up. Chew on the fact that we’re doing so anyway. It’s that important to us.
You do not get to tell the story of who we are anymore. You do not get to publicly excoriate and deride us without opposition. We can speak for ourselves, and we will do so.
And they do so with the expectation that they’ll not be called out on it, or that those who call them out will be inarticulate and dumb. When they find otherwise, they either bullheadedly disregard all contradictory statements, strawman those statements, or end the conversation.
And that is not okay. Not remotely close to acceptable. For them it’s a twitter argument or a need to publicly disavow tolerance of a demonized group. Rarely is it sincere, though there may be some who sincerely misunderstand. For us it’s life and death, freedom and imprisonment.
The lives of our partners are at stake, which I doubt those who malign and demonize us even consider. The lives of nonhumans known to have had sexual relations with humans are usually forfeit. This not because they are irredeemably damaged, despite such claims.
Guys! As there are a lot of really insecure dingleberries who don't deserve your business, be sure to give your hard-earned cash to ZOOPHILE artists who won't engage in this kind of histrionic high-school bullshit at your expense!
Feel free to link zoo artists below.
Just wanna tell all my zoos here and everywhere that I fuckin love you all. Personal, political etc differences aside, I fucking LOVE zoos and I’m blessed to be your friend and comrade. I live for you.
For those who don’t know, zoophiles have our own pride celebration, Zoo Pride Week, which occurs July 1st till July 7th. It was instituted last year and conceived of as a holiday of celebration rather than as a public demonstration.
So, so many people not freaking out, worrying that everyone will think they're a zoophile if they don't declare their undying hatred for zoophiles. The vast majority of people, actually. They just...don't even worry about it.
Happy Zoo Pride Week y’all ❤️
Make everything you do a fulfillment and celebration of the best of yourself.
Stay strong, stay proud, stay defiant.
I love you.
"Acceptance will never happen."
Acceptance will never be universal, but it doesn't need to be. Acceptance has happened and does happen and shall happen. Don't believe it? Try it. Maybe with yourself, to start. See where it goes.
The supposed inability of nonhumans to consent to sex with humans was introduced by an anti zoo and popularized by a dog killer expressly to harm zoos and our partners. If you don’t know that then you don’t know enough to even be talking about this.
Zoos have been pretty open about exactly what discourse we want, and folks, this ain't it.
, , , any number of openly zoo accounts - what we're about is neither secret nor nefarious.
Back to work.
My dad came on
@ZooierThanThou
for an interview after I came out, as did
@1Dapperdonkey
's mom. You can listen to what the actual parents of actual zoos actually have to say about it on the following episodes:
The very fact that people think this is ok even as a joke makes me sick. I find it so ironic so how antis will say we are the abusers but then threten us (aka mental abuse)
I hid for years.
It's amazing how little was needed to erode years of denial.
It doesn't "go away". Not if it's true.
The sooner you can make leave with yourself and love yourself the sooner you'll begin living a life worth living.
@ZetaFoxyfluffs
The funny thing is that if all the zoos involved in cons actually stopped participating the conventions would collapse. Whereas if all the insecure dingleberries et al stopped participating conventions would go back to be being fun and supportive experiences.
I feel bad for all those mental health professionals who paid out the ass to go to college and get degrees and certifications when they could have downloaded twitter for free and become instantly qualified to analyze and diagnose anyone without even meeting them. The poor fools.
@TacitBlush
The fact that the lives and internal experiences of nonhuman beings have inherent value is exactly why I'm a vegan. Appreciation of that value is *the* fact that informs my life. The voluntary exploitation, abuse and murder of nonhumans is the quintessential horror of our time.
Don't know if I've mentioned this before but I'm queer. Like *fucking* queer. Like androgynous mescaline & mdma desert rave pink tailed can't-tell-if-i'm-"a-boy-or-a-girl-or-what"-till-you-get-right-up-and-talk-to-me queer.
Queer with a capital QUEER queer.
So, fine by me.
@Sherrie37749786
@FBI
See the thing is that being a zoophile isn't a crime, interspecies sex isn't federally banned, and
@fbi
's account specifically says not to send them tips. PLUS you've broken Twitter's TOS multiple times for encouraging self harm and suicide, which I've now reported. So, bye.
If eveey closet zoo decided simultaneously they'd had enough of the antizoo bullshit the vocal antizoos would all either have come out as zoo or been utterly ostracized from the fandom within a week or two. Any remainder would pretend they never said shit.
A dog communicates.
A zoo mentions this as an example of interspecies communication.
A troll demonstrates their utterly bad faith agenda.
This is the template of troll behavior.
Do you see why interacting with trolls is *at best* pointless?
AT. BEST.
@ZooierThanThou
@Alexa_traveler
@1Dapperdonkey
@OneBigGrumpyRat
That was only my dad, btw. My whole immediate family knows, and I have all of their unqualified love and support in all areas of life.
My human partner, also a zoo, and I just had a wonderful weekend meeting up with my parents and getting some seriously dank chow.
I realize that it's torturous to repressed people to witness unrepressed people being open and happy about the same thing, but the pain of the repressed is not the fault or responsibility of the unrepressed. Period.
I’ve never had anyone who knows me personally reject me for being a zoophile. Even the ones who’ve had difficulty of some degree or other with it.
I’ve also never much socialized with furries, which fact may be relevant in some significant way...
Zoos speak anonymously, those of us who speak, because the danger to ourselves - and moreso, to our partners - is great, and the prejudice against us is great.
We speak because we know that the majority of us are well within the bounds of common decency.
I don't usually show this publicly, but for anyone who hasn't thought of it before I thought it might be good to demonstrate:
I delete the stupid message without opening it, then I block and forget about the dingleberry forever and watch Game Grumps with my zoo boyfriend. Easy!
Keep in mind that there really are good people in the world, a lot of them, who rejoice at the success and good fortune of others, who will celebrate and honor you and care about you even when you're not present. Most of them don't get recorded and recognized. But they're there.
@TacitBlush
Respect is the absolute tenant of my attitude toward other beings. If you think that that is somehow incompatible with sexuality that's your own hangup. Animals, human and otherwise, are sexual, and are completely capable of communicating sexual desires and boundaries.
@Goodboyluvr
The first furry I ever met was coming out of the first con I ever went to (’99) as I went in, and had a big silver zeta hanging on his collar, stopped to look at my shirt - which had the biggest zeta that’d fit - and said “yours is as blatant as mine!”
No one else mentioned it.
This is exactly why we need to be out here telling our story, individually and collectively.
Hatemongers who know nothing of our story are not entitled to declare it ended.
People trying to stop what you're doing: a good sign that you should keep at it.
We get a lot of emails from zoos who've been positively impacted by the podcast, and a lot of spite from trolls and dips like this, and it all serves the same end as far as the podcast is concerned.
It's nice knowing your homie who people are trying to destroy is having a blast and lots of hot sex right this minute while his enemies are publicly whining about how they're unable to destroy him.
Happy Saturday ❤️
Oh we sure DO know! ;3
Any real zoo knows exactly what you mean, amirite? UwU
And you’d know better than any, seeing what a Big Zoo you are ;D
Good to see you puttin it out there, being zoo an in proud, like a real
#zoosexual
!
UWU
@bezoodocrime
Well you can certainly celebrate pride whenever and for as long as you want but zoo pride was conceived of as a week long social celebration starting on the first of July. ZT Horse initiated it back in 2019.
So until at least tomorrow, Happy Zoo Pride y'all 💖
Would you eat meat grown in a lab? U.S. regulators have given approval to the first-ever chicken meat grown from cultured cells. It's said to taste just like the real deal.
This is why we speak for ourselves. As we do so, understanding of who we actually are and what we’re about grows, and those who are true to themselves recognize and respect that, and accept us.
If we didn’t, then only malign, small souled voices like this would be heard.
I am NOT joining Twitter spaces hosted by antis or where antis can talk.
I'm not giving them my time, energy or attention when I could much better focusing on helping fellow zoos.
We don't need to convince antis to progress socially. We need to empower zoos.
@TacitBlush
It's ironic that you make a point that humans have advanced our self-understanding by observing and interacting with nonhumans, but then deny that same fact in regards to one of the most pressing and universal drives, and assert that that realm is somehow utterly unnavigable.
The dangers present in marginalized and demonized communities are a product of marginalization and demonization; they are not somehow inherent to the communities.
Additionally, punching down is always expending energy in the wrong direction, which harms ALL marginalized people.
In a community like the zoo community, we need unity, kindess, and strength.
To achieve that we need to converse with eachother, make other zoo friends, build each other up not break each other down.
We need to get to know each other like a family, because for some, it is.
I don't remember having known of this specifically, but it doesn't surprise me.
There's a strong impulse to shut down legitimate discussion or study of this topic, at least when it's raised by anyone who doesn't take a condemnatory stance.
They're afraid we're not monsters.
Hani Miletski is a very brave soul. I recall hearing Rev. Debra Haffner brag about tearing down Miletski's bulletin board request for contact w/zoophiles posted at a SocietyForTheScientificStudyOfSexuality meeting! She said she didn't want media to associate
#bestiality
w/SSSS!
Jason sent me a video of Lucy’s tail wagging in her sleep. The fact that her tail can move is very promising for her prospects for recovering her ability to walk.
If you have a couple bucks to do some good with, please help 💖
This is Toggle aka the sexiest bipedal rat on the face of dog’s green earth and primary cohost of Zooier Than Thou, a podcast by, for and about zoophiles!
Wanna find out what violet’s pretending to be outraged by? Listen to the podcast to find out :3
Man I'm feeling really low self esteem :(
Say, who wants to find a marginalized minority who can be abused with impunity with me?? Like, people we can be praised and supported for publicly smearing with extreme prejudice, know what I mean?
Anyone up for it?? :D
Pfft what does Miletski know about zoophilia? I'll get my info from clueless pottymouthed morons on YouTube who think 'its a paraphilia' is some kind of magically devastating incantation, thank you very much.
THREE YEARS, y'all.
Ever wonder what a bunch of zoophiles might have to talk about for 2 to 3 well-edited hours each month for 36 months and counting?
ZooTT continues to provide the answer, regardless.
Take a listen. I'll be surprised if your not surprised.
The moon is full, and that means it’s time for the final
#ZooTT
of the season! We do ALL the emails, share some bloopers and outtakes, and howl at the moon! Plus, I really like our Ask Zooey this month!
Listen here:
Subscribe here:
@ZetaFoxyfluffs
@ThatFoxoCalon
My first kiss(es) were with a husky, and they pretty much set the bar. Actually it wasn't till I made out with
@OneBigGrumpyRat
that I learned that some humans can kiss as good as dogs. Until then I'd though humans just sucked at kissing.
Hey trans and other non-cis zoo folk: we’re preparing to focus on trans experiences and issues on the next podcast episode and need your input, so please hit up the ZooTT crew if you would so we can do it right :3
Pass the word to trans zoos off twitter too please!
Sometimes a light burns so fiercely that when it finally goes out it the darkness seems total. But the light, however bright, wasn't showing you its own brilliance. It was showing you the world around you in a way you hadn't seen yourself. Remember the path it illuminated.
I'm so good at blocking trolls after 2 years on this site/app that I don't even see their crap a lot of the time. I just peripherally see certain properties of their pfp and hit the 'elipsis->block this user' combo and never even know what they said.
The reality is that a lot of zoos find loving support from their parents (who, btw, are often not overly interested in their children’s sex lives regardless) as well as other family and friends when they come out.
Okay look, the point I'm making here is that people like
@wryote
do not know, do not understand, do not have to face the challenges being, do not know and understand the reality of being a zoophile. They do not know *shit* about it.