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M&S/furries/school kids

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JoxerGoesToStuttgart · 03/08/2019 18:29

These ads creep me out on their own (a hedgehog/seal in school uniform just standing there staring? Confused how does that sell school uniform?) but the resemblance to the “furry” movement is just too much. I’m possibly just over exposed to the grimness of the whole furry underworld and see anything depicting kids as furry animals as sinister.

Am I alone or is this weird?

www.facebook.com/MarksandSpencer/posts/10156986494533612/

This one is a hedgehog. There is one with a seal. Not sure if there are others.

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JoxerGoesToStuttgart · 04/08/2019 10:50

Could it be that they are trying to disassociate certain items of clothing, like skirts, from certain gender stereotypes like long hair?

They could use a girl with short hair?

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CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 04/08/2019 08:11

who are interested in anthropomorphic animals

Having sex with, sexualising and becomes anthropomorphic animals.
Which would be absolutely fine if they kept it to their own subculture, with adults, but the fact it it spreads to a lot of children's cartoons and gets kids involved in fetish culture.

LassOfFyvie · 04/08/2019 02:41

Considering each person is unique it might be to help show people what the clothes look like with out wanting to make people think if I want to wear that set of clothing I need to look like them. Therefore trying to lower the idea of certain types of clothing being associated with a certain group of individuals

Sorry, but that makes no sense. This is an advert for school uniforms. Nobody thinks a about wearing school , in the in the sense of making a conscious choice to do so. They wear it because they have to.

The "certain group of individuals" who are associated with this "certain type of clothing" are school children. It's sort of the point- you are a school child - you wear school uniform.

6942a · 04/08/2019 00:40

Mabye, I can see where your coming from and it makes sense. Considering each person is unique it might be to help show people what the clothes look like with out wanting to make people think if I want to wear that set of clothing I need to look like them. Therefore trying to lower the idea of certain types of clothing being associated with a certain group of individuals.

PancakeAndKeith · 04/08/2019 00:29

Could it be that they are trying to disassociate certain items of clothing, like skirts, from certain gender stereotypes like long hair?

6942a · 04/08/2019 00:26

Furrys are a subculture of people who are interested in anthropomorphic animals. Alot of the people in the community do alot of art and drawing of how they see them self as an anthropomorphic animal. Alot of the artist are quite talented drawers too.

SRYneg · 04/08/2019 00:25

Also disgusted at Judy Dench wtaf

SRYneg · 04/08/2019 00:24

Yes, I found Rupert very creepy as a child (probably older than you).

I shall never forget begging to go to a film featuring Beatrix Potter characters as a child, thinking it was a cartoon. I was literally horrified and disgusted to find it was actual human actors in costumes. It was my worst ever cinema trip.

Summersunshine2 · 04/08/2019 00:19

Shall I be the first to ask: what are Furries? Genuinely no idea.

6942a · 03/08/2019 23:53

Theres nothing wrong with furrys at all, I do agree that their really creepy though, it's more related to the cats movie coming out, and at the end of the day if it was furrys what's wrong with it? It's just a werid bit of photoshop work and I dont understand how its meant to attract consumers.

yulet · 03/08/2019 22:31

YES! I thought this the other day, it completely creeped me out.

There is also no way at all that their advertising department doesn't know about furries. No way at all, not if you're active on the internet or have googled things like animal costumes. They know exactly what it looks like but I'll bet they're young and woke enough to think it's hilarious too, and to want it to be edgy. Like hiding penis jokes in cartoons, that sort of thing.

Goosefoot · 03/08/2019 22:26

Totally weird.
I found Rupert creepy too when I read them to my kids as an adult. Something about the animal heads with human hands.

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JoxerGoesToStuttgart · 03/08/2019 21:43

Yes I think I’m seeing a link that isn’t there (I do blame MN for that Grin) but I still insist that these particular animals/ads are creepy as hell. If they spoke or interacted they mightn’t be so bad! But just staring! They’re weird.

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Goosefoot · 03/08/2019 21:29

Yeah, I agree with endofdays. There are lots of kids shows and books with animal people, furries aren't the obvious link for most. More like Rupert.

hazeyjane · 03/08/2019 21:27

Dd2 loves them. She thinks animals should get all the modelling jobs from intnow on....
Tbh furries had not crossed my mind until this thread.

70sWitch · 03/08/2019 21:22

M&S get it wrong by a bazillion miles yet again.
Who does their marketing?

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Endofthedays · 03/08/2019 21:12

Well this is escalating!

I really only mean it’s not a connection most people would make.

Culture is full of human animal hybrids, and it almost never has anything to do with furries. Most people don’t even know what a furry is.

iVampire · 03/08/2019 20:58

I think the average M&S customer (both parent and DC) would think Sylvanian Families and not furries

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JoxerGoesToStuttgart · 03/08/2019 20:39

Over exposed, yes, I’ve seen quite a lot of furry stuff due to MN feminism threads. That’s nothing at all like spending lots of time thinking about them.

Is there something more going on with you I’m not following? is this a sensitive issue?

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Endofthedays · 03/08/2019 20:33

I mean as you say, in your OP, over exposed to them.

Most people don’t have furries on their radar.

It just looks inspired by folk art to me.

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JoxerGoesToStuttgart · 03/08/2019 20:28

because you’ve spent loads of time thinking about furries!

Umm, what? Confused what makes you think that? I don’t generally spend much time at all thinking about furries. (Because they creep me out) I’m just aware of them. Knowing about something doesn’t mean you spend loads of time thinking about it.

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Endofthedays · 03/08/2019 20:22

It’s only too close to furries for comfort for you because you’ve spent loads of time thinking about furries!

Saucery · 03/08/2019 20:15

Right at the top of the escalator in my local branch. Happily cruising along looking for trainer socks and there they were. Like something out of Scarfolk.

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JoxerGoesToStuttgart · 03/08/2019 20:11

There are masks? Shock do M&S think it’s halloween? Confused

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MadamBatty · 03/08/2019 19:38

I saw the ad yesterday... thank you for articulating why I was creeped our