Year 8 student identifying as a CAT

[PonyPals]

AIBU to think that this world is becoming so screwed!
The stuff you read these days is truly horrifying.

www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/furries-australia-year-8-melbourne-private-school-girl-identifies-as-a-cat/news-story/04f31c482d0701cc1b42e047b5bcfce2

The school is happy to support this WTF

😂😂😂

Just out of curiosity, why do you still shop there if they are doing that? I walked out of a Tesco Express the other day because of this. I wouldnt mind if it was the usual price without the card, but it was blood extortionate without it. Who dreamed up this idea? Its bonkers.

I don't know what to make of identifying as a cat. Each to their own I guess. Do they clean themselves like a cat and walk around going "owwww, this is mine, this I mine" like Danny John Jules in Red Dwarf?

It's an inevitable consequence of the "identifying" culture and a society that enables it and normalises it.

Years ago, there was a programme about people who identify as cars and one of them described in detail how he made love with his (actual) car.

I thought then, as I think now, this "identifying" is a pile of crap.

I could identify as a dragon. Dragons don't exist, and I'm clearly not one, but for society to have got to the point to let me think this behaviour is ok, enable it, support me in it and protect my rights to be a dragon rather than work with me to help me come back from the fantasy world I'm living in is a very dangerous place to be in.

It's completely made up and has been doing the rounds in America for a few years. Statements like this make it easy to see it's not true

a source close the family has reportedly disclosed

@Chikapu
Yes last year here in Australia it was a school in Brisbane, now it's a school in Melbourne.
Slow news day.
It's made up.

This.

It's not an "inevitable consequence" of anything. It's bollocks designed to whip the gullible into a froth about trans people by saying "ooh, first it's men identifying as women, now this girl identifies as a cat! Where will it end? Slippery slope! Litter boxes in the toilet..."

Well George Galloway pretended to be one on Big Brother, so not the first time.

If you think kids will get bullied. Why is that your go to? Of all the issues. Let's face it. Most kids with extreme reactions to school (non verbal, unable to eat with peers etc) have BEEN bullied. Maybe this is about rejecting the "norm" culture that bullies generally are reinforcing.

My reaction to being bullied for my speech impediment was to cease speaking at all, which of course adults then called ridiculous. If you don't fit in society will punish you for it.

Does the school support this? Are there consequences for students who don't go along with this?

Just have a quick look at Twitter if you want to see a whole bunch of people who are invested in otherkin / furry. NSFW btw.

The issue here is that kids pick up on this stuff, start using Tik Tok, Discord, Twitter etc and see adults behaving like this and it all becomes valid behaviour for them.
I can’t use the word on here but it starts with g and ends with rooming.

Your questions don't make sense. I doubt the girls are in costume at school so nothing has to be supported.

YES

Well I’d like to identify as a pot plant doing fuck all day in day out but funnily my employer won’t entertain this and are trampling on my rights and being anti-pot plant. Maybe I should take them to a tribunal where all of their ‘ist’ will be on display?

I’ve had a student years ago who identified as a cat. It definitely happens. There’s also a student who walks around college with a massive tail.

For me, it's not a case of a "slippery slope", it just raises the philosophical question of if/why some "identities" might be more valid than others.

What a total bollocks article. It’s a jumbled mess, combining a totally unsubstantiated ‘story’ (someone somewhere told us there was maybe a girl at a school somewhere who does this) with some random unrelated stuff they googled about Furries.

Doesn’t stop people gleefully reacting to the headline though, does it? Some posters here should be embarrassed that they’ll fall for any old shite (and probably didn’t even look at the article, just saw the headline and went off on one).

There is another article which suggeste this is a hoax and the paper has fallen for it before.

There seems to be a lot of these in America which seem to be believed but nobody can actually pin down to it happening. People like to believe this sort of stuff.

I think it's tye University of Bristol who recognises feline gender. Why shouldn't they?
We have people identifying as the opposite sex or as disabled. If we accept any identity that is not routed in reality we should accept them all imo

I'd quite like to be cat 😸
Sounds like a lovely life, all that sleeping and doing whatever you darn well like.

What a total bollocks article. It’s a jumbled mess, combining a totally unsubstantiated ‘story’ (someone somewhere told us there was maybe a girl at a school somewhere who does this) with some random unrelated stuff they googled about Furries

Despite numerous posts stating this, people are still carrying on as if it's real. Almost as if it is being coordinated 🤔

Like the recent conspiracy theory threads, this is a study on how misinformation is spread and accepted.

Some posters here should be embarrassed that they’ll fall for any old shite
I agree, I feel extremely embarrassed for the OP for posting that article.

No, they don't. They accidentally linked to a satirical list of pronouns published by an external website not affiliated with Bristol university. That link has now been removed from the Bristol uni website.

Well it wouldnt be believable if some men didn't think they were women and almost worshipped for it.

So as a man can say the words "I am a woman" and be forever more treated almost exactly like a woman (minus the messy bits, inconvenient bits etc)

Add in furries, otherkin, the ones i dare not mention as this whole post will go pooof then it's totally believable that a girl somewhere in the world wants to be a cat.

I don't know why they are assumed to be autistic! It doesn't suggest that.