Why do people hate on my fur coat

[CleanCityBird]

I’ve a fur coat that I inherited from my Grandmother. It’s a full length mink coat & I absolutely love it. I even wear it in summer.
As we’ve been having terrible weather I’ve been using it, and for the first time people are hating on me for wearing fur. They throw insults that I’m an animal killer, cruel, support the fur industry- on and on it goes.
I think it’s just jealousy. Others would love to own such a statement piece.
Are they all wrong and I’m right, I have a right to wear what I want, I didn’t kill anything & the coat comes from another era. Actually I’m saving it from landfill.

I am not in the slightest jealous.
I judge people who buy fur, this would be seen as some as hypocritical as I am not a vegan 🙄
I wouldn't wear fur either, I think it looks awful and it never gets cold enough to need it here, landfill is probably the right place for it

You're right. It's jealousy

They're all jellus hatahs.

YABU to wear it in summer.
Ive not worn fur in a long long time but never had a comment. I guess people are led often by emotion and not intelligence. YANBU.

Calm down Snoop Dog.

Is this a joke? Of course people can be offended.
like using ivory or anything else

DC did astronomy club for a few years at school. I seriously considered getting one off Gumtree.

Offended? By somebody wearing fur from a by-gone era?
Burning it doesn’t ‘undo’ anything.

Wear it if you want. Just don’t be disingenuous about wondering why on earth people shout at you about it.

Don't be silly.

People have a ridiculous response to fur, most of which was farmed just like other animals- and nowadays mostly vintage. It's because it's fluffy, so must have come from nice fluffy animals.

Most of the same people will wear leather and eat meat, but everyone does that right, so that's ok.

Reminds me of a friend who cried when I told her the lamb she ate was the same as the lambs who she saw in the fields. She thought they 'must be different'.

"Statement piece"?

How pretentious.

My sister and I inherited one. Neither of us wanted it.

You’re wondering why people think it’s cruel? Wow. I wouldn’t be jealous of an ugly old coat

You can wear what you want, but people can think what they want and have an opinion. Insults are not ok, but I wouldn’t be surprised to get disapproving looks if I wore one.

How on earth is it jealousy? Seriously

It's just got those connotations so if you wear it, you wear the full social meaning even if the animal/animals involved died generations ago.

It's a bit like saying what do you do with anything that belongs to a former era and tastes have changed - old china or paintings with little black servant children on etc. I wouldn't throw it out but I wouldn't display ostentatiously either.

😂😂😂😂

They don't hate on your coat, they hate it.

Yeah right.

People are weirdos over fur. Loads of people wear parajumpers and Canada goose coats. All have fur trims.

I can't stand the feel of real fur I can tell it a mile off. A lot of the faux fur trim items are real fur now because it is cheaper that synthetic fur

Just a thread to goad and get reaction...

You can wear what you want but I wouldn't want to wear what you've described and I'm not at all jealous.

I wouldn’t judge you for wearing a fur coat that was inherited, already dead and you couldn’t do much about in terms of bettering the ethics around it.

I do judge you for using the phrase ‘hate on’ though.

I don't know, I kind of feel like if you are walking around in summer decked out in a fur coat you are looking for comment. Some will be good, some will be bad.

As a side note it's been warm but raining a lot where I am this summer, do you smell like wet dog when you get wet wearing a fur coat?

Definitely not a goady opening post at all (!!!)

I wouldn't be/am not jealous of the coat, I wouldn't even touch it never mind wear it or want to own it.