Because every now and then a young furry, who is probably not even of legal age yet, comes into the fandom and immediately kinkshames everything that is not vanilla, I want to put this out there.
(Didn't happen to me, but to a friend recently.)

Remember: Reagan and his administration refused to even acknowledge the HIV/AIDS crisis until 1985, *years* after HIV made it to America, and only after a friend of his died from it (making it personal).
His inaction lead to at least 80,000 direct deaths, mostly among the LGBT+ community.

we've had close to a decade now of full-court backlash of the right wing against queers. we're all accused of being groomers, pedos, predators, monsters, constantly. every trans woman is called a rapist. every teacher is called a groomer. REAL predators love this, and are free to act with impunity