yiffy is taken by furry, so idk if co-opting it is going to bring this meaning to it.
Well, kinda...
Furry is dominated by human-identifying people who are sexually attracted to other human-identifying people.
They consider furry "their hobby," and they treat yiff with derision and scorn. To them, the world is filled with human people only, and anything that transgresses sexual species boundaries is somehow "bad." They don't understand that
not all people are human... and, not all people are sexually interested in humans... they don't get this, or care!
The reason why it is important to reclaim (not co-opt) the term "yiffy" is because of all the hatred from so-called "furries" against non-human identifying people, and those of us who are
exclusively attracted to non-humans, be they non-human people or non-human animals.
And, when you get right down to it, those kind of "furries" don't want anything to do with the word "yiffy" anyway. They want to brush it under a rug and pretend it doesn't exist. So, who exactly am I supposedly taking this term from? People who want to be free to discriminate and persecute those of us who actually ARE yiffy? Hm...
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I see one other person is excited to be yiffy! Welcome to the future, sir/madam!
--- ADDENDUM ---
I want you to read and consider this article:
Drag Isn’t Like Blackface. But That Doesn’t Mean It’s Always Kind to Women.
In it, a woman person compared Drag Queens to acting in blackface. Obviously, this caused a stir, but the woman in question still felt that Drag Queens, in a way, "mock" femininity and womanhood. Her feelings are valid, but clearly this was a faux-pax.
The article ends by saying this:
Without chilling drag’s wonderful tradition of free expression, we can take this moment to ask if our drag personae and performances truly celebrate feminine gender expressions, or if they lazily mock them. ... I don’t think that listening to women’s concerns will hurt us. In fact, I think it may make our drag even richer."
So, basically, yes, the "blackface" comparison was extreme and insensitive, yet we can still try to understand this woman's feelings. Women, and Drag Queens, will be better off if the Drag Queen community tries to understand a bit more what they are representing when they put on drag and do a performance.
And, transgender people also have concerns about Drag Queens, as you can see in this article:
Viewers slam India Willoughby after she compares drag to blackface.
India Willoughby, a transgender person, was on a TV show when a Drag Queen came on the set. She got upset and started crying, while running away saying basically that Drag Queens "mock" transgender people. She proceeded to compare the whole Drag Queen culture to blackface.
Drag Queens need to understand that they are not only dealing with womanhood, but also femininity itself. And, just like Drag Queens should be more considerate of women's feelings, they should also be more considerate of transgender women's feelings. Simply being aware that some transgender people feel the way they do when a Drag Queen does a performance would benefit all parties involved. After all, how would you feel if you were a biological male who had to put on women's clothes every day to feel normal and accepted, and then some Drag Queen comes along, does the same thing, says it's "performance art," and acts like a goofball on TV? Wouldn't you feel a little misrepresented, a bit?
And, I can definitely relate to how India feels, because often times, I feel that my non-human identity and yiffy sexual orientation are "lazily mocked" by furries who don't understand how zoosexuals, therians, otherkin, and non-human people in general feel when they put their fursuit on and act like a goofball.
A person in a fursuit is still a person. I get offended sometimes when furries put their fursuits on and act unintelligent or buffoonish, because to me, that's my identity they are playing with. Why is my species, or the species I'm attracted to, so interesting that it has to be your "hobby?"
I don't get why a human-identifying person would want to put a fursuit on in the first place, but I get it. They are like the Drag Queens of the yiffy world. They identify as human, are sexually attracted to humans... But they don't understand that, for some of us non-human people out there, fursuiting is a core part of our identity. They also have no regard for the sexual orientation of those who aren't, like them, attracted to human people.
So, I'm just pointing this out so that other yiffy people out there can see the boundaries of the ideological battleground. Gaining acceptance for zoosexuality requires that we also understand and explain species identity as well. After all, the Stonewall Riots were started by transgender people! How far do you think LGBT would have gotten if it weren't for the fact that transgender people were trying to explain their gender identities? Same goes for us... understanding and explaining species identity is pivotal if we ever wish to see any change.