We get what op means, but still, if beings don't like a term for themself/themselves, leave them be.
We personally don't use therian or otherkin for ourselves, the terms just don't click for us. Like, they technically fit, but we don't like to use them and would prefer others not to use them for us.
We much prefer alterhuman, nonhuman, or just being called our "types/kins."
We don't think we are "better" than those who use those terms. We just don't like the terms for us.
None of this is an "attack" or anything on op, just a little reminder that beings not liking specific terms for themself/themselves doesn't mean that they think that term is "less than".
- Shay đž
putting this on main actually;
it annoys me to death when folks say stuff like âiâm not a therian, im a [xyz animal]â
because hey thatâs what a therian is!
to say you donât identify as a therian because you just ARE that animal is to say that therians ARENâT really the animal they claim to be. which is so wrong. to say you donât like the term therian because itâs âtoo humanâ is so insensitive.
therians are not necessarily human! someone calling themself a therian in no way makes them human! equating therians with humans is weird!
stop treating us like we are human, stop trying to separate âreally being an animalâ from being a therian. they are the same thing. youâre not superior or different to us because you âreally are that animalâ. we all are.