With only six days left until Trump’s inauguration, the resistance is getting a little desperate. Impeachment is nowhere in sight, so those seeking to stand up to Trump must find alternatives.
The good folks at Slate have finally given their readers a way to stick it to the orange-faced menace: gay immigrant Muslim furry erotica.
Slate urges you to pick up a copy of The Time He Desires, the story of Aziz, a Sudanese immigrant cheetah in a failing heterosexual marriage who explores his sexuality with a gay fox.
The logic here is a little tortured, but I’ll try to explain. Trump doesn’t like immigrants and Muslims, so if he sees you reading a book about them…. he won’t like that either? Actually I have no idea how this is standing up to Trump.
And the furry angle doesn’t make sense either. Furries are anthropomorphic animals with a heavily implied sexual connotation. Trump has made no public statement in support or against furries, and there was no alleged furry-related sexual activity in BuzzFeed’s Russian intelligence dossier.
In the Slate article the author of the furry erotica, Kyell Gold, explains that he wrote the book in response to the growing wave of Islamophobia.
“One of the themes of my stories, from very early on, has been conflict between people who realize they’re gay and a society that has problems with that sexuality,” Gold said. “I know that Islam is also not necessarily tolerant towards homosexuality.”
The ironic part about pushing this book to fight Islamophobia or Trump is that the many Muslims would probably balk at the idea of their religion being associated with gay furries, especially in a story written by a non-Muslim.
But if you can’t make the Woman’s March, reading furry erotica is apparently the next best show of resistance.