pov you are caught staring too long on a neighbor gardening and might need to be taught a lesson (just think he's neat)

...again depends how it looks. It's not like people don't wear regular tight clothes in public where you can see a bulge outline or something.

I mean...I have to see the footage to really know. I posted an image of a typical pony play gear, something that often pops up in relation to public fetish display, and I think those are okay. And about something being visible under tight clothing...

...and neurotic and self-policing. I believe on purpose. I have a post about algorithms on my page that's related. This hampers the goals of furthering acceptance and educating people more, rebuking their misconceptions.

...is not the answer, at least in my opinion. The biggest problem is the lack of organization. And this is really a general problem, not just with these specific communities. With queer community in general it feels like modern internet has made it increasingly atomized...

...that often makes them ignore history of queer comminities, queer expression and create problems where they didn't really exist before. There is still work to be done in my opinion, again I believe there needs to be more open discussion and drawing of the lines, but hiding it all behind doors...

...much, if any, harm was done by it to the community. Most of it is at Pride Parades of course, but children are in fact allowed on those. Current younger generation, even when queer themselves, and particularly in anglosphere, has seemed to have caught a strange anti-sex attitude...

But a "standard" pony-play gear like on the image, or a latex costume that's not revealing and a pup hood...I think it's within acceptable limits. Again, in European countries, particularly Germany, public fetish expression existed for a while now, like decades, and it doesn't seem like...

...where in one photo she is standing with two little girls and her gear is translucent and you can...well you can deduce what you can see. That was way too much. Although in other videos people seemed more curious about her than repulused or something. But still, that's a red line crossed.

There are certain lines. Like recently I saw an Asian (possibly Chinese?) account where a woman was walking around in public, even in a supermarket, in fetish gear, and some of the photos on the account definitely seemed way too explicit...

As I said it depends. Gay community survived people dressing in excessive leather as an expression of their identity, even tho that is also something that is of fetishistic nature. Moralizing about your own community excessively never does any good.

...and becomes public knowledge against their will is a common occurence. And there are definitely people who take public geart overboard, but I believe if there was an open, organized discussion on the topic people could decide the "red lines" on when something does become explicitly sexual.

And I can also understand the fear that comes from it, as you've said you're afraid of people percieving the community as freaks, but...they'll do it anyway, no matter how much people try to sanitize. Someone being made fun of something they did in private after that something "leaks"...

And I don't see why liking latex clothing for example should be percieved differently. I think you're coming from the perspective of having latex fetish stuff being exclusively or almost exclusively sexual, but that is not the experience of everyone, maybe not even the experience of most.

...more causally, as an aesthetic expression of attractivness rather than a purely sexual one.

Like...it's not like within normal, non-queer sexuality there are no such things. Certain revealing outfits, with a large cleavage or something like fishnets, they're openly aknowledged as something that can be sexual, erotic but also allowed in public as in that context they're percieved...

Well you can disagree...but I just intuitively see that there are both sexual and non-sexual modes. If it's only sexual for you that's fine, but to many latex can be sexual in private but they also might like it from a causal aesthetic perspective.

Which can be caused by many things. Innate leaning towards conservative values, or poor job of advocacy groups on educating people about this specific type of expression, or both, or something else.

Not sure where you're from, but from what I observed (not directly, as I don't live there, so this takeaway may be faulty) certain European countries, at least within big cities, have a more relaxed attitude towards such expression. While in the anglosphere it's still an issue.

Being "out" about a fetish, again, when within certain lines and being followed by education about this casual element of it, beyond just he sexual element, can lead to more acceptance of these things in general, similarly to how being out orientation wise led to increase in acceptance.

Because to many people fetish is an integral part of their identity / orientation it can cause problems if they try to hide it only for people to accidentally discover it and be shocked.

Because of this I don't think it's wrong to go out in public in gear, at least if the gear doesn't have explicitly sexual elements to it, like a dildo sticking out or it exposing private parts.

I don't know how it is for you, but for many people fetish is more than just the sex part of it, it is in general an innate part of their "attraction". There's causal non-sexual mode to things as well as sexual mode when in approporiate places.

Letter to Memphis YouTube video by Pixies - Topic

youtu.be/8-0chE9P5UM

That's a common feeling, that's what people mean by the phrase "butterflies in the stomach" or "butterflies inside".

Wtf are the anti-TF Reddit threads? Obv people can in general be weirded out about fetish stuff, but that sounds like they specifically had a beef with TF stuff, that's just odd.

One of the things I often see on tl (Twitter specifically) is mfs blaming all of their insecurities on googling porn when they were teens and similar shit like that. It's nauseating stupidity.

I hate mfs that blame "the algorithm" for various pliths as if it's an abstract random thing. That shit is obviously tailored by the people running socials to promote the dumbest most inflammatory crap.

anti-TF reddit threads???

I wouldn't be surprised if Goose didn't publicly state that the show is "meant for adults" you'd have people saying it's "diddy blud show" or whatever cause it mentions sex once.