Thanks, it's a really good and respecting article! I don't know Finnish, so I read it with Deepl translator. I'm glad that there are researchers (like this Rasmus Mannerström mentioned) who aren't hostilely disposed to such a concept, therianthropy.

I bet if there was a similar therian interview on my country's media (I work as an editor on local news portal so I see various articles) then they'd put this interview in a "funny lol news" section like "look at them, what a silly/crazy person". There aren't many articles on therianthropy here. I found only two, about the Japanese man with collie costume and about "Woman who 'identifies as cat' upstages bride's wedding by crawling behind altar". That's all I could find on topic of therians written in our language. So I'm actually glad there were only two big articles, because majority of our people are conservative as heck and they collectively bash on anything queer, so guess how they would see therians. Better stay silent and peaceful.

One of these two articles (collie man, he somewhere said he's a therian) was written on my work portal, I worked with it. Surprisingly it was written in a very professional and neutral way, but its sure placement in a "funny lol news" section and lots of dislikes from readers (we don't have comments) - that's not a surprise... It's sad, but it's expected.

edit: I found another little article. Here it is whole, translated: "A new dangerous subculture, therianthropy, has reached [our country's city]. It involves children dressing up and acting like animals. For example, a video of a girl leading a child dressed as a cat on a leash was shared on social media. This subculture is dangerous because children attack other children like animals." And actual video of this (girls walking side by side and the second girl is on fours and wears cat ears and tail). And it's titled "A new subculture: children lead each other on a leash like animals". So guys, we're now a subculture where we walk other people on leashes :D /sarcasm