Does this count?

Definitely gatekeeping and pretty silly. You can be a whiskey lover who drinks whiskey. You can love your car and drive it until it breaks down. You can love your home and still sell it when it would benefit you to do so. Human beings use the word “love” all the time for emotional attachments that are on no way equivalent to the love they feel for each other. When some people say they are animal lovers they mean they love animals like they love people, but I don’t think that’s at all what everyone means. Most people see animals as less than people (to the point that calling groups of humans “animals” is usually seen as super fucked ho and bigoted) and their love for animals is similar to their love for other objects they don’t see as people, like cars (which like animals are usually valued for some combination of how appealing they look and how functionally useful they are).

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