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Some people find dogs threatening...

I personally don't, but I do find rooms for adults filled with play-doh, comfort blankets and rabid third wave feminists a bit threatening.

I think the article's author, with that very detailed description, intended precisely to stress the huge gap between both attitudes in conflict: the child's mentality of those defending the need of a safe space on the one hand and the grown-up mentality of those organizing the debate on the other.

> what is wrong with a real puppy?

Why do you demonize video technology so?

"Owning" a puppy is slavery.