I find little to disagree about in what you said. Furry fandom is sort of like what Stan Lee said about comic books in general. They are for the young.
The problem I see with furry fandom as say opposed to sci fi aliens fandom is that it has a stumbling block attached to it that discourages the older peer group from accepting it. Intelligent people that look like animals are considered to be animals. You are expected to not have the same emotional and sexual feelings for animals that you have for humans. So aliens that look enough like humans to pass are accepted.Rocket Racoon isn't accepted because he looks too much like an animal.
As people mature with age their peers start giving them the eye if they are known like aliens that look too much like animals.They can't cross the line to accepting that something that looks like an animal can be treated as not being an animal.
Fortunately for me I don't care. I keep my mouth shut about my interest in the furry fandom until some jackass starts putting it down. Then I let him know in no uncertain terms that we who like it are mostly just ordinary people who expect to be treated with respect. Here's a thought. What if earth made contact with a galaxy-wide civilized government and almost all of them looked more like animals than humans? Think about it. Humans think that people look like humans and people who don't look like humans look like animals or monsters. What are the odds that evolution is just going to happen to make all of the intelligent beings in the entire galaxy look like humans and avoid making them look otherwise? In other words, what if humanity discovers that real aliens don't look like humans? People change when reality takes away the option not to. So attitudes about furry fandom can change over-night.
I have a theory about what most aliens will look like. Checkout the animal kingdom. What percentage of land animals lacks significant body fur or alternatively scales, bony armor or feathers? Is there any special reason in evolution why humans absolutely had to evolve without fur? My guess is that any intelligent aliens that we meet will be covered with significant fur, feathers, scales or bony armor; and that intelligent beings with bare skin like humans will be rare. People who have bare skin 'need' to wear clothes. People with thick body-fur have a good reason not to wear clothes. When a ship load of ambassadors from the galaxy government walks off the ship jaws will drop. I'll gladly reincarnate as many times as I have to to see it. :)
Edward Fox
Received on Fri Jun 23 2017 - 09:01:07 CDT