Eh, as an furry artist myself I wouldn't say it's for the young. Well, I guess I shouldn't say that. Some might see the fans being mostly young sorts, though I have seen those like in their 70s that were fans. Surprised me when I saw them, but I didn't mind. Artists of the community, though, naturally are not young as you don't come up with all that good of ideas when you're young. Too many of the copyright violations in the community are done by those that are young as well, because they're ignorant on the fact that copying and ripping off art, comics, and/or characters they like can be considered theft.
I personally like to think the community is for all sorts, young or old, as long as they're willing not to judge others over petty things. Because once you judge another over something so juvenile, then you'll be met with backlash. But until then the community is a welcoming place, if not for having some bad eggs among them as with any community.
-Claw MacKain, lone half-god lion bounty hunter =^_^=
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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 interes t 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 significa nt 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 Wed Jun 28 2017 - 05:58:57 CDT