This is exactly why furries CANNOT talk about furries with conservative parents!! As much as I love my family, I'd never ever tell them about my interest in the fandom.
The issue is not concervative parents, the issue is about people who think that art and imagination doesn't play any role in our lives, or contribute anything to our culture anymore.
*engage sarcasm field*
Because art doesn't matter in life. There's nothing valuable in sparking imagination in people, don't you know?
We have things like computers and tablets and phones to get things done.
It's not like engineers need art to design those things, or imagination, because they think in technical things. They don't need any ideas to inspire them, and certainly not pictures of animals, whether they walk on two or four legs. How can encouraging dreams and imagination possibly help them think of new stuff for them to give us items we now use everyday to do our own work?
*sarcasm field disengage*
this might be harsh but.. do you havea Billy club, knocking some screws that are loose back in to place might be needed, Her center for identifying objects in the hippocampus got loose.
I'm going to send her a bill for the hundred brain cells of mine that used to be functioning quite well until they all perished, trying to make sense of her statement. I demand reparations.
Because art doesn't matter in life. There's nothing valuable in sparking imagination in people, don't you know?
We have things like computers and tablets and phones to get things done.
It's not like engineers need art to design those things, or imagination, because they think in technical things. They don't need any ideas to inspire them, and certainly not pictures of animals, whether they walk on two or four legs. How can encouraging dreams and imagination possibly help them think of new stuff for them to give us items we now use everyday to do our own work?
*sarcasm field disengage*
No offense to Nanaki.
don't expect it to work though, because parents.