Dumb law propositions are a dime a dozen. And like cancer cells: we have them cropping up all the time, much more often than we notice, and usually they're just squashed without notice by the immune cells of common sense and/or disinterest.

Still, I'd prefer our little Fandom to just stay off mainstream's radar beyond what weirdos already know what Furries are and poke at it.

Then, there's less chance for the misled appeasers in the Fandom to attempt, yet again, to mainstream being a Furry by cleansing it of anything deemed reprehensible, to appease and make it "safe" for normies who aren't interested in the Fandom beyond being a punching bag the first place.

Yeah, you are very right and think it's already happening.

In the last 5-7 years, furries are coming out of the hidden corners of the shady parts of the internet.
In person conventions are close to reaching 20k visitors and the smaller one are growing every year by a two digit percentage.

We already have seen the expected problems of many newer people wanting to normalize furries and therefore marginalize part of our community like it hasn't been the case 10 years ago. More people, more opinions and chances for extreme positions even.

Well, am surely hoping this law does not come into effect, but with the more recent atmosphere in the US and with the Democrats doing.. no clue what they are doing.. it could happen q_q

>w>... They have brought these laws up multiple times with misinformation and lies. The difference is, now the governor, who's a well known bigot, is now in on it for that state. Not just some idiot lawmaker that'll have their law/bill shut down before it hits any floor.

Being a Governor with an agenda doesn't guarantee the lawmakers (who still have to vote on and ratify bills) will pass anything.
Same bureaucratic slog as in the Federal government. Governors have their pet projects fail all the time.

-w-... Didn't say it would pass, just the difference is that the governor is involved. There's been many of these anti-furry things before. But the backing is growing. That is a problem. A charismatic/influential face can spread misinformation and lies to make something happen, but it does not always work.

As the Fandom's made itself a more vocal safe harbor for queer interests and expressions over the years it's no shock that numbers are ballooning for conventions, aye.

As for the bill? It could. But it also highly couldn't. All depends on what pork's packed on it and whose skids are being greased. Things one doesn't know until more info's released.

-w-... As I said before... This isn't just an attack on furries, but also an attack on neurodivergent children and children with trauma who may use these noises as coping mechanisms. They want everyone to be 'normal' and 'ideal wage slaves', and having individuality, weirdness, or otherwise, goes against their controlling of the populace.

The thing that pisses me off is, there are stupid furries who are 'praising' this shit, not knowing where this is going... It is targeting queer and weird individuals. It has nothing to do with 'children'. Just like they wanted to get 'trans kids' ousted in schools, now they have trans people being erased from history... Furries no doubt would be on that list too, since they are queer too... And unfortunately very much in the mainstream eye these days.

Yeah, that is very clear.

Could be that furry will mean being a rebel of society in the future. It's not how we semi-oldies had it...

I feel like this is going to have the same effect as the prohibition. Probably not to the same effect, but the same general idea. People are naturally curious, and restricting people like this can cause problems sometimes.

That was my thought too.
Wonder what the equivalent of "people started destilling their furniture" would be xD

I actually live in texas and I don't really know how to even approach this after finding out about it. One hand I want to laugh myself to death over it while on the other I am so confused why it's even happening. I mean isn't most kids in school these days already suffering from short attention spans, that's what I heard from teachers anyway.

Another great idea from the party of "Peace and Freedom".
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On behalf of all Americans, I would like to apologize for our idiocy at the moment

considering anti trans bills manage to pass quite often, it seems there is a change bills like this could pass, though i don't think its gonna have the opposite effect since there isn't an addictive element like with cigarettes

Genuinely the funniest thing I've ever seen.
I used to do all that stuff in high school and I got massively bullied for it. I still do that stuff 15 years later and I still get leered at in public, but mostly I get compliments on my swag.
Normies are silly guys. Always afraid of what they don't understand.

We cannot win :( xD

Tbh some of the shit that goes down in the fandom, I support discouraging minors from participating. I don't see how legislating that is going to help though, since teens are rebellious and this just feels like incentive...

well some things that are forbidden aren't cool

God I hate this state so much. "Children appear to be expressing themselves! Quick! Make it illegal!"

There's also a law there involving possibly getting jailed over manga such as Goblin Slayer, like wtf?

Not big surprise.

Fun fact: Texas' motto is 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S.H.I.P."...

...So on the bright side: unless it stands for "Frequently Rejecting Immigrants, Ethnic Neighbours, Democratic Shittalks and Human-rights In Policy" - they've got all the room to grow into it now! XD

F.U.R.R.I.E.S.? Honestly, I would rename it to T.H.E.R.I.A.N.S. because those kind of people subconsciously think that they're an animal.

Also, The whole litter box thing is a HOAX.