Okay I wanna point out another sucky fact of existence that you are all going to have to deal with.

Now a lot of furs are whining that they are being picked on and discriminated against for reasons THEY believe are unfair. Well I got news for you THERE IS A PRETTY DARN GOOD REASON when social outcasts are casting YOU out, think about it.

You're a baby fur and you are bitching and moaning because everyone hates you. Well if you weren't sitting in your own shit and pimping yourself out as JAILBAIT then maybe you'd be better liked! I know a bunch of ageplayers and guess what the ones people don't mind being around are potty trained and non-sexual in their behavior. You want to be welcome in society then you HAVE to be socially acceptable.

Now I know there are a lot of NON-socially acceptable fetishes in the world, god knows I learn a new one every day. Most people that are into this are DISCRETE about it when around people that aren't into it. Look the word up, discrete, this does not mean going up to strangers and saying, “I like to rub poo all over my body, do you like poo too?” This also means not doing it in a public places or places where people not interested can tell what you are doing. If you are in a hotel room DON'T do anything that can be overheard or smelled outside your room people! This includes normal hetro-sex, nobody wants to hear you screaming how great it is.

Next batch of furs, people that smell like the floor in the men's locker at the YMCA! No I understand that some people just have natural strong body odor, that I can deal with, but there is a difference between showering everyday and having a strong body odor and marinating yourself in your own bodily excretions for weeks at a time. If you are too LAZY to bath at least once a day and put on clean clothes then you deserve to be made fun of and picked on.

Okay, now about the DRAMA, we all really need to stop caring about the piddly crap. You don't need to take sides in every argument that comes down the pipe. You don't need to belittle and put down other people. And not everything said to you is a personal attack!

I know that furry are very open about the strange things they are into, I see two reasons behind this: First we've always been a small group of friends. Second the whole world thinks we are screwing the dog so who cares what they think. Problem is this has changed. I've heard estimates of 20 to 30 thousand furs world wide, probably more if everyone stopped hiding. If we want to be taken seriously then we are going to have clean up our act in public.

One of my friends in RL who didn't know I was a furry was telling me about an encounter he had with a furry at a local comic shop. He was telling me you could smell him from 10 feet away. He'd stretched a 1X tee shirt of 6X worth of lard. And about how he was being very loud with another fur over some very gross stuff that shouldn't have been discussed in public, IE children were present. My friend kept going on about how everything he'd heard about furries was true.

Needless to say he was utterly stunned when I told him I was a furry and I was surprised he didn't know because of the masses of plushies and anthro art I draw. His reply was, “You are not anything like furries, you can't be one.”

It is pretty bad when someone has helped you make clothes for your animal puppets, seen most of your drawn art work, and has helped you pick out fur for a fursuit and they don't believe you are a furry because of how badly a minority of us behave.

Our fandom has become a society all it's own and a society mean social rules. If you want to be a part of the society, learn and follow the rules. If you don't then you have no right to whine when society wants nothing to do with you.