Hey Kids. As you know, its important to try to get along with with as many people as you can. To be curteous and to be polite. But I tell ya as you get older, you'll run eventually run into extremes of these unwritten laws. It comes to a point where the sake of politeness and not-hurting-anyone's feeling becomes more of a whitewashed mechanism used to control people as a core purpose while getting away with crap under the table. For me it got to a point where I didn't want to enter my own house after work... and I really hated my job back then. Its actually more natural for me to keep my mouth shut and back down hoping it would go away only to get worse and worse with more important things falling apart as I got older and this wasn't for things involving just me but loved ones as well. Wasn't till a couple years ago till I realized that aggression and anger has natural part in life and that trying to completely blot it out only creates a more hostile environment than should be. The conflict with being a furry is that everyone assumes you're to be happy and perky and more open than the hippiest hippie at all times but I say unto you don't let people use your involvement as a furry to contain you. At your core you still have things close to the core of you and your "sanctuary" (that one place you can go to rest no matter how bad the day has gotten) and sometimes the best thing to do is to do is swallow your fear of emotional outcomes and being condemned and get in their face. Its essential in some situations to let the whole deal explode before it becomes an even bigger explosion down the road and heck, you might just save the bridge because of it.

You gotta shake up some apple carts to get things moving again despite how others feel. Heck many people both furry and non-furry even passively try to you control in the sake of politeness. In other words, they're so used to it, its practically subconscious. If they can't handle you being frank, too bad. They can mute you or whatever or they can get off their duff and deal with it for once. Having said that I will proudly warn everyone and if you feel the same, let everyone know the same.

I am a furry.
I will get in your face.
That is a promise
Deal with it.
K Thx