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Has anyone noticed just how subversive it is to be a furry?
12 years ago
We weren't getting enough out of corporate funny animal cartoons. So we made our own damn subculture.
We're not content to sit around and have our culture fed to us by big names. We're not all about buying identical copies of the same damn comic or print. We create our own identities, characters, and stories. When we do spend money, it's often to produce, not to consume. We commission art not to hide in a bookcase, but to share with the world. Every commission adds to the wealth of the community.
By and large we don't anoint celebrities. Our popular artists and entertainers are our friends, not our idols.
We're not afraid to love each other. We'll cuddle no problem, sometimes without even needing to know each other. In public, no less. We can spend a good portion of our convention time just turning off our brains and enjoying the raw, primal feeling of companionship with relative strangers. We never shake hands when we meet new people. It's always a hug.
We celebrate our sexuality; we're not ashamed of it. We don't think it's weird to be gay, bi, or straight; to be monogamous, open, or poly; to be reserved or to be a porn star. We know that sex is human, it's animal, it's human-animal.
We have no audience, because we're all the creators. We have no idols, because we're all on the same level. We have no inhibitions, because love is beautiful. We have no consumerism, because we're all producers.
Think about that. Furry is punk rock as fuck.
We're not content to sit around and have our culture fed to us by big names. We're not all about buying identical copies of the same damn comic or print. We create our own identities, characters, and stories. When we do spend money, it's often to produce, not to consume. We commission art not to hide in a bookcase, but to share with the world. Every commission adds to the wealth of the community.
By and large we don't anoint celebrities. Our popular artists and entertainers are our friends, not our idols.
We're not afraid to love each other. We'll cuddle no problem, sometimes without even needing to know each other. In public, no less. We can spend a good portion of our convention time just turning off our brains and enjoying the raw, primal feeling of companionship with relative strangers. We never shake hands when we meet new people. It's always a hug.
We celebrate our sexuality; we're not ashamed of it. We don't think it's weird to be gay, bi, or straight; to be monogamous, open, or poly; to be reserved or to be a porn star. We know that sex is human, it's animal, it's human-animal.
We have no audience, because we're all the creators. We have no idols, because we're all on the same level. We have no inhibitions, because love is beautiful. We have no consumerism, because we're all producers.
Think about that. Furry is punk rock as fuck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8X3ACToii0
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That's probably because I was in fursuit and had no fucking peripheral vision.
No. We're furries, not "Furry". We're a fandom, not an organized movement. We're a loosely-defined group of people all across the political spectrum who share one interest in common: anthropomorphic animals. That's all there is to it, and that's how it's supposed to be. We're not rebellious punk rockers making a political statement. We're fans of a fictional trope, and our laissez-faire approach to artistic expression is what sets us apart from everyone else. Our virtue is freedom, not subversion, and if you don't understand that, the only thing you're subverting is our community.