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LOLZ CUB DRAMA!
19 years ago
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Okay, not LOLZ, because it's not actually funny, but in the interest of not wanting to repeat my opinion every time it comes up, I'm consolidating my thoughts on this issue.
I consider myself a pretty tolerant person. I try not to be judgemental, and for the most part, I have no real problem with fantasies and thoughts, as long as they -stay- fantasies and thoughts. A person is defined by what they -do-. I think about jamming a sword through my boss's eye sometimes, that doesn't make me a murderer, and fapping to cub art doesn't make someone a child molester. So I don't care if someone likes cub art. I won't hold -that- against them.
And I also feel that there are grey areas involved. For example, Sonic and Tiny Toons are big subfandoms in furrydom, and they tend to look youngish, so are they "cub art"? And where does one draw the line? We're not all American here, not every country has the same line drawn as to what is and isn't legal. (Japan is 14, Aussie is 16, IIRC, some countries are 18...) Who's standard are we held to? These are meaningful questions, that deserve responses from the governing establishment of this site.
However, I'm not interested in "cub art", particularly to the extreme that it goes to on this site. And I object to the way some people defend it, particularly people that try to defend it by suggesting that if it's banned, FA will start down a "slippery slope" that will lead to the abolition of all porn on the site. That's bunk. It's BS. Nor is banning cub art coing to turn FA into a "ghost town", since I suspect more artists would leave if it wasn't banned then if it is. If you're using these arguments, I would strongly suggest you reevaluate your debate skills, because your argument is only as good as it's weakest point.
Personally, I can take or leave cub art. I worry about mods makeing overzealous assumptions about what does or doesn't qualify (for example, I tend to like flat chested adult women, and I've had them mistaken for "Loli" before, so that seems chancy) but if banning it keeps around some of the fantastic artists I've come to enjoy the works of, then I won't miss it.
I consider myself a pretty tolerant person. I try not to be judgemental, and for the most part, I have no real problem with fantasies and thoughts, as long as they -stay- fantasies and thoughts. A person is defined by what they -do-. I think about jamming a sword through my boss's eye sometimes, that doesn't make me a murderer, and fapping to cub art doesn't make someone a child molester. So I don't care if someone likes cub art. I won't hold -that- against them.
And I also feel that there are grey areas involved. For example, Sonic and Tiny Toons are big subfandoms in furrydom, and they tend to look youngish, so are they "cub art"? And where does one draw the line? We're not all American here, not every country has the same line drawn as to what is and isn't legal. (Japan is 14, Aussie is 16, IIRC, some countries are 18...) Who's standard are we held to? These are meaningful questions, that deserve responses from the governing establishment of this site.
However, I'm not interested in "cub art", particularly to the extreme that it goes to on this site. And I object to the way some people defend it, particularly people that try to defend it by suggesting that if it's banned, FA will start down a "slippery slope" that will lead to the abolition of all porn on the site. That's bunk. It's BS. Nor is banning cub art coing to turn FA into a "ghost town", since I suspect more artists would leave if it wasn't banned then if it is. If you're using these arguments, I would strongly suggest you reevaluate your debate skills, because your argument is only as good as it's weakest point.
Personally, I can take or leave cub art. I worry about mods makeing overzealous assumptions about what does or doesn't qualify (for example, I tend to like flat chested adult women, and I've had them mistaken for "Loli" before, so that seems chancy) but if banning it keeps around some of the fantastic artists I've come to enjoy the works of, then I won't miss it.
