Kalamos said:
Since I have no set stance about gays, furries, and gay furries, I'll wait for new people to post facts.
It still can't find why that pic - or furries as a whole - are funny or despicable.
Truth is, I don't care enough.
Well, the funny or despicable aspect wouldn't come from people like us, per se. Somehow, along the great history of the internet, furries managed to recieve a lot of exposure. This, however, was done by your typical "vanilla", or basically your "normal" web poster. As you know, norms don't get along with fetishists. There was a lot(or as is my understanding) of sites crossed with eachother, so your typical norm could browse at their leisure. What they found were pictures of anthropomorphic animals and cartoon characters in a number of situations.
However, through this search, they also found the fetish aspect. Sites with message boards where the posters would have cyber sex by typing barking and howling. This is how they had sex. They also dressed up in animal costumes and met in person. There were graphic pics of bestiality and even animal abuse on the truly extreme and twisted sites.
With that said, you have to understand, that when you average normal poster goes back to the harmless sites and sees sombody who draws a picture of felix the cat eating dinner with bugs bunny(mostly done to showcase his/her artistic abilities), the norm starts to remember the other sites they saw and like all norms, decides to lump them in with the truly freaky sites. This got the ball rolling.
Things became worse when the militant(and by far, the most dysfunctional) furries began to "fight back". Though, I don't want to air the whole history of the great norm/furry internet war on here, I can say that when your fetishes main spokes persons literally refuse to aknowlege that they are not actually animals and are in fact people(though the norms couldn't convince them otherwise) you can begin to appreciate how things eventually turned out.
Unfortunately, throughout this maelstrom, the furry radicals took a new route...That of persicution. They literally developed a persicution complex. They began to liken themselves to oppressed peoples around the world throughout it's history. They have used every symbol under the sun that equates with oppression to push this agenda in a thinly veiled attempt to silence their detractors. Ironically, I've never seen one of these drawings with an S.P.C.A. symbol on it. LOL.
Nonetheless, the norms(and rightfully so) didn't buy it. This REALLY began to fan the flames. Unfortunately, this put a huge pinch on the conservative furries as now, they too began recieving hate mail and other such problems from ignorant norms who refused to see the distinct differences.
That's all I've got the patience to type. Maybe I'll add more later.
I hope this answers at least some of your questions, KALAMOS.
