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Kumoricon 2014 Con Report
The Convention: Kumoricon 2014
The Place : Vancouver Washington Hilton and Red Lion
The Dates: Aug 29 – September 1.
Kumoricon is a Anime Convention in Portland and Vancouver WA area. This was my six year attending. Because it was a for day con, it was all plushies on deck; all my big plushies had a day as my companions.
Furry and Anime –Approved
It a go! were going to have a furry panel at Kumoricon.
The panel is meet and greet and part open discussion of Furry and Anime
I am still looking for co panelist, one fursuiter for a demonstration and ides.
For example I am been brain storming :
(What is furry (or not))
What makes a Cat Girl Fury or not
Is Pokémon furry or not (Meowth yes Pikachu not so certain)
Other furry references
Holo Spice and Wolf
Wolf’s Rain
Outlaw Star
Blair from Soul Eater
Kyubey Madoka Magica (He creeps me out)
Polar Bear Café
Damekko Dōbutsu (Useless Animals)
What is furry fandom (note to me keep it short)
Differences and similarity
Busting myths
Crossover to other fandoms
Other resource and groups in furry,
Fumy history in Anime
(What is considered the first full length Anime is furry. The bad news is it was a WWII Japanese propaganda film.
You get the idea what I am looking for
So any other suggestions?
Sexism in the Furry Fandom? Not by the Numbers
There been a debate between Patch and JM at [adjective] [species] over women in the Furry fandom and sexism. On the onset, let me say sexual harassment for those the opposite sex and straight orientation (i.e. the slur breeders) is a problem in the fandom in some corners. This is not where I want to look at. I am more focused n that the supposed sexism in the fandom is a sweeping generalization on faulty or insufficient data. [adjective] [species] would point to a high ratio between men and women in the fandom as indicter of sexism. I want to look at fandoms on the whole including Science Fiction, Anime (in the United States), Furry, and Brony (My Little Pony) believe that large ratio of males to females in the Furry fandom number s has more to do with human nature, the differences between men and women rather than sexism. Guys like to gather with men in mass what women in small company with other women or men like football and women like shopping.
So This Is What Gremuzzle Looks Like
I have joined Live Journal in 2007 partly out of spat with Furtopia over treatment of conservatives and Christians. A spat long since reconciled. Recently my friend’s feeds became inactive as Furs ether left LJ for other social media outlets or left the fandom all together. As a result I close my live journal account.
This brings the issue about being an old timer in the fandom. I was in the fandom for now seven years. I watch furs come and go. The question is how to deal staying in when friends move on. This becomes more poignant when I get older. I see still being a fur when I am in my eighties, Lord willing. I will bring this issue up in the Outku over 25 panel do each year, a panel for older anime fans.
So how do one deal with growing older in the fandom when your friends leave?