{"id":29,"date":"2009-04-24T00:16:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T07:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bear-candc.com\/actonhe\/?p=29"},"modified":"2009-04-24T00:16:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T07:16:06","slug":"of-furries-and-furverts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Of Furries and Furverts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Recently I found a post on 2 <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>the Ranting Gryphon\u2019s Live Journal<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>about Michael Cogliantry soon to be released book Furverts, the secret life of furries. I do agree with some of his points that we have nobody else to blame but out selves, but there is more to the subject at hand: how furry fandom reflects a post Christian\/Modern era <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Fist let me deal with Mr. Michael Cogliantr. Furverts is nothing more that repackaging and recycling his earlier work Furry Kama Sutra. The videos have been around since 2006 and he displayed his work in 2008. I guess the art show circuit is not bringing in the bucks so he recycles his trash. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Now back to the point being how furry fandom\u2019s desire to be inclusive is a fine example of an observation I see, furry fandom is a case of art initiating reality The fury culture is a microcosm of a post Christian or post modern philosophy especially when it comes to morality. In a post modem culture, morality is a personal choice including how one publicly displays one\u2019s choice; furthermore, there are no absolutes. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>For example it doesn\u2019t take long in a discussion on cleaning up furry fandom until somebody will post \u201cno, do not force your morality on me\u201d line. Another example was the hostility and criticism over Megaplex attempt to impose a PG13 standard. It also doesn\u2019t help that the vast majority of furries were born after 1980 and are the generation raised and taught on a steady diet of relativism. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">The problem I have with this openness and the criticism of any moral standard in the fandom is it will eventually drive furry fandom to obscurity. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>More troubling is how non furry related, sexual fetishes like BDSM and balloon fetish are finding avenues in furry fandom. The tragedy is a small minority will deprive the majority of the richness of furry fandom as society and business will not lend support, good press, or even convention space. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">If the fandom is to survive it will not be in the <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>obscure niche of sexual fetishes but opening up to mainstream public, this include bringing in families and older adults. I would love to see furry become like science fiction where I see fans from young children to senior citizens. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I found a post on 2 \u00a0the Ranting Gryphon\u2019s Live Journal\u00a0 \u00a0about Michael Cogliantry soon to be released book Furverts, the secret life of furries. I do agree with some of his points that we have nobody else to blame but out selves, but there is more to the subject at hand: how furry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[212,55],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furry","tag-furry","tag-michael-cogliantr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}