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The Few, The Proud, The Odd
Feb. 7th, 2003 10:45 amFound this while looking up some furry info:
Furry fan to web columnist: I'm offended by how you bid for cheap laughs by portraying furries as sexual deviants in your previous column. Some of us just suit up and role-play for the experience of being a fur!
Web columnist to furry fan: Chill out. The Trekkies learned to accept being made fun of years ago, you'll have to also. Besides, wearing a fursuit for the purposes of kinky sex makes more sense to me than wearing one for any other reason...
Why am I referring to this? It's beginning to seem to me that openly, honestly weird folk seem to get a lot more back-handed respect than the timidly weird, the "weird only on weekends", the "weird as a form of social protest" types. When one's cheerfully, openly different, yet basically functional in society, they'll still be made fun of, but there'll be an undertone of sneaking admiration for someone brave enough to take a different path and make it work.
On the other hand, the posers, the people who only act different 'cause they're not getting enough attention, the ones who need to constantly defend their differences to people who really don't care, seem to draw more honest scorn.
Hmmm...
Furry fan to web columnist: I'm offended by how you bid for cheap laughs by portraying furries as sexual deviants in your previous column. Some of us just suit up and role-play for the experience of being a fur!
Web columnist to furry fan: Chill out. The Trekkies learned to accept being made fun of years ago, you'll have to also. Besides, wearing a fursuit for the purposes of kinky sex makes more sense to me than wearing one for any other reason...
Why am I referring to this? It's beginning to seem to me that openly, honestly weird folk seem to get a lot more back-handed respect than the timidly weird, the "weird only on weekends", the "weird as a form of social protest" types. When one's cheerfully, openly different, yet basically functional in society, they'll still be made fun of, but there'll be an undertone of sneaking admiration for someone brave enough to take a different path and make it work.
On the other hand, the posers, the people who only act different 'cause they're not getting enough attention, the ones who need to constantly defend their differences to people who really don't care, seem to draw more honest scorn.
Hmmm...
