Fandom ought to equal tolerance

[mikailborg]

Even though vt_komainu has already posted a link to this guy's entry, I want to quote this paragraph from Lay Off the Furries, OK?

"Fursuiters aren't hurting anyone. [...] They're role playing. I remember when more SF fans did this, and I miss it terribly. You know, maybe the fursuiters wouldn't be so remarkable if there were more space pirates, jedis, elves, ninjas, wizards, androids, zombies, Vulcans, barbarians, Klingons, starship pilots, and bounty hunters running around, like we used to have in the old days. When I first attended my first science fiction convention over 20 years ago, it was explained to us newcomers that we didn't have to create a fannish persona to attend. But we did have to do so if we were going to ever be accepted as one of the cool kids. Then fannish persona and consistent hall costuming declined precipitously, and now only the fursuiters and the anime cosplayers still do it. Well you know what? That doesn't mean that they're sick and weird. It means that the rest of us suck."

Hear, hear!

Comments

[pathia.livejournal.com]

If you haven't read it yet here's the con report of Michel Gagne. Who seemed to have been quite wary of attending a Furry con at first.

http://www.gagneint.com/Final%20site/misc/conventions/Anthrocon/Anthrocon.htm

Stan Sakai also apparently enjoyed himself quite a bit, but sadly neither are making it next year because AC keeps falling really close to ComicCon. Oh well, maybe 2006 =)

(Oh and rainbowsaber and I happen to be in one of those pictures if you look close enough ^_-

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

Hee, I saw you in that pic from another link. But that's a nice article: "Hey, they're just friendly, regular folk... in fursuits!"

[jsciv.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, having read that link and looked at the pictures, those are some darn nice costumes. Where in the world do people get them? Do most people just make them, or is there some sort of niche fursuit industry?

[pathia.livejournal.com]

A little bit of all of the above. But from those pictures there, most of those were constructed by the person wearing it, or by another furry.

[pathia.livejournal.com]

There are some creepy folks at the con, but what con doesn't have them?

Heck, what street downtown doesn't have them?