Babel Con '82 TV ad -

[mbanu]

I'd imagine the easiest reference point would be furries -- their coolness level doesn't seem to have changed in 30 years. (^_^;)

[runesaint]

I'd imagine the easiest reference point would be furries -- their coolness level doesn't seem to have changed in 30 years. (^_^;)

Hmmm. I would say that I have seen more than one high school student regularly wearing animal ears and occasionally tails. So even furries have become more... not accepted. Less rejected?

[SteveH]

I'd imagine the easiest reference point would be furries -- their coolness level doesn't seem to have changed in 30 years. (^_^;)

Hmmm. I would say that I have seen more than one high school student regularly wearing animal ears and occasionally tails. So even furries have become more... not accepted. Less rejected?

mmm, might be some semantic confusion. I at least don't classify someone wearing ears to be a 'furry'. To me a furry is someone who is intensely obsessed with anthropomorphic cartoon art of a pornographic nature. It may bleed over into wanting to 'be' a character and wearing a full body fur suit for anonymous sexual encounters.

There has been some nice comic work involving anthropomorphic characters that was totally non-sexual (Saki's Usagi Yojimbo comes to mind), but the 'big titties cat girl' is far, far more common.

So it seems to me.

[davemerrill]

we're friends with a couple who have a tween daughter who thinks the anthropomorphic stuff is pretty cool; even has her own fursuit complete with wolf mask, and there *may* be photos of me with that mask on my head. What I don't know is if her interest in "furry" has anything to do with any "furry" properties or characters, or if it's just an interest in the genre as a whole. There may, in fact, be an entire set of people who just like wearing animal-ear headgear and clip-on tails as fashion items, without ever being aware of Shanda The Panda or Red Shetland or any of their ilk.