No, what I'm saying is at the beginning of the last decade, we wouldn't have people calling the cops on a guy who says he had sex with his dog on a furry forum, which happened in 2009. In 2001, this person probably wouldn't have even gotten a reprimand.
At the beginning of the decade, we had external criticism (PoE, SA, et al) plus internal criticism (the Burned Furs). Of course, though both groups set the ground work, the real change happened when the Vanity Fair article, the CSI episode and the MTV documentary hit; basically, what the first two groups had been been complaining about was confirmed as the "mainstream" perception of the fandom, and then change was (sadly, rather reluctantly) started.
No, what I'm saying is at the beginning of the last decade, we wouldn't have people calling the cops on a guy who says he had sex with his dog on a furry forum, which happened in 2009. In 2001, this person probably wouldn't have even gotten a reprimand.
At the beginning of the decade, we had external criticism (PoE, SA, et al) plus internal criticism (the Burned Furs). Of course, though both groups set the ground work, the real change happened when the Vanity Fair article, the CSI episode and the MTV documentary hit; basically, what the first two groups had been been complaining about was confirmed as the "mainstream" perception of the fandom, and then change was (sadly, rather reluctantly) started.