If this is your idea of calling for more literary criticism, you've got a funny way of showing it.
I could've made your argument for you a lot more simply:
The furry fandom needs literary criticism because... stuff that gets taken seriously has literary criticism, and you believe that if furry media is subjected to literary criticism, furry fandom will somehow also be taken seriously. You believe this in spite of bringing up media that is certainly not taken seriously, and thus does not prove your point; it may elevate the academic status of furry work, but it certainly will not make furry work any more palatable to the mainstream.
Literary criticism is distinct from what most people think of when you say the word criticism, in that literary criticism is more about analyzing a work and what meaning or intent the work has than it is about saying whether or not a piece was executed properly.
... and here's an example of literary criticism, which, unfortunately, is lacking.
Now, this could have been gone about another way: instead of trying to define what literary criticism is and insisting that more magically appears out of thin air, you could have started your own furry literary criticism journal and asked for submissions. (It's not like publishing a black-and-white zine is expensive these days!) This would allow you to nurture literary criticism of furry media until someone else pays attention. Alternatively, you could approach various liberal arts professors and try to figure out the fastest way to get high-profile criticism in a literary journal -- or at least find a student or two willing to do the legwork for you. If there's 100k furries browsing the internet, SURELY we can find one or two that're liberal arts majors who do this sort of thing.
Leading by example makes far more sense in this case than trying to educate the fandom at large on how to critique a work.
If this is your idea of calling for more literary criticism, you've got a funny way of showing it.
I could've made your argument for you a lot more simply:
Now, this could have been gone about another way: instead of trying to define what literary criticism is and insisting that more magically appears out of thin air, you could have started your own furry literary criticism journal and asked for submissions. (It's not like publishing a black-and-white zine is expensive these days!) This would allow you to nurture literary criticism of furry media until someone else pays attention. Alternatively, you could approach various liberal arts professors and try to figure out the fastest way to get high-profile criticism in a literary journal -- or at least find a student or two willing to do the legwork for you. If there's 100k furries browsing the internet, SURELY we can find one or two that're liberal arts majors who do this sort of thing.
Leading by example makes far more sense in this case than trying to educate the fandom at large on how to critique a work.