This is nothing new. It is the same argument that's been going on in your fandom for fifteen years or more. Nervous furries were debating in hushed tones "what to do about THOSE people, those crazy people" since 1995.
You start up a subculture about cross-species fiction, role playing, and characterization, then act confused and scared when people expressing some of humanity's most primordial psychological triggers show up.
Perhaps it was a shock to suburbanites whose reality tunnel ended at the local church of nailed-to-a-tree-man.
Christ (with irony). You could learn more about what makes half of furries tick by reading a Scott McCloud book on fucking comic books than from a decade+ of whinging over THOSE LOONY NUTS WHO THINK THAR ANIMALS.
This is nothing new. It is the same argument that's been going on in your fandom for fifteen years or more. Nervous furries were debating in hushed tones "what to do about THOSE people, those crazy people" since 1995.
You start up a subculture about cross-species fiction, role playing, and characterization, then act confused and scared when people expressing some of humanity's most primordial psychological triggers show up.
Perhaps it was a shock to suburbanites whose reality tunnel ended at the local church of nailed-to-a-tree-man.
Christ (with irony). You could learn more about what makes half of furries tick by reading a Scott McCloud book on fucking comic books than from a decade+ of whinging over THOSE LOONY NUTS WHO THINK THAR ANIMALS.