To me the important point is reality and truth. You shouldn't be lying about the fandom. There are good people and bad people involved. There is clean art and yiff art of every possible fetish. But, specifically with the case of the fandom, some furs seem to think it is some highly exclusive group rather than a reflection of the population as a whole. While in some points we know participation is biased to groups, like young white males, that doesn't mean that it's not reflective of the sort of bad in the world.
Obviously that Penn state incident was handled badly but you're not going to find the rest of the American football (because remember this is an international audience and football and American football are two completely different things) saying it should have been hidden to protect American football's reputation. Furs complain about the media tarnishing their reputation by making them all about murrsuits but they do it themselves by not being willing to admit that there are different people in the fandom and that they don't have to take responsibility for every single person.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
To me the important point is reality and truth. You shouldn't be lying about the fandom. There are good people and bad people involved. There is clean art and yiff art of every possible fetish. But, specifically with the case of the fandom, some furs seem to think it is some highly exclusive group rather than a reflection of the population as a whole. While in some points we know participation is biased to groups, like young white males, that doesn't mean that it's not reflective of the sort of bad in the world.
Obviously that Penn state incident was handled badly but you're not going to find the rest of the American football (because remember this is an international audience and football and American football are two completely different things) saying it should have been hidden to protect American football's reputation. Furs complain about the media tarnishing their reputation by making them all about murrsuits but they do it themselves by not being willing to admit that there are different people in the fandom and that they don't have to take responsibility for every single person.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~