I would say there is one, I'm kind of one stuck in the middle when it comes to these two generations. Basically the media started with "They're all about sex", and we were like "NO". Then they were like, "They're all about costuming as animals." and many were like "meh, alright at least it's better than the exclusively sexual angle."
And it is. Yes, it means we get an influx of people who care about fursuiting and see suiting as tied more with being a furry then it actually is in reality.
That turning point was sometime in late June and early July of 2009. The reason I remember it was I ran across a Rachael Maddow thing about Rocky Mountain Furcon and it was (comparatively) a positive segment and I showed it to my roommate, and older fur. He complained because they put too much emphasis on fursuiting.
Once again, where there's a split I remain somewhere in the middle. I do have plans to acquire a suit, but ONLY a partial for many practical reasons:
1) Partials are cheaper
2) Partials are easier to put on
3) Partials are not as effected by changes in body like fulls are. (Like if you get fatter or thinner)
4) Partials allow for more freedom to change costume via how one dresses.
5) Not as hot
However, that doesn't mean I'm not going to be doing other things as well, such as writing.
I would say there is one, I'm kind of one stuck in the middle when it comes to these two generations. Basically the media started with "They're all about sex", and we were like "NO". Then they were like, "They're all about costuming as animals." and many were like "meh, alright at least it's better than the exclusively sexual angle."
And it is. Yes, it means we get an influx of people who care about fursuiting and see suiting as tied more with being a furry then it actually is in reality.
That turning point was sometime in late June and early July of 2009. The reason I remember it was I ran across a Rachael Maddow thing about Rocky Mountain Furcon and it was (comparatively) a positive segment and I showed it to my roommate, and older fur. He complained because they put too much emphasis on fursuiting.
Once again, where there's a split I remain somewhere in the middle. I do have plans to acquire a suit, but ONLY a partial for many practical reasons:
1) Partials are cheaper
2) Partials are easier to put on
3) Partials are not as effected by changes in body like fulls are. (Like if you get fatter or thinner)
4) Partials allow for more freedom to change costume via how one dresses.
5) Not as hot
However, that doesn't mean I'm not going to be doing other things as well, such as writing.