I don't completely grasp the relationship yet between someone weird saying "they're furry" on television, and thinking furries are generally like that. It's like if someone said on TV "I'm obsessively into manga" or "I love using the gym" or saying they have any other interest while they proceed to do weird shit. I wouldn't assume every person who's into manga or uses a gym or whatever is like that... Just if only for the fact that most people normally have bills to pay, gotta have some kind of job, regular schedule, responsibilities or family...
If most people actually do crazy stuff, which they don't really, they'd do it in their spare time or in their privacy. And questioning what people should or shouldn't do in their private time (unless criminal) to me IS much more TABOO. It's like you're questioning what I do in my 'time out'. Fuck you man, life's hard enough as it is.
Remember when tabletop role-playing was a thing of the devil, something you had to stay away from. What if media nowadays talked about role-playing geeks doing evil weird gathering. Everyone knows tabletop role-players are a bunch of geeks who like to sit on a table for a couple of hours as they talk to each other "fighting" imaginary monsters and the like. Not much more different from furry. A bunch of passionate geeks who like cutesy cartoons. Whatever.
I don't completely grasp the relationship yet between someone weird saying "they're furry" on television, and thinking furries are generally like that. It's like if someone said on TV "I'm obsessively into manga" or "I love using the gym" or saying they have any other interest while they proceed to do weird shit. I wouldn't assume every person who's into manga or uses a gym or whatever is like that... Just if only for the fact that most people normally have bills to pay, gotta have some kind of job, regular schedule, responsibilities or family...
If most people actually do crazy stuff, which they don't really, they'd do it in their spare time or in their privacy. And questioning what people should or shouldn't do in their private time (unless criminal) to me IS much more TABOO. It's like you're questioning what I do in my 'time out'. Fuck you man, life's hard enough as it is.
Remember when tabletop role-playing was a thing of the devil, something you had to stay away from. What if media nowadays talked about role-playing geeks doing evil weird gathering. Everyone knows tabletop role-players are a bunch of geeks who like to sit on a table for a couple of hours as they talk to each other "fighting" imaginary monsters and the like. Not much more different from furry. A bunch of passionate geeks who like cutesy cartoons. Whatever.