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I don't think people associate classic cartoons with furry fandom -- they're two separate things in their minds. And I think that is probably the fault of the majority of furries. In the early days, a lot of furries didn't like the term. They called themselves anthropomorphics fans, or fans of funny animals (in comics, cartoons, and animated features). There was no prejudice against them either. But two things happened. First, there wsa the b/w comics implosion. Many comics fans blamed furry comimcs for this, though to be accurate it was a glut of imitation Pre-teen Mutilated Sumo Hamsters that ended up lining cat boxes, not Critters or Shanda. That's why furry fandom rates under comics and manga -- they used furry fandom as a scapegoat for the collapse of the industry. The second thing was that from the original stance that sex was just on of many adult themes in anthro comics, the fandom only seemed to attract people interested only in sex. Role players joining Furry Muck accelerated the process, enlisting not only horny teenage wankers, but also disproportionate numbers of gay fans, fetishists of all kinds, and just plain geeks. Pretty soon the

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Curiously, I would think furry fandom would be somewhere in the middle, since classic cartoons were all about furs (i.e., Bugs Bunny). Have people's tastes in art crapped out to a point where in just a couple of decades Oscar winning rabbits have become targets for assholes? Focusing on WB, they were producing mysteries, and "furry" cartoons practically side by side.

I'm also a furry and an SF fan. I don't use my furry Avatar here because I don't need people shitting on me. I suppose a microcosm of what you've described would be a literary convention, such as Worldcon. I attended Chicon V, simply for the mystique of the Hugos. Most other literary cons I've attended were several Windycons. While no one openly bashed furries at these cons, you could tell the topic was decidedly cool as subject matter went. SciFi media (Star Trek) cons were much more open to furry concepts as I remember.

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People bash furries because they can. There's a food chain among fandoms. At the top is mystery fandom, traditionally a preserve of fat old men with large bank accounts, who think they're more literary than Science Fiction fans. Immediately under that is SF fandom, which is actually *is* as literary as mystery fandom, and even older in its roots, but generally its old fat men aren't as rich. Just under that is trditional fantasy, heroic fantasy and dark fantasy fan. Next, a big step down is comics and Trek fandom, which have elevated themselves over the years, but started as very adolescent groups. Under that you have various kinds of media fandoms. Near the bottom is manga and anime. (Miyazaki is usually considered an exception and respectable enough for regular aimation fans).

Anime and manga fans have nobody to shit on. So they shit on furries. Furries are the absolute bottom. To be noticed by anyone in a more prestigious fandom is to be ridiculed.

Curiously, I'm a furry. But I'm also an old time SF fan, and close enough to the top of the heap that I've been repeatedly nominated for a Hugo award as best fanartist, and will be Guest of Honour next year at the Montreal worldcon. I suppose it shows that prejudice isn't absolute. But I notice people don't talk about my connections to furry fandom too much.

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