Talk:Lay Off the Furries, OK?

Is this really relevant to this category? It's a run of the mill rant against anti-furries by one of Xydexx's friends. I don't believe the author is well known in any circles (other than the Pagan community, which has never much entangled itself with the furries). It's in a LiveJournal, one article of a million identical to it, with very little regular readership.. I suppose we could load this category with similar articles and obvious arguments, this doesn't stand out, but over all I don't feel this is very relevant. Please, let me know if someone feels otherwise. ~ Downspin


 * Eh, I think it's relavent because it's from someone who is outside the fandom. Judging by the number of comments on that post, he does seem to have significant readship.  I'm not sure what you mean by "run of the mill rant", as I don't recall there being too many others.  If you want to write articles about the others, though, feel free!  --Douglas Muth 20:12, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I believe that The Infamous Brad got a large number of replies, originally, because his LJ post was linked around quite a lot at the time. I'm not sure if the person in question is really even "one of Xydexx's friends", as much as someone Xydexx and a lot of other furries cited. I do agree that he doesn't seem to be well-known in Furry Fandom itself. If the link to the article is kept on the wiki, I might suggest that it be moved to one of the primary articles about the fandom as a sample of opinions. --


 * Xydexx lists him as a friend, maybe he didn't before Brad's rant, I don't know.. judging by the number of comments on that post some furry definitely linked to him - the first replies are furries, six pages of largely furry comments saying 'thank you' and Xydexx starting a debate every time someone disagrees with Brad or had a conflicting experience at a convention. There arent many comments by non-furries - look at the second page, there is one root comment by a non-fur.. eeeh.  From that I wonder if more than a few outside the fandom read it at all.  And I guess its special just because its from someone who isn't deep in furry, but all the arguments are obvious.. furries really aren't hurting anyone, obviously.. I think all of my friends have written this same argument, I know I have, but I suppose as furs we aren't that special.  I suppose what I want to say is, this is too obscure, too close to the fandom, and too cliche to stand in a category about actual coverage, with Deviant Desires, Penny Arcade, and Something Awful.  Thank you.  ~ Downspin