I’m happy to open our second weekly discussion topic:

This week we’re going to cover a phenomenon that’s been around in the fandom forever but which has resurfaced these last few years in the form of typically younger furs (13-21), often called “puriteens”.

This new manifestation of reformists tend to be very vocal in their opposition of certain NSFW traits in furry characters such as anatomically correct genitalia (knots, sheaths, etc) as well as feral yiff / feral NSFW artwork.

Typically active on twitter, but progressively also on other platforms, people holding these beliefs are controversial due to their tendency of conflating and accusing people who enjoy this type of NSFW depicts of animal molestation.

I’m trying to be mostly neutral in this description, so please accept my apologies if the vocabulary is a bit too formal. Anyways, here’s a few key questions:

  • How should the furry fandom react? Embrace it? Reject it? And if so, how to deal with the risk of being “called out”?

  • Is their point valid but are they simply to loud and aggressive?

  • Or are their methods correct and it’s time that the fandom received a wake-up call?

Please feel free to share any opinions that you have. As always this thread will stay up for at least a week and will then be locked. So make sure to voice your opinion in time!

Also, by leaving a comment you can, if you want, in the same comment propose a new topic for next week’s discussion!

Note: this topic is not marked as NSFW as it is educational, thus please don’t be too explicit in your wording or use spoilers to hide any potential explicit text or images that you might want to use.

Edit: This went a bit out of hand, but it’s very very late here and I might not be around until later tomorrow so I’m locking this thread and have removed any comments that went down a tangent while I figure things out. Tomorrow (technically today) I’ll try to reply to any DMs that you have sent and will try to see if we can reopen the topic and how.

  • purringfox@yiffit.netEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Never heard of them.

    Firstly, let’s say I’m not fan of religions at all. In my opinion they cause more harm then good. Here again, a religious group tries to force their beliefs onto other people.

    We are talking about fictional works here. No real living entity gets hurt. It is just a product of the mind. Following this, it is only paternalism. Please, we don’t need a thought police.

    It reminds me of the “killer games” discussion we had some years ago everywhere in media. People forget that there is a huge gap between what we do virtually and what do do in real life.

    Finally I have to add, people that actually do unnecessary harm to real animals in any way deserve the worst punishment and I do not count them as a part of this fandom.

    So to answer the questions:

    How should the furry fandom react?

    Ignore them. Ignoring is always the best option (in a online setting).

    Is their point valid but are they simply to loud and aggressive?

    Loud and aggressive.

    Or are their methods correct and it’s time that the fandom received a wake-up call?

    Nope.