Okay -- perhaps I was being a little too subversive, but I still maintain that mocking the issue is the best way to go about it. My actual opinion goes something as follows — that masked guy does kindof have a point, right? Furries aren't mainstream, and we shouldn't force our kinks on other people, 'cuz it's discourteous, and the minority of furries who does hasn't come to realize it. That said, most furries, not to mention macrofurries, are extremely private, and would hardly talk to a stranger if asked about their kinks, much less just casually walk over and start off on a tangent about how skunks are the sexiest things ever conceived of.
About the videos — hatespeech is hatespeech. Let them get it out of their system, but don't encourage them by saying anything to them, especially if your feelings are already getting hurt, because secondary to venting some steam, a response is what they are seeking. As for being subversive, if you feel you must respond, make like sick-little-wolfboy, and admit to your sins, because that is effective in stealing the opposition's ground; if you've already used their ammo by beating yourself up with it, they can't do much else other than agree with you, or instead state the main-line furry agenda, neither of which they can do, because they're convinced you're the enemy, so they just get confused, and you can turn it into a win.
The way that I feel/choose to act on the issue is to 1: not get involved, and 2: enjoy what's happening from the sidelines. Seriously, if someone will actually go to such lengths as to declare a YouTube -war on furrydom and its subscribers, and reply to endless comments on their videos from both furries and plain-old sympathizers, doesn't that truly mean that they really just love us? What other emotion would explain such unending devotion to bringing us publicity? (all publicity is good publicity, BTW)
Being twisted as I am, I live off of strife. Even when standing for nothing inparticular, being a victim grants one the regalia of a martyr, and that's a good feeling; it's power.
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