My May 17th Furry Pride Day...

[Vinny Raccoon]

i feel your pain lordfeline but open war is not always the answer! nor doing nothing about it a good idea
we need to take it to a diffrent approach, and here how!
for anybody who is furry we start a silence protest what we do is we pick a month to do this. the only way we can communicate is by writing in our notebook (except when we talk to our friends in private or at da bank teller) when people hear our silences they will be frustrated then non furrys will follow up on the toils we went through.
this should happen only in groups of 6 or higher only in fursuits or fur accessories only then we should get there attention. unless if anyone got any better ideas

[BusterBuizel]

We need to start a Furry Tolerance Movement. I vote in! For one month we shall. Get those notebooks ready! Rise Up Fellow Furs!

[armagre]

i think everyone here is missing what the principle was meaning

do the silence..just dont go decking out in furry gear..that simple

thank you!
i didnt post this to start a revolution, just as something fun for furs to do to make sort of a point

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We need to start a Furry Tolerance Movement. I vote in! For one month we shall. Get those notebooks ready! Rise Up Fellow Furs!
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what would be the point in this?
why should other people have tolerance for us? Some people hardly have tolerance for hardly anyone.

i wish people would understand the problems there lifestyles give them and learn that it will never change, and if it does, it probably wasn't because we made people get over it.

now lets get back to the point of this entire message
"i am furry and i am proud" thats it! its not about anything else

[Kaprika]

yeah, there is no need for a "revolution" here now..we should just be happy being us, why do we need to seek the approval of everyone else???

i love being a furry...yeah it sucks that people sometimes give us crud for it..but so??? thats what being a minority is, it MEANS your different.
so embrace it, theres no need to shove our way of life down peoples throats..just as we dont want them to.

they dont have to accept it..
they dont have to LIKE it

just be you..and thats all

[Kaprika]

im so mad.....i spent my whole day being silent (what little i had)
my mate was spending the entire time trying to trick me into talking and i didnt fall for it but it was pissing me off after a while

so i decide to sleep the day away cause i was so stressed already and i didnt need his crap...so i wake up at  8:30pm and not even 20 minutes before he is gonna go to bed he tricks me into talking..

IM SO FURIOUS WITH HIS STUPID (insert long innapropriate rant here)
this was a important day for me and he makes it into a stupid game...

[Midnight Madness]

Good lord, nobody else responded? I was up and gone for the past week or so.

That's not cool, such incessant prodding is bound to piss anyone off. I hope you let him know how much the day meant for you Kaprika; and how much it upset you he'd make it into a game. In the end, the school Principal put his irrational foot down and threatened to suspend Buster and all the furries merely for being furries. I've had it confirmed via recon. Had my friend Trevor go in and ask him why exactly he said what he did, but not like an interview; more like a "what the hell man?" kind of way.

Sadder than that, everyone else backed or bowed down the Monday they went to talk to him; including Buster. I'm still trying to rally at least one of them to talk to the Principal with me; but the way it's looking, I'll have to go in on my own and consult him on this. I know not everyone will accept furries, but I at least should fight for equality and let him know that it is impeding on Freedom of Speech.

[BusterBuizel]

I didn't even know what came over me that day, normally I'd stand up for what I believe in be the principle got to me. It was a difficult crossroad and I made the wrong choice... Fear just took hold of me.

[Vinny Raccoon]

itz never went so well with me ither...

i'd chicken'ed out ok!   GOD!!!

[Midnight Madness]

End result with my talk to the Principal was much different than I expected. Trevor did ask all the right questions, but gave me all the wrong answers. In the end, I established, several times, that all he's trying to do is keep the Fur-Haters (of the few that reside in our school) from getting all pissed and irrational. He has to do it to protect students. It seems a viable enough reason, if you ask me. He said, just like Kaprika did earlier on, that Furry Pride day would be allowed entirely, but no dressing up. And he made it wholly clear that there would be no dressing up whatsoever; as apparently our district dress code prohibits it. And it's not just limited to furs, it goes for any kind of costume. Halloween costume, wearing Priest's robes (from any religion), or anything of similar nature. He even suggested an alternative to gear; just shirts that say "Furry" or "I'm a Furry" or whatever the hell. He also said that we could start a club for furries at the school.

He never said once there was anything wrong with the fandom. He said "It's not normal." That's true; however what is normal? No wonder the argument was filled with holes, the explanations I got were incoherent. I'm an extremely analytical person when conversing, and I found the logic to protect as well as no costumes perfectly reasonable. I admit, it would be nice to have at least the tails allowed, but again; other groups are not allowed similar freedoms. So equality does exist in such a regard; not complaining with the outcome and will try to help set up a Furry Club at the school! Furry Pride Day is not prohibited, nor even inhibited; it will just have to go down differently in the future.

[^Geist^]

Heres my own opinion on pride anything.

All it does is reinforce the concept of separation.
I personally feel its just a matter of allowing society to become  co-existant with any thoughts/ideas.
Now I am In no way saying furry pride day is bad so don't get the wrong idea.
 As with the distraction thing I can kinda it could get distracting. Even if I had a fursuit I would never trust it to be at my Highschool =\

[ArcticSkyWolf]

wait, your school has a furry day???

wow, i wish my school had one, i might make it or something...