what if furry fandom was mainstream/widely accepted??

[Puncia]

So you do actually care what others think of it since you could actually care less than what you do now?
Sorry, but as a foreigner I never understood how something as literal as "could care less" managed to change its meaning while becoming a slang. I could actually care less about it, to put it like that.

Anyhow, I agree and hope that others do too about wearing a collar in public. A collar is so much more than a furry thing. It could symbolise a lot within the S&M culture, as well as just be a cool accessory without any meaning whatsoever. Where does the line go between a fashionable choker and an animal collar?

[kivabunny]

yes. lo, for deep inside of me there is a sliver,NAY!!!, a fragment, of mine self-awareness that doth care the least little bit.
(sorry we have been studying shakespere and the urge to talk in medieval tounge was killing me.)

[iKero-chu™]

It'd be awesome.
8)
 
Its a slow process but I do see progress within the past few years actually.

[Kite]

All the hipsters would leave.

[BusterBuizel]

For me if this were to happen then I'm out; for good. I'm a rebel of society and a nonconformist. Almost everything everyone else considers cool is what I consider uninteresting. For example: Everyone in my school has school spirit except me and a majority of my friends (I can actually sleep through noisy pep assemblies and have done it three times in my whole high school career  ), I find everyone into some type of sport except me, I have never been peer pressured into anything (except buying Halo 3 because my friends wanted me on), I hang out with four other furries/scalies on a regular basis and have almost been expelled for being one (On Furry Pride Day), and I DO NOT like Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. I am also not a Brony because that show isn't badass enough for my tastes.

Being a Furry is one trait of mine that made me, well, me... I'd drop out not because I'm a hipster and think that it's too mainstream; but because I lose a part of myself that I can never get back. I really hope that this doesn't become mainstream. A lot of my uniqueness comes from the whole furry lifestyle. I love to stand out of the crowd and to be the one who's not afraid to voice his own actions. I want to express myself like the few that came before me, not because I want to inspire others to do so, but as a mode of expression for a guy who is always oppressed everytime he comes home, has no one to trust in that lives with him, and is suffering from depression due to many external factors that have occurred in my lifetime. Everytime I get home from school I feel sad that nobody gets me. I want to be free! I want to stand out and find a sense of great belonging to a few who I can really trust. If given the choice of a thousand friends that can only be taken at face value or a choice of five lifelong friend that will stand by you in every single step of life then damnit, my choice is clear: Five Friends, one's who will truly care about you like they were your own family; a wolfpack; a flock; squadron; etc.

I'd be broken if this ever becomes mainstream. When I became a Furry I never felt so alive. I was always having my dreams crushed by fear, fate, and just damn luck. My uniqueness is the one thing I still hold on to and a central aspect of that is my Furry Fandom. There's a lot of things in my life I wish I could fix, but somehow I felt like I was cheated. I don't blame anything but luck. I used to want to be a fighter pilot; then I found out I was colorblind. I wanted to be a soldier at the age of 15 (In the Philippines it was a mandatory thing for all HS students) and continue on as Special Forces, denied. I wanted go to America; then I found out that this place wasn't what I expected it to be. Two divorces, some child abuse, and a fair dash of alienation later it seems as though every dream I ever want to be is just gonna get crushed in the long run except writing and being a Furry. If I ever lost either of those dreams then I'm screwed. I'd burn my Buizel suit and have to rewrite and/or delete all my writings. I'd be lost, confused, and feel just as helpless as I did during my childhood.

...But life goes on, and I have to live with it...

[TechRoo]

Then i wouldn,t have to explain to everyone why i am allways wearing a collar,  gets annoying sometimes....
For the rest i wouldn,t really care....

[alpha wolf]

I dont know if people would eccept it.  All of my friends know about my furryism and are totally fine with it.  The even are ok with me wearing a tail to parties    But im not sure if people would eccept it if it were mainstreem

[BusterBuizel]

Well in that case I'm fine with that. If it becomes mainstream, but not that popular, then I'd still be in on it.

[Sne]

If that'd be true, I wouldn't hide the fact I'm a furry. Probably I'd start wearing modified clothes as a fursuit (I don't think an actual fursuit would feel "real" enough) and maybe start saving money for a fur graft

[kivabunny]

If that'd be true, I wouldn't hide the fact I'm a furry. Probably I'd start wearing modified clothes as a fursuit (I don't think an actual fursuit would feel "real" enough) and maybe start saving money for a fur graft

can they do that?

[Sne]

can they do that?

Fur grafting? Supposedly. I think if the whole thing was socially accepted (or better, ignored), more people would want it and therefore create demand. I don't see any technical reasons as to why would it be impossible, so supply would have to follow.

[kivabunny]

can they do that?

Fur grafting? Supposedly. I think if the whole thing was socially accepted (or better, ignored), more people would want it and therefore create demand. I don't see any technical reasons as to why would it be impossible, so supply would have to follow.

but it would involve killing an animal would it not?

[Puncia]

Please stay on topic.

[Aoren Deringer]

Or you could (well, maim and mutate, really) a micro-organism so that it would alter your dermal cells and cause that one disease... Ah what's it called... Anyhow hair grows on their entire body. Could cause that. Grafting fur onto human flesh could have disasterous consequences. Especially because we absorb and release material through our skin, covering it so completely may actually kill you over time.
I think that if the fandom went mainstream you'd end up with a large population of semi-fur: people who do it because it's fashionable. Could be disasterous for the fandom.

[Sne]

Or you could (well, maim and mutate, really) a micro-organism so that it would alter your dermal cells and cause that one disease... Ah what's it called... Anyhow hair grows on their entire body. Could cause that. Grafting fur onto human flesh could have disasterous consequences. Especially because we absorb and release material through our skin, covering it so completely may actually kill you over time.
I think that if the fandom went mainstream you'd end up with a large population of semi-fur: people who do it because it's fashionable. Could be disasterous for the fandom.

A virus could perform gene therapy and fix everything, simply making the body to produce more, thicker and longer hair, possibly colored or if not, albino (so it can be dyed without problems). Hair grows on the entire body anyway, just not very thick. I had a synthetic fur graft in mind, so no animals harmed. Also, every mammal does the same stuff through the skin and it's not making any problems for them - and humans wear clothes that are more isolating than fur without dying of it.
Ahem.
Semi-fur population exists already and it's quite large as far as I can guess. That's not being exactly disastrous, I think it does confuse non-furs about the subject, but it's also beneficial as it subtly introduces it to them, too. It's hard to predict what consequences to expect.
Come to think of it, most probably it wouldn't be mentioned in schools anyway (because there would be no reason for it, really), however student's essays about the whole matter would be more frequent, so the actual knowledge (and not just acknowledgment of existence) would spread easier. That'd negate the confusion from non-furs, I suppose. As I said, it's difficult to estimate.