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- From: peacock5293@iscsvax.uni.edu (Greywolf)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.furry
- Subject: Re: Gender of Furries
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.103943.10177@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 10:39:43 -0600
- References: <570.472.uupcb@homebase.com> <1993Jan25.074155.21330@scubed.com>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <1993Jan25.074155.21330@scubed.com>, esalbert@scubed.com (Eric Salberta) writes:
- > In article <570.472.uupcb@homebase.com> michael.armstrong@homebase.com (Michael Armstrong) writes:
- >>DU>I'm not sure if I completely understand the comment, but the gist that I'm
- >> >reading is that (1) furries aren't and shouldn't be necessarily
- >> >stereotypical -- i.e. you shouldn't assume that all cats are females and
- >> >all dogs are males and (2) the way that various furries are pictured
- >> >may be a reflection on our own society. As our values change, these
- >> >depictions also change.
- >>
- >>That is correct, I was getting at an earlier preception of gender
- >>through furries as a possible connection to gender bias from that
- >>generation. Furries have change in sense in our close group enviroment
-
- :
-
- > Those who attended the Eric Schwartz animation on Saturday at
- > ConFURence, or are into Amiga animation at all, will surely think of
- > Amy the Squirrel, heroine of several very nice animations by Eric
- > Schwartz. Relaxing the "funny-animal" restriction, there are several
- > examples from manga, including the Dirty Pair and one of the three
-
- :
-
- I'm not quite sure what the point is, but if Armstrong's trying to suggest that
- there's some sort of gender-discrimination going on here (and I've been having
- problems following Armstrong's points anyway on a lot of things), then I would
- certainly disagree. For most of the "furry" comics I know of that are the most
- popular, particularly Erma Felna of the EDF, Red Shetland, Xanadu, etc., the
- lead character (or the character I presume is the lead character) is a female.
- Now, I *might* contend that things are a bit too much on the cheesecake side in
- furrydom for my personal tastes, but that's about it. I'm inclined to think
- that a lot of writers have had it hammered into them so many times that it's a
- bad thing to give all the good parts to males that it's probably likely there
- are a lot of writers who are consciously putting a female in the lead role in
- order to offset that. Of course, it could be just that Jim Groat likes to draw
- scantily-clad warrior-mares. {shrug}
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