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Furries are comrades I will not stand for this.
Good thing I brought my duck costume, cause this place is about to get egged.
It feels so bizarre to hear random people, even old people, in my everyday life talk about furries
Furries are on the fascist's back burner in case they can't successfully vilify trans people in the eyes of the public.
Furry hate is a proxy for queer hate in general
It really is a sign that someone can't tolerate someone for being different from them, furries are harmless, so anyone who hates on them is certainly wishing they could express their hate for other groups more openly.
the only thing I've heard of that's even close to a legitimate criticism (not of furries in general but of fur suits specifically) is that fur suits rely heavily on exploitative supply chains. But yeah, pretty much anything else is a proxy for queer hate like you said. It's no surprise that furries were and still are often called fur-f-slurs on the internet.
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LITTER BOXES IN CLASSROOMS!
Remember, the actual reason there were buckets of cat litter in classrooms was because there for if there’s a school shooting and students can’t leave the classroom for multiple hours. CHUDs managed to make that about furries.
It's tricks then.,
They took time out of their day to find a well-posed fursuit picture to be mad at. 
Maybe it's because they know that dogs shouldn't eat chocolate?
The new Jim Crow
Currently reading the actual book The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Got some bangers about liberals and racism
Uni was a very grey and lonely time for me, but one of the few bright spots was when someone on the quad in a fursuit gave me some candy and a high five on Halloween. I felt completely invisible, so even a small positive interaction like that meant a lot to me, and it's always stuck with me.
So I got nothing against Furries, but I have noticed a weird thing where some will take any occasion that involves costumes as an excuse to dawn the suit, which is usually fine but sometimes I think it comes off as a bit obnoxious.
There's a German community near home that has a traditional Fastnacht which is pretty cool, all the locals make the traditional papier-mâché masks and have a big parade. But the last two years I've went there been a group of furries there, not officially part of the parade but just like having a little side thing. Which just stuck me as being off theme, I wasn't pissed or anything but it seemed a bit disrespectful to the festival organizers who put a lot of work into giving the event a consistent aesthetic.
Idk if I do or should feel similarly about furries on Halloween. Guess it really doesn't matter.
Edit: thought I should mention, there were other people there in not-on-theme costumes as well, like super hero stuff, and that also irked me a bit. Seemed like the town was trying to keep a consistent traditional look going on so the occasional Spider-Man seemed gauche to me.
Don't those suits run like $2000? If I dropped that kind of money I'd wear it every conceivable occasion also
$2000 is the absolute bare minimum. From people that have been making suits for a long time now, you're looking at $20,000
We make fun of rich people treats yet fur suits get a pass. 
Nothing actually against furries, but damn that cost is egregious, I usually thought around the 2-4k mark.
They used to be that price for quite a few years so you aren't wrong. $20K is an outlier price, but it's happened more than once so it's indicative.
The pricing is complicated though. Probably ~15 years ago, there were only a handful of makers and $4K was consider the top end. That's about what I paid for the top of the line back then. They lived in relatively low cost areas and either worked solo or with their partners.
A lot of new blood started to show up and enter the market. Rather than drive down prices, it actually ended up raising them. Many of these new makers were actually partnerships between two people and a lot of them were from the PNW and high cost of living areas. For two people to make a living there, they had to raise prices.
Prices crept up little by little, until big makers started to auction pre-made suits. Several of them have gone for well-north of $15K and that really caused a lot of makers, especially the ones that have been making suits for ~20 years now to really start charging more.
The business model has flipped on its head with most of them. Before, you'd send your design, they'd quote, and you'd decide whether or not to commission. Now, if you want to commission the person that made my suit for example, you send the design, but you have to tell them how much you want to pay... no offers below $10K.
It's all fueled by the fact that there are a LOT of well-compensated furries in tech that shovel money into this stuff. The "suspiciously wealthy furry" is a community in-joke for a reason.
That being said, aside from the faux fur production, you're paying an artist for art. It's not quite the same exploitation as rich people's treats.
I appreciate the breakdown. I had no idea all that was happening behind the scenes. Its cool to see the somewhat cottage artisan industry thriving. I never really got furry stuff and the face styles sorta creep me out, but I support folks doing what makes them happy.
I do really like when people have a hyper-realistic animal head instead of the cartoony ones but I don't think they're particularly common or really that big in the scene.
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It's 50 degrees out? You could wear a light jacket, or you could wear a bright blue wolf suit.
They should have oversized papier-mâché masks for the fursuits to wear
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They used a photo of a fur suit with a protruding junk pouch...
Or maybe that's just the inner thigh color pattern? I don't know.
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