I probably realized I was a Furry back in the late 90s. Back then it was mostly a bunch of teenagers logging on and making fantasy roleplay that broke up the mundane of school life. This fandom has always attracted the eccentric, and so, unsurprisingly ‘tolerance’ and ‘acceptance’ were common buzzwords for as long as I can remember.

As a far-right leaning person I’ve always felt like the minority, but I learned to avoid political stuff and stick to making stories with and socializing with girls from other parts of the country I wouldn’t otherwise be able to meet.

Year after year I watched things become less-and-less straight. “Chicks with dicks” characters started appearing. (Yuck) Gender-bending became vogue, and more-and-more militant LGBT types were coming on here and grinding their axes. In the mid 2000s I pretty much gave up and decided to pursue other things in life. It had become enough of a cesspit that was no longer worth my time.

A couple years ago I decided to become a writer, and one of my first projects was to return to one of the greatest sources of creative inspiration for me, and that was the Furry fandom. I started a rickety little blog called “Furry Etiquette For Males,” where I would try to convey what I’ve learned turning years of frustration in roleplay into what really became, to me, successful, imaginative and steamy roleplay all the time.

The face of Furrydom in 2012.

I put articles up on various platforms, and the attacks started almost right away, lead by, guess who? Feminists. My comments section would be piled full of feminists and their vile vitriol, attacking me because I dared to share what I knew with other guys to help them get better roleplay with women. Dozens and dozens of nasty comments from them. This was interspersed with banal comments from weakling males about how I “shouldn’t generalize” and “shouldn’t group people like this,” et al. They did everything they could to sic the moderators on me, and the moderators were more than happy to censor my material whenever possible. I wasn’t part of their shitty little club.

For me it wasn’t a huge surprise. All the screaming about “tolerance” and “acceptance” was still there, but tolerance and acceptance in the Furry fandom was always only reserved for those who believed in the right things. I’ve known that nasty little truth for a long time.

The Feminists of furrydom wanted a war with me back in 2013. Suffice it to say they got one. It wasn’t just far right guys like me, though, even leftist males, atheist types and others, who also turned on the Feminists. Today ‘Feminism’ is a dirty word in the Furry community, just as it is everywhere else. The brush fire against Feminism started with the broader community’s general revulsion of them, through Gamergate and what not, but I think it has now broadened far beyond just Gamergate.

Look around on the internet. The right is ascendant everywhere. We rule Twitter. We own YouTube. If the comments sections on any major news site is open, it’s dominated by either Conservatives or the Alt-Right. Even Facebook is losing its leftist grip. And guess what? No community, no matter how off-beat it may be, is immune when the pendulum of culture and society swings, and make no mistake, it is swinging rightward and swinging back hard.

The left is losing this generation and they know it. 

If you think that dynamic isn’t present in the Furry fandom, then you’d better think twice. Straight, right-leaning furry guys are “coming out of the closet.”

If there’s anyone in this fandom who has had to put up with more censorship and bandwagoning than I have, I’d like to know who they are. My story, The Furred Reich, has been attacked constantly by gate-keeping scumbags who throw the rulebook at me, and give many others a pass for the exact same thing.

I once reported some guy in a comment section who said “burn all Germans,” only to have a FurAffinity moderator tell me that the “no disparaging people’s nationality” rule doesn’t apply “because we’re all one people and nationality doesn’t exist.” I’ve had my shit deleted from forums even though moderators admitted it fit the rules, but “some people might construe it otherwise.” I’ve been turned down by many artists because they don’t like the presumed politics of my story. I’ve been blocked by even more simply because they don’t like my avatar. And I pretty much get attacked every other day, despite being unflappably polite on any and all Furry mediums. And I’ve been shut out from advertising on pretty much every major furry platform. All because of a Furry fiction story involving some German veterans from WWII. There’s the reality of this fandom’s “tolerance.”

But despite that, I just sit back, relax and keep working, because after years of this shit I can feel things changing and changing fast. The moderators and gatekeepers don’t like me or my story, but truth be told it’s no longer their call. The left is losing its death grip on this fandom and losing it fast.

Far right Furrydom under construction.

The #AltFurry hashtag continues to gain traction, as well as ‘Nazi Furs,’ Christian furs and many others who are just sick-and-tired of the Social Justice Warrior orthodoxy around here. There is now a strong right countercurrent in the Furry fandom. Those who don’t like this fact are simply going to have to practice all the talk of “tolerance” and “acceptance” that they’ve been hypocritically preaching all these years.

Maybe this can help them learn to be better people.