{"id":218,"date":"2003-02-07T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-07T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2003\/02\/07\/the-few-the-proud-the-odd\/"},"modified":"2003-02-07T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-07T10:45:00","slug":"the-few-the-proud-the-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2003\/02\/07\/the-few-the-proud-the-odd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Few, The Proud, The Odd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found this while looking up some furry info:<\/p>\n<p><i>Furry fan to web columnist:<\/i> I&#8217;m offended by how you bid for cheap laughs by portraying furries as sexual deviants in your previous column. Some of us just suit up and role-play for the experience of being a fur!<\/p>\n<p><i>Web columnist to furry fan:<\/i> Chill out. The Trekkies learned to accept being made fun of years ago, you&#8217;ll have to also. Besides, wearing a fursuit for the purposes of kinky sex makes more sense to me than wearing one for any other reason&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Why am I referring to this? It&#8217;s beginning to seem to me that openly, honestly weird folk seem to get a lot more back-handed respect than the timidly weird, the &#8220;weird only on weekends&#8221;, the &#8220;weird as a form of social protest&#8221; types. When one&#8217;s cheerfully, openly different, yet basically functional in society, they&#8217;ll still be made fun of, but there&#8217;ll be an undertone of sneaking admiration for someone brave enough to take a different path and make it work.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the posers, the people who only act different &#8217;cause they&#8217;re not getting enough attention, the ones who need to constantly defend their differences to people who really don&#8217;t care, seem to draw more honest scorn.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this while looking up some furry info: Furry fan to web columnist: I&#8217;m offended by how you bid for cheap laughs by portraying furries as sexual deviants in your previous column. Some of us just suit up and role-play for the experience of being a fur! Web columnist to furry fan: Chill out. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,58,41,33],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-alt-sex","tag-discordia","tag-fandom","tag-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-3w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}