Got into a debate with my dad about furries and he dropped this brick on me without warning;
"People were wanting to fuck wolf people since Ireland had kings you shites aren't original."
Apparently Irish werewolves weren't monsters, and kings would invite them for '100 kisses' in bed.
Huh.
Who's trying to claim we're "original"? If anything, I usually see people emphasizing what a long history furries have depending on how exactly one defines the term.
Another thing I learned from my dad was the Scottish variant of werewolf, or Wulver, wasn't evil either; they'd collect fish and leave it on the windowsill of poor families.
Would you believe my brain was so slow it didn't click that you're Irish until after I hit reply and then I was like ... eh fuck it, I'm not deleting that.
This led me to a fascinating dissertation by Gwendolyne Knight (extremely cool name, very good paper) Broken Order Shapeshifting as Social Metaphor in Early Medieval England and Ireland - www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
Gun to the head of anyone in the house of lords, they probably are not, on the whole, pro-furry.
Microphone in their face? Staunch anti-furry. Some horseshit about degenerates, some complaints about today's generation(s), maybe a slur thrown in.
Anthropomorphic characters in literature across history, but the debate started because my dad, who showed a rare interest in furry, asked if the brave little toaster was considered furry. It was a fun debate
Also, thank you for actually inquiring on what the root topic was rather than jumping to conclusions. It's refreshing to know there are people out there with working grey matter!