"It doesn't matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M
Just put your paws up
'Cause you were born this way"
If furry actually becoming this mainstream?
There's also the song by Usher "Beast, an animal is the mirrror" lyrics.
What's going on here.?
I doubt its Furryisms, just nonsense lyrics.
Well, She stands up for everyone.
It could have been her standing up for furries, or you know that line saying "get your paws off me."
She doesn't care if your Straight, bi, Gay, transgender, Hermaphrodite, or even a cross dresser.
Gaga stands up for everyone!
In one of her music videos "Just Dance" she has a fursuit featured in it. It's only showed a couple times tho.
Man, If being furry became mainstream... I see Anthrocon becoming more like Comic con. Awesome. c:
~~shadowwolf
This is the one thing we don't need.
When is a subculture not a subculture? When it goes mainstream. Going mainstream tends to commodify and commercialize subcultures. Their artefacts are taken by outsiders and stripped of their meaning, then frozen and mass produced in contexts which have been deemed "suitable" for mass consumption. In this manner, subcultures are `rehabilitated` from their exotica and pushed back into the context of mainstream culture.
See Dick Hebdige`s Subculture: The Meaning of Style, which, although written about punk culture in the late 1970s, in many ways is relatable to the furry fandom.
On that note, it's probably already starting to a point. How far it'll go for 'furry' becoming mainstream will remain to be seen. While I was in Seattle, I wandered past a Hot Topic, and being from a relatively Hot-Topic-free area, I was pretty shocked to see cat and raccoon-eared hats, and wolf-tailed hoodies.
It also makes it very difficult to know who you can be 'comfortable' around! I went up to a shy-looking young guy in rave pants and a fox-eared hat in Cranbrook, who looked very much like he could be part of the furry subculture, and when I asked him if he was a fur, he looked very confused and said 'a what?'
Such tricks! Might make it relatively difficult and/or awkward at times to have 'normal' people, unfamiliar with the alternative culture, look like furries and confuse the rest of us wierd people. :)
-LS
: Univaded Fox June 30, 2011, 12:46:48 -06:00
When is a subculture not a subculture? When it goes mainstream. Going mainstream tends to commodify and commercialize subcultures. Their artefacts are taken by outsiders and stripped of their meaning, then frozen and mass produced in contexts which have been deemed "suitable" for mass consumption. In this manner, subcultures are `rehabilitated` from their exotica and pushed back into the context of mainstream culture.
Word. Corporate meddling (search this up in TVTropes if you want more info) is the bane of all fandoms, giving them a stereotypical identity that a postmodernist, as I would like to consider myself as, would love to bring a battering ram to.