The facetious answer is, "That depends on whether you think they were ever alive." They didn't do anything of note other than act as an echo chamber for one another, unless you consider that--irony of ironies--they probably helped attract some of the bad publicity furry fandom's gotten over the last few years. But I don't think they'd want the credit for that.
But, the 'dignified furs' mailing list that started this little thread is new and current. If the questions being batted around on it are similar to the ones the BFs posed in their moments of lucidity, it's because the questions are still around. Does bad press reduce the chance of things identified (let alone self-identified) as being associated with "furry" being widely accepted by people who aren't furry? Or is all publicity good publicity? The question behind those that caught me, though, was: just what do we mean by acceptance, anyway?
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Re: One question...
Date: 2004-02-10 08:19 (UTC)But, the 'dignified furs' mailing list that started this little thread is new and current. If the questions being batted around on it are similar to the ones the BFs posed in their moments of lucidity, it's because the questions are still around. Does bad press reduce the chance of things identified (let alone self-identified) as being associated with "furry" being widely accepted by people who aren't furry? Or is all publicity good publicity? The question behind those that caught me, though, was: just what do we mean by acceptance, anyway?