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I'd imagine the easiest reference point would be furries -- their coolness level doesn't seem to have changed in 30 years. (^_^;)
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Hmmm. I would say that I have seen more than one high school student regularly wearing animal ears and occasionally tails. So even furries have become more... not accepted. Less rejected?
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mmm, might be some semantic confusion. I at least don't classify someone wearing ears to be a 'furry'. To me a furry is someone who is intensely obsessed with anthropomorphic cartoon art of a pornographic nature. It may bleed over into wanting to 'be' a character and wearing a full body fur suit for anonymous sexual encounters.
There has been some nice comic work involving anthropomorphic characters that was totally non-sexual (Saki's Usagi Yojimbo comes to mind), but the 'big titties cat girl' is far, far more common.
So it seems to me.
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we're friends with a couple who have a tween daughter who thinks the anthropomorphic stuff is pretty cool; even has her own fursuit complete with wolf mask, and there *may* be photos of me with that mask on my head. What I don't know is if her interest in "furry" has anything to do with any "furry" properties or characters, or if it's just an interest in the genre as a whole. There may, in fact, be an entire set of people who just like wearing animal-ear headgear and clip-on tails as fashion items, without ever being aware of Shanda The Panda or Red Shetland or any of their ilk.