Let’s get right to the point, there’s a furry club in my school and it just started yesterday with meetings every Monday after school.

I can’t be the only one that finds this a little disturbing. The ads posted around the school go something like this:

“Do you like anthros? Do you like human-like animals? Have you ever put on cat ears and smiled? Or maybe you’re just curious? Visit the furry club! We visit ever Monday at 4 PM where we discuss the furry fandom, conventions, art style, and community! We’re gonna start things off by discovering our fursonas! See you there!”

No, really. This is pretty much word for word.

Now I’ll be the last person to say I like furries, and I generally disprove of the idea, but the fact is, you made a club about what is otherwise a sexual fetish at a high school. I mean, the anime club was pushing the line, but that sometimes doubled as the Japanese club so it was alright from time to time. This? This is just not right for a high school. It’s not improving the environment, it’s not raising school spirit, it’s not helping people recognize a skill they have, it’s doing nothing except getting some of deep, outer-outcasts of our school to be in a club and be stupid.

This is NOT something you take to a high school. You keep this kinda stuff to yourself and your little anonymous underground communities, not to public places for everyone to watch you flaunt about in your fur. This is high school, and you come here to learn and otherwise improve upon yourself. Not draw furry people and pride yourself upon it with a mix of other socially awkward people.

Now I’ve seen the furries at my school. They’re a group, my ex-girlfriend was around ‘em a lot (cause she’s a furry and she’s my ex cause she’s a furry) so I got to see them. They’re not subtle about it. They’re the “hey wanna yiff barkbarkbark meowkawaiiiiiiiiiiii” wearing a collar around their neck kind. I can’t stand that. The furry fandom seems to get a kick out of letting everyone know what kinda stuff they’re into. You don’t do that out in public. You just don’t. It’s not one of society’s stupid rules, it’s a part of your life that you keep to yourself and a small group of people and NOT be annoying with it.

With that being the case, why do they even NEED a club. All ten of them hang out with each other all the time, they’ve all been part of the idea for quite some time, it’s not like making a club is gonna change anything at all except show yourself to the rest of the school just how flamboyant about your fetish you really are. You know what are good clubs? Music clubs. Chess clubs. Sports clubs. Academic clubs. Not “dress up like an animal and be really weird just cause” club.

I also understand that the furry fandom isn’t just sexual. There is a more family friendly side to it, and the term can be stretched to cover a whole ton of things. But like I said, I know these people. They’re not the family friendly furry, they’re the kinda kids who get a kick out of being given weird glances, the kind of kids who enjoy being the line in the Q, the kind of furries that would nothing except what I described earlier. Let’s go into a little more detail: the president of the club is a girl who spread a whole bunch of fake rumors about herself that she got raped, she’s told me thousands of times she can’t get raped because she’d like it, she’s always asking people to grab her gross boobs, she wears these huge “leg warmers” which is really furry code for “stealth furry,” she draws pictures of wolves having sex with each other, she drew FREAKING ME MYSELF as a furry (and dear God would I sue for sexual harassment now, that picture showed my pubic hair what the God), and I’m pretty certain, academically, she doesn’t give two craps. The only way I can see her having gotten a furry club made is because she knows a teacher who’s gay step-son is a furry along with the fact that the principal probably doesn’t understand this furry thing as much as other people.

There’s just a hundred things wrong with this. I don’t care what furries are doing, that’s a part of my life I take no part in and I’m not gonna shame them for being into wacky things, but the fact of the matter is that some of these people have decided to waste their time making a club dedicated to it at a high school, where much more important things should be on the agenda. Yiff and fur is a home-alone activity with the lights off and the laptop on, not immediately after school in a class room where it’s run by a disgusting little girl who is no position to be president of anything.

… And freak, their club logo could have at LEAST been a furry of our mascot, show a little spirit.