I want to return to the black furries mini discussion. I never noticed the wolf thing, tho a google search turns up a lot of fursuits that look like they could definitely be wolves and maybe a chipmunk. it's a kind of interesting subject because in shedding your human-form by becoming a furry, you also shed your human ethnicity and anything else that makes you categorized as person. All that's left is whatever you want to be in your mind, and you get new traits or races to categorize yourself as and belong to as you wish. I have mixed feelings about that - it's kind of beautiful, but also feels like a lot is lost.
I think it's ultimately cool probably. I still think the youtube comment on Plinkett Avatar review, white cis straight guy as hero, averts or doesn't know the term 'status quo' so they just say AVATAR HERO IS LAZY DEFAULT DUDE or something amazing. I do think there's so much stuff about being white that is just, there's not too much pressure to really be anything, it's a bunch of DEFAULT stuff like, I dunno wear a t-shirt or something. Like the troublesome thing about nazis was they were trying to find everything unique about being white like WAGNER or whatever. I don't think young people identify classical music as white people music, it's like grandpa music instead lol.
I'm disgressing but I felt like being a white person I was never forced to like or dislike anything ever or dress a certain way or whatever. I was totally labeled as a nerd but it still felt more 'ok'. If I had been black, feels like this insane amount of societal pressure to me, maybe it's not that way really in 2018, but it's like, even the dragon ball z shirts that black people seemed to wear in high school, was there PEER PRESSURE to find dragon ball z cool or something? I swear there's a lot less sub-groups you're going to feel like you can fit into if you're black. Like there's the random black goth kid, but how many cases were there of black people forming a group like 'goths'. It wouldn't be literally goth because gothic implies EURO but like an 'it's alright to get depressed' scene I guess? There's planet mu, u-ziq's label promoting that FOOTWORK stuff and it seems like the kind of 'its own thing' sort of movement I'm hoping exists. I keep thinking like, is it the closest equivalent for black people, to starting a rave music-y scene?
I'm serious about the 'it's alright to get depressed' scene/movement among black people, I think white people have a little bit of a monopoly on the whole DEPRESSION thing, it gets into icky feelings.... radiohead..... being depressed implies nuance, lol. I mean it could be an ironic/self aware movement about being depressed
but yeah if I were any other ethnicity I'd feel moments at time where I'd just want to SHED EVERYTHING preconceived notions about what the heck I'm supposed to be. That weird thing where you feel the need to unify as group but you're worried everybody's got a weird ass idea of what the common identity is supposed to be. It was cool learning about Ghana and the movie posters and then later on some movie trailers and stuff, I have it in my head that Ghana is THE JAPAN OF AFRICA now. I keep meaning to look up, supposedly their fashion is considered unique among African stuff too, I'm like keeping the Ghana is Japan theme and wondering is this the African take on a kimono
https://www.google.com/search?q=ghana+fashion&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK6cr1_dHaAhVCZN8KHSfVDBYQ_AUICigB&biw=1362&bih=617#imgrc=_ lol I dunno
the dragon ball z shirts still mystify me, it's like maybe it wasn't exclusively a black people thing but it was this specific type of shirt, like white people would wear dragonballz t-shirts but I didn't even KNOW where these other shirts came from. And sometimes it was a similar type of shirt but it was more kung-fu/samurai themez
Edit: the black version of rave thing is maybe troublesome because even my brother acknowledges house music was invented by a bunch of gay black guys. But I guess by 'rave' I mean like full on glowstick party time music haha. I think footwork has the same energy the everyday person thinks of when they think RAVEMUSIC. that kind of SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE ELECTRONO BEATS feel to the songs. there was an aphex song that was alternately titled ELECTRO GARBAGE BEATS/GARBAGEMUSIC and I still want to believe that was the true canon song title
Edit: also furries, without even going into the scene itself, the entire concept of what a furry is. I think there's even a psych study somewhere one time, where like people assume the furry character is their race. It might almost be like, people who draw Jesus as a black or chinese guy phenomenon. Going back to high school there were also the looney tunes shirts among not necessarily black but non-white people that might've been space jam theme but might've been completely unrelated too, bugs bunny dressed in random hip-hop fashion attire etc. lol it was weird like perhaps they were AVERTING space jam licensing by making it more generic. Maybe somewhere in the brain you assume berenSTAIN bears necessarily has to be portrait/allegory of some white family. I said something about maybe black people tending to be bear furries but I don't think that's true. But I think there's maybe dangerous implications, every race wants the title of TEDDYBEAR ultimately lol
Edit: fox furry is super cliched, but still noble thought, I don't want to be affectionate teddybear I want to be the ultimate asshole of animal society. steal chicken eggs, break thru chicken wire fences, annoy the fuck out of everyone/farmers.(HOMAR SIMPSON LOUSY FARMERS) It can be good allegory for something but it's just a bunch of furries do nothing with it. Random goat friend thinks from whatever kind of writings that it's NOT THE HIPPIES NOT THE PUNKS it's ASSHOLES who write history the most? Or something. Effective people tend to be strongly opinionated/viewed as total assholes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoIxKT5lIGs random raccoon in the video, guardians of the galaxy rocket raccoon is the first effective random ass furry as movie character in ages. Honestly really didn't give me the furry vibe because there is the suspension of disbelief A RACCOON WOULD THINK LIKE THIS IF COULD TALK. Steals batteries for no reason etc., wants to fuck shit up all the time. Voice is totally reminiscent of the edgy 90s video game character/mascot archetype