[No, I am not making up what follows…]
Yesterday I was chatting with a woman whose two Golden Doodles are fond of romping with Spuds. She told me about her recent experience at a private school where her daughter attends, but soon will attend no more, as you will shortly understand.
This school is famously progressive, and among other things indulges “furry” delusions among its students. Don’t you know about “furries??
Oh, listen my children and you shall hear of this crazy fad the woke hold dear…
A furry is a person who is obsessed with anthropomorphic animals. Many furries create their own animal character, called a fursona, which they identify with and emulate. This can extend to creating elaborate costumes, called fursuits, that resemble the animal they identify with. Furries deny that this is a fetish, but of course it is. The obsession is embraced by the LGBTQ community, so when you see “F” added to the letter array, you’ll know what it stands for.
One of the girls in the woman’s daughter’s class is a furry who identifies as a fox. (I’m old enough to remember when a girl identifying as a fox meant something completely different…) She wears a big fox tail attached to her clothes in the butt area. The school has no problem with this. The teacher, following the policy of the school, does not discourage the girl’s furriness, and indeed goes to great lengths to make the fetish seem “welcome.” The girl routinely sits, not at her desk, but on the class windowsill. When she sees a squirrel, she starts barking.
The mother of the girl in the barking fox-girl’s class complained to the school administration that her daughter was having trouble concentrating on her studies with all the noise coming from the windows. She was told , sternly, that the school would not discuss “accommodations” made for students with “special needs” with other parents.
“We’re out of there,” the mother told me. Gee, ya think?
This absurd scenario is on the extreme end of the slippery slope leapt upon by the Left as the Great Stupid spread across the land. No discipline, no law enforcement, no confrontation, no logic, no consequences. It is amazing to me that the backlash didn’t come earlier, and it would be amazing that it wasn’t more overwhelming than the vote totals indicate, but I can only assume this is because 1) Trump is so incorrigibly obnoxious and 2) because the news media has lied, covered up, spun and distorted what is going on sufficiently to keep reality out of the consciousness of the lazy, naïve, brain-washed and ignorant.
That is, sadly, a large portion of the voting public.
The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto among others has repeated the slogan, “All the Left had to do to prevail was not be crazy, and they still couldn’t do it.” The Crazy infesting the schools is too much for responsible citizens to tolerate. I recommended that the woman organize the other parents into a confrontation and an ultimatum to that school, and volunteered to assist. I suggested that the group adopt George H.W. Bush’s line in announcing the U.S. opposition to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait: “This will not stand.”
Ethics Alarms 
There is room in this world for cosplay, at the appropriate place and time. There is room for storytelling, at the appropriate place and time. The classroom isn’t the appropriate place nor time.
There is no room for delusions that one actually is the character one has dreamed up. It’s a mental illness, plain and simple.
Ah, but thy once said that homosexuality and believing one was transgender were a mental illnesses too!
Minor observation: As I recall, certain girls were deemed to be foxes, as in “She’s a fox!” The idea a girl could become anything by “identifying” as anything was just a gleam in some nutjob’s eye.
You do not identify as a fox, but others recognize you as such. Or to paraphrase that famous Jedi:”We give you a seat on the windowsill but do not grant you the title of fox.”
Hah!
I just remembered “She’s a fox,” must date at least from Jimmy Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady.”
We better avoid making laws either prohibiting this kind of stupid or laws prohibiting prohibiting this kind of stupid. Otherwise we might reduce our freedom in this country to merely a gulag with a moderately high standard of living.
i have come to cherish this kind of stupid simply because it encourages us to do just as Jack offered band together, get active and shut it down! Money walks, and money talks. It’s no more complicated than that.
Now my question is: if this furries is ostracized form society with respect to this furry behavior, is this ostracism an example of a decrease in this person freedom?
Wrong, there have to be laws governing behavior. Some behavior has to be off-limits. They aren’t banning furries, they are banning people sitting in windowsills and barking at squirrels when the other children are trying to learn. Just like you can ban boys from the girl’s bathroom, you can ban kids from disrupting the class. This child is NOT a fox, that is an absolute fact, not up to interpretation, just like there are 2 sexes, it is a biological fact. Denying it is not rational and does not have to be tolerated any more than a 2nd grader who insists that THEY are the principal of the school and insist on running things. Actually, the 2nd grader insisting they are the principal is MORE rational than everything else listed. The principal IS just there by a societal rule and paperwork.
Last I checked, we had laws against murder, stealing, stalking, harassment, driving on the wrong side of the road (I don’t care if you ‘identify’ as ‘British’). These are all behaviors that negatively affect other people. If you start going to random weddings and start screaming, I bet you will get trespass or disorderly conduct citations. Society has rules to avoid conflict between individuals. If there wasn’t a law against murder, you end up with cycles of feuds and vendettas. If you don’t have laws against people randomly ruining the weddings of strangers, people will start beating those people.
Release the hounds and sound the trumpets.
My daughter wore a “cat ears” headband and a tail at GenCon (a games convention in Indianapolis) once as a teenager, but that was cosplay for the convention only, and she certainly did not think of herself as anything but human, even while cosplaying.
Well, sure but I’ve seen more than one person dressed as Darth Vader or Imperial storm troopers. There is even an organization — I believe it’s the 501st Imperial Storm Troopers that people belong to.
If that school had someone who dressed up as Michael Meyers for Halloween, would it be ok for him to run around chopping up people?
Exactly. What you and Catherine are describing is cosplaying as a hobby, not as a lifestyle. Neither Catherine’s daughter nor the 501st really believe they are who they are dressing up as. They do not demand to be treated as if they are the characters they are playing nor is their hobby disruptive to those with whom they interact on a daily basis.
what will the school do when the Fox-girl starts attacking the chicken-kids?
-Jut
The chickens are organic and free range. The fox is kept in her warren. Isn’t that where foxes live? Or is it a burrow? I forget. Anyway, these are idealized wild animals. They are kind. You know, the modern-day equivalent of Noble Savages. They’re actually morally superior to humans. And more intelligent. Their mantra is “Be Kind.”
Where I come from, polite people train their canines not to bark at the squirrels….
It would be easier for all involved to just enfoce a strict school uniform policy. But it’s public, so they won’t.
I’d bet she’s barking like a dog, rather than a fox. They should advise her she has to be all-in…correct vocalizations, no speech, no human clothes, no human classroom instructions, stays in a kennel, eats her lunch from a bowl, no utensils, etc., etc.