Prior to the head-in-the-sand policy that people were advocating during the entire Beast Forum era, the majority of zoos were just naturally out within the context of the subcultures that they identified with.
It was only during the Beast Forum era that this unholy alliance between anti-zoos and fearful idiots emerged, and they went on this anti-exposure crusade, swearing that the only way we could ever protect ourselves was to stay absolutely hidden from the notice of society at large. They ran things in that community.
If you look how
@arcticwolf69 was trying to troll me, that's a classic trolling tactic. They will keep posting one side of what basically constitutes a canned conversation until the victim eventually sounds just enough like someone that was on the other side of that conversation, in the past, that they can say, "You are a sock-puppet!" and then they and the rest of the goons start sending in reports that a previously banned person may have created another account in violation of policy. You don't even have to type. You could do it with a set of macros or even a robot. It is erasure of a person's very identity. People like him got very accustomed to being able to get rid of anyone they didn't want to see very easily using the same tactics over and over. He was engaging in a trolling tactic that I had seen in the past, and I am pretty sure that this was normal behavior on Beast Forum. I am pretty sure that he and a lot of others on there shot down many good contributors using the same tactics.
What the Beast Forum generation thought they were doing was preserving the
status quo, but they did precisely the opposite of preserving the
status quo. The
status quo in the past was that, back in the 1990's, I just told my friend that I roleplayed with online that, as a matter of fact, I do like animal sex. It was a natural sort of thing. I had never thought about the idea that I would ever hide it in any sex-positive environment. Every time that I did that, I was actually preserving the
status quo, which was that everyone,
everyone that had been to any venue that was even slightly sex-positive knew that there were many different sexual inclinations that were not otherwise widely accepted in society. What the idiots on Beast Forum did was that they went on an anti-exposure crusade. They deliberately undermined the natural exposure that we had just due to young zoos having never heard of the idea that they should keep it a secret.
Just because there might have been pro-exposure activism going on, there were a lot of people doing precisely the opposite during the Beast Forum generation of zoos. That generation of zoos absolutely shit the bed, and now the same filth are still on the same anti-exposure crusade that got us into our current situation. They will never understand the destruction that they have caused the zooey community.
Well, the gay community often had the same problem. During the 1940's through the late 1960's, there were misleaders in the gay community that urged other gay men to keep this aspect of their lives absolutely secret and to never tell anybody. Previously, back in the Roaring 20's, it had been normal for gay men to be relatively open because after all, you were at a speakeasy. Maybe gay sex was illegal, but so was the speakeasy. Everyone there was committing a crime. Nobody was going to report you for kissing a man because they didn't want to invite the cops in to ruin everything. It was only during the succeeding generation that the gay community developed a toxic, secretive underground culture. Instead of mingling freely with straight people and behaving naturally, they were engaging in this sort of destructive toxic escapism.
What happened to the zooey community is that the zooey community itself was struck by a toxic reactionary movement. They believed that they were going to restore a former
status quo that never was. They successfully used the progressives within the zooey community as a scapegoat, and the entire zooey community developed this mass delusion that, just as long as they stayed obediently in their dirty, little pigeonhole, the rest of the world could never find them.
Prior to the Beast Forum generation, nobody in the zooey community believed that we needed some sort of "statute of secrecy" in order to protect ourselves. During the Beast Forum generation, this idea spread like wildfire and became predominant. Well, the zooey community followed that policy right to the hilt, and quite naturally, everything went to Hell.
The Apostles of Cowardice driving us zoos farther underground than we already were is what got us into this situation, and now those that didn't cuck out altogether want to double down on that destructive policy. The rest of us need to stop soft-handing them. They fouled the sheets, and is time for them to start owning up to that fact.
The worst fallacy of them all was the destructive and absolutely stupid belief that a forum with an animal sex theme is somehow invisible to the rest of society. It was absolutely contemptible stupidity.
