Such a good article:
Why Nerds Hate Furries:
https://theculturalbarxist.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/why-nerds-hate-furries/
"in furry, where the fandom was uniquely focused on giving free reign to individual expression and where there’s no one single corporate canon, these same anti-LGBTQ arguments were a harder sell. Without the psychological divide between creators and consumers, no official gatekeeper could declare something to be incompatible with 'furry canon.'"
(h/t @xurnami )
@zebratron2084 Yeah, self-loathing is a thing too; see also the comment at the bottom that mentions that regarding the Burned Fur cofounder not otherwise mentioned in the article.