Wait, are you talking about scritchers, or something else?Lenoh said:Be respectful.
Personally, I think they're okay. Some of them are a bit out there and give us bad press (See: Chewfox [Maury], Sabrefox [CSI], Kiira [My Strange Addiction]) but a good percentage are OK people, if a bit nerdy.
One of your best puns to date, I laughed for a couple minutes.HankMan said:This thread is bound to get real hairy, real fast.
I still don't see how they're scum. From what I understand they're being hated just because they're stereotypical furries and they accepted the opportunity to be in reality T.V (except for csi), promoting furry oriented stereotypes. This just furthermore strengthens my conviction that this is all about 'furries hating furries.' It's not their job to be an icon or a symbol of how normal furries really are. They're just people trying to be them selves and it just so happens that they're the stereotypical furries. Still, I fail to see how they are scum.Lenoh said:Chewfox was the "bedroom fursuiter" on Maury.lSHaDoW-FoXl said:I don't know who ChewFox, Sabrefox, or Kiira are but regardless of whatever things they've done I don't feel the need to judge them, ever.
Sabrefox helped CSI write "Fur And Loathing".
Kiira was on "My Strange Addiction" as a fursuiter, quit the fandom due to it, then came back like nothing ever happened.
All three are examples of scumbag furries that make the rest of us look bad. But then again, all three are referred to when you ask Joe Sixpack what a furry is. It's an image thing. Nothing more, nothing less.
There are fursuiters that are 100% innocent and hang around kids at supervised events to entertain them. But you never hear about them, now do you?
There's the whole "What the hell qualifies as a furry?" thing going on as well. By the logic of most trolls, everyone who liked Disney movies with anthromorphic animals as a kid is a furry.Dexiro said:Why do so many people seem to think that Furry is just a fetish, that's like saying liking anything manga/anime related is a fetish just because hentai exists.
The whole anime fandom has cosplayers, artists, fanfic writers, and those that like hentai, but we don't define that fandom on the hentai lovers. Whereas the Furry fandom has the exact same elements but everyone seems to zero in on the sexual stuff.
Furry aint a fetish >:I
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! lol jkRex Dark said:I am one.
Felicia from Darkstalkers should probably do a Milk Commcercial then. Or a Peps or Coca-Cola one. Which ever works.Satosuke said:Furries will only gain legitimacy and tolerance from the mainstream when something uniquely furry becomes popular and profitable for a large business or large group of people.
Don't get your hopes up.
A furry is just anyone that likes an aspect of the fandom and decides to call themselves a furry. I mean there are furries out there that are only in the fandom because they like the community, some people are artists and others write fanfic or whatever.Aerograt said:There's the whole "What the hell qualifies as a furry?" thing going on as well. By the logic of most trolls, everyone who liked Disney movies with anthromorphic animals as a kid is a furry.Dexiro said:Why do so many people seem to think that Furry is just a fetish, that's like saying liking anything manga/anime related is a fetish just because hentai exists.
The whole anime fandom has cosplayers, artists, fanfic writers, and those that like hentai, but we don't define that fandom on the hentai lovers. Whereas the Furry fandom has the exact same elements but everyone seems to zero in on the sexual stuff.
Furry aint a fetish >:I
One word posts should be reported.Tree man said:TheIronRuler said:I THINK they're fine, as long as it remains in domains of... entertainment?Lenoh said:Be respectful.
Personally, I think they're okay. Some of them are a bit out there and give us bad press (See: Chewfox [Maury], Sabrefox [CSI], Kiira [My Strange Addiction]) but a good percentage are OK people, if a bit nerdy.
I'm not sure what my answer should be.
Could anyone shed more light on this phenomenon? I know very little.Why.Adzma said:Do not like them. They creep me out. :/
The way I see it and this is pretty much how i feel about everyone's fetish/intrest each to there own after all I dress and go out as a goth girl and called Vanessa so I'm noone to judge so like I say each to there ownRex Dark said:I am one.