Poll: What do you think of furries?

[captainwolfos]

Eh, I'm totally indifferent. I like some of the art, but some of the porn is disturbing.

[small]Not that I go actively looking for this stuff, or anything...[/small]

 

[Rainboq]

I am a furry, 'nuff said.

 

[dvd_72]

And as an added bonus, being nice to furries pisses off the WBC, so score!

Sounds like a reason enough to -become- one!

This thread is bound to get real hairy, real fast.

Bad pun! go to your room!

 

[orangebandguy]

I don't like the teen angst that surrounds it, or the shitty artwork they produce en mass.

The whole sexual thing disgusts me in all honesty. But I'm not going to kill anyone over it, or argue over it. I wish they would keep to themselves a bit more.

 

[Trololo Punk]

Couldn't really care, what someone does with their "free time" is their business.
Also to be honest, it really creep me out either but I'm not a furry myself.

 

[Android2137]

I like a good anthropomorphic art, especially when it's an unexpected animal or its presented in a new way (like Rene Magritte's mermaid), but I don't want to hear about the people who get off on them.

 

[DarthFennec]

Well, I am one. But its not really a fetish for me. Its just a way of expressing who I am.
And as for the tail thing, theres lots of ways to go about it. Do goth kids wear black make up for attention, or do they wear it because she likes it? Does that person wear bright yellow to stand out, or because they like yellow?
As for me, I wear my tail because I like to.

Welcome to the forum! We've got a group, you should go join :3

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Furries? Vile creatures they are, best not to let them establish themselves anywhere.

No, but seriously, I really don't care that much. They're fine with me. Not my cup of tea, but I'm sure I have interests that people would say the same thing about. Live and let live is what I do with the furries. Sure there's that small minority in the furry fandom that is really creepy, but then of course I imagine every fandom has that small, creepy minority within it.

Yaoi/yiffy creeps me out a little when it pops up uninvited.
I'm okay with furries. Actually, if there was a woman that asked me to dress up with her to satisfy her predilection, yeah I'd totally go for it. As long as it didn't cost too much.
Ever see that episode of Entourage?

Just wanted to quote you and point out that Yaoi is something quite different than furry (where the "yiff" comes into play). You probably don't want to get them confused.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Don't like them at all. I find them fugly and consider it bestiality.
After all, they ARE animals, are they not?

... No? You have an anthropomorphic animal as your avatar, do you consider it an animal? I don't, I think it's a human with animal features and characteristics. Which is exactly what we're talking about. ... unless she's just got fake ears, but I assume not.

Also, furriness extends beyond sex, there's a lot more to it than just the fetish. Saying that furries are gross because bestiality is like saying otaku are gross because tentacle rape, or I could compare it to any number of other fandoms out there. I could say all preschool teachers are pedophiles and it would make just as much sense.

Oh really. I didn't realize mechanical implants were anthro.

 

[ramboondiea]

not a fan, however so long as people keep it to them selves then i dont mind

 

[Atomic Bonsai]

Oh, awesome. How d oI find it? .u.

 

[DarthFennec]

Don't like them at all. I find them fugly and consider it bestiality.
After all, they ARE animals, are they not?

... No? You have an anthropomorphic animal as your avatar, do you consider it an animal? I don't, I think it's a human with animal features and characteristics. Which is exactly what we're talking about. ... unless she's just got fake ears, but I assume not.

Also, furriness extends beyond sex, there's a lot more to it than just the fetish. Saying that furries are gross because bestiality is like saying otaku are gross because tentacle rape, or I could compare it to any number of other fandoms out there. I could say all preschool teachers are pedophiles and it would make just as much sense.

Oh really. I didn't realize mechanical implants were anthro.

Alright then, they're fake. I'm pretty sure I put that qualifier in there

There are a lot of anime where the ears and tail are things are real. What's your opinion on those?

 

[Variable X]

I've got a bit of an odd way of looking at it. I guess it's a scale of anthropomorphism interest. It starts with those who like the basic idea of anthropomorphism, stuff like stone golems, trents, the homunculus from FMA. Human features on non-human things.

Then yah move onto light animal based anthropomorphism, or the "I'm not a furry because I just like cat-girls" crowd. Pretty self explanatory.

Next is interest in animal based anthropomorphism from an aesthetic stand point. No sexual interests what so ever. A great example is Lackadaisy Cats, were all the characters are anthropomorphic cats because the artist feels that they convey better expressions, and they do!

After that is what people normally think of as a "Furry", though I refuse to call them that. Same as above except they do have a sexual interest as well. This is where things like anthro-personas and mild to intense explicit content with all the bog standard fetishes (feet, large/small breasts, BDSM, and so on) come into play. "Stage performance" fur-suits are in this section too. I consider myself between this category and the last.

Then come the people I despise. This is my definition of the word Furry. Anyone who partakes in one or more of the following: Devoting a majority of their time creating, purchasing or view explicit content, un-ironic use of "furry words" (yiff, purring/barking, using animal parts or terminology instead of human, murr, that whole deal), extreme fetishes, sexual use of a "fur-suit", calling a significant other "mate", multiple set of the same genitalia, and getting huffy about "fursecution"

And lastly there are those who take it even farther. Those are they kind that legitimately believe it's a lifestyle and should be unconditionally respected, believe that the "Fandom" is a coherent group that can "push people out", believe they actually are an animal in a human's body, systematic liars and massive creeps, god-complexed "furry police", and the hyper-drama mongers and mentally detatched/deranged that will go far enough to threaten legal action/DMCA over petty things. These types also suffer the symptoms of the previous group.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Don't like them at all. I find them fugly and consider it bestiality.
After all, they ARE animals, are they not?

... No? You have an anthropomorphic animal as your avatar, do you consider it an animal? I don't, I think it's a human with animal features and characteristics. Which is exactly what we're talking about. ... unless she's just got fake ears, but I assume not.

Also, furriness extends beyond sex, there's a lot more to it than just the fetish. Saying that furries are gross because bestiality is like saying otaku are gross because tentacle rape, or I could compare it to any number of other fandoms out there. I could say all preschool teachers are pedophiles and it would make just as much sense.

Oh really. I didn't realize mechanical implants were anthro.

Alright then, they're fake. I'm pretty sure I put that qualifier in there

There are a lot of anime where the ears and tail are things are real. What's your opinion on those?

Compare: something shaped like a human but with nearly all animal features and a human with a feature or two? Same thing? They're both anthropomorphism, but one is clearly VERY far on the animal side of the spectrum. Far enough, I'd say, to just call it an animal.
Basically its the difference between animal with human features and human with animal features.

 

[A velociraptor]

Honestly, it's a fetish. Just like S&M, Bondage, group sex, and the myriad of other fetishes out there. I experimented with it a long time ago, it didn't do it for me, I moved on. I don't understand why people think it's worse than any other fetish, but some people also think tattoos are of the devil, so whatever.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

'Tis an odd fetish, but as long as they are not throwing it in my face I can't think of a reason to care.

 

[Riobux]

If they want to be that way, go for it. As long they're not preforming acts of bestiality (which a very small minority do), I am fine with it.

 

[Erana]

Is social identity really that important to you, even if it can lead to discrimination and hatred?

Well, if I as an asexual (AKA: the sexual minority with the most innocuous identifier ever) feel the need to come out of the closet, I do think there's something to being out about social identity. When its your favorite fandom, I don't think people need to declare it as adamantly as some furries do, but the urge to announce one's interests is understandable.

 

[RedDeadFred]

They disturb me and I will never understand them.