What do you think about the Furry Fandom

[Black Arrow Officer]

I respect your right to freedom of expression, but I also have the right to stay the fuck away from you when your "dream girl" or "dream guy" is a humanized wolf.

Not to say that all furries are like this, but the girl that sat next to me in high school was a really creepy furry who was so desperate for love that she would draw pictures of muscular male animals to lick and kiss them. I'm not joking.

 

[theheroofaction]

Honestly, I wish more starting artists would draw in this style, not because I particularly inclined to it, but because it's awfully easy to get stuck making every human look exactly the same.

The "suiters" are okay, it is essentially cosplay after all.
The yiffers are just people who get off on something weird, It's kinda gross, but nobody gets hurt.

There are however the crazy few who think they're "animals trapped in human bodies". Interacting with them is relatively normal unless you bring that topic up.

Just one thing everybody can agree to hate is when people think they're somehow better than everyone else for their fandom of anthropomorphism.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

I'm a Furry.

Also a Brony.

Not ashamed. Though I will say that my interest in anthro art is almost entirely sexual, while my interest in MLP is entirely non-sexual, so I think it's safe to say that they come from two different places.

As awkward as it is to admit, this pretty much describes it.

I'm pretty certain that I only enjoy a very small fraction of what's available. I don't like all of it. There's some truly messed up stuff out there...can't unsee, but some of the art is admittedly appealing.

The fur suit thing is entirely beyond my realm of understanding. I do, however, accept that if it's two consenting adults then, well, they can do whatever they'd like so long as they don't forcibly involve me (by proxy or otherwise).

Fursonas? I don't engage in that either, yet I get it. Just another way to give form to one's passions I suppose. I'd put it in the same category as fan fiction, but with a more personal bent.

To reiterate: Some of it's cool (if you're into it at all). Some of it's all right. Some of it's fucked up. I don't advise folks to go anywhere near the later. Ever. So it's like any other fandom, or religion for that matter. The majority are "normal", and therefore ignored, while the minority are nuts, vocal, and given all the attention.

Frankly, just use your personal judgment on the matter.

 

[Freechoice]

Hmm, not sure if I should link this, but Lil-Miss-Rarity explains it [http://www.livestream.com/lilmissrarity/video?clipId=pla_643b8fa8-483c-4e4e-8d04-4a8232c85728&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb] straight from... wait for it... the horse's mouth.

Indeed [http://mirrors.rit.edu/instantCSI/]

1:12:15 and it goes on for two and a half minutes.

 

[Eomega123]

Whatever makes you happy. Live and let live, dude. You liking Anthropomorphic creatures doesn't infringe on anyone else's rights to like whatever they like, so it's all fine by me.

 

[RyoScar]

I'm fine with it, people like different things.

 

[DANEgerous]

Kinda hard to say, i have an FA account with porn but I understand the feelings that go beyond porn better. I would never suit or "yiff" and can not see the appeal but totally comprehend the outlet for an avatar at least if you do not literally believe yourself to be said avatar.

I suppose that is the best I can put it. I get it until it becomes literal, as long as it is a figurative alter ego i understand. I have to say in a world with complex video game it make it less odd to a degree. I mean once you attempt a relationship with Garrus all the rest come off as rather tame (Sorry to reference ME3) though the same could easily go for a Charr or Worgan of "Guild Wars" or "Wold of Warcraft" where in people do not mind marring their real life mate's avatar if you wanted to be more typical of the fandom in that at leas they have terrestrial analogs same goes for Khajiit and Argonians of "Elder Scrolls".

Frankly I find Edward the Fairy I MEAN "Vampire" of "Twilight" to be the most odd perhaps it is because i find him utterly lacking in personality and totally unlikeable on every level and thus he come off as a way to hide you necrophilia or perhaps a way to merge it with cowardice vein hollow twats.

 

[Vault101]

Ever since childhood (ie: in the land before the internet) I remember being really disappointed that there were no beast-races here on Earth with us...Where are the dog, cat, lizard and, bird people? I don't know much about the sea (nobody does) so I'm holding out hope that there are Mer-People somewhere but it really sucks that there aren't natural beast-people. Of course if there were, the term 'beast-people' would probably be on the same level of offensiveness as a certain N word.

When it comes to furries though, I prefer it when people are more like Inuyasha (ie: mostly human). I also love exotic skin tones, even if it means the entire epidermis is covered in a fine fur. I loves tails too...and have always wanted one. I don't really care for it sexually though (I have bondage for that)

chimpanzee's?...thats probably as close as you'll get

 

[Frozen Fox]

I find Edward the Fairy I MEAN "Vampire" of "Twilight" to be the most odd perhaps it is because i find him utterly lacking in personality and totally unlikeable on every level

That and he is like 500+ and hitting on high schoolers, pedopire.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

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chimpanzee's?...thats probably as close as you'll get

I've always wanted a chimp friend...I'd dress it up in people-clothes and teach it how to smoke cigars. It would also be called DK and my long-term goal would be teaching it to play Super Mario Brothers.

 

[TorqueConverter]

The internet is full of people into strange things. The anonymity of the internet allows these people to come out into a social setting. I think you people are weird. Bronies too. Big deal. There's all shorts of creepy shit out there. One stop to SA's weekend web will prove that in a hurry.

I find furries, bronies and steam punks to be the least disturbing and most benign of the group. You people are harmless.

 

[Snotnarok]

To sound very rude:
I think the furry community needs to stop making a big deal about their interest/fetish/whatever they do consider it. My friend came out as a furry recently and now everything revolves around that, she has to bring it up every 15 minutes in a conversation, refers to her boyfriend as her "furry wolfy boyfirend" brings it up on facebook constantly.

The reason people get so angry is that so many of the community come out and demand that others accept it and then get upset when others say they are uncomfortable. I for one don't care what someone is into but I'd like to have my face not shoved into it. I really don't care TILL it gets to the above where everything is furry and your depressed because you're broke because you blew it all on a fur suit. I get it's something you want to talk about but not everyone is okay or understands it.

Edit: If I sound angry or frustrated it's because this is literally going on this past 2 weeks.

 

[Macgyvercas]

My all time favorite anime character has the ears, tail, and fangs of a wolf. If I had a problem with furries, I'd be somewhat hypocritical.

 

[Elate]

Find it kind of weird to be honest. I mean, yeah furries can look cute, alright I can get the sexual side of it all, but when people start treating it as a way of life...?

Just, to put that into perspective, imagine people went around dressed as cardboard robots, but in a completely un-ironic and completely serious way, and it was their "way of life" the robo-fandom.. and would get very upset if you made any mocking comment about it... Yeah.

But, for the more, realistic? things like enjoying the art, I would say it isn't really any different from people who obsess over Japan, and anime in particular. Y'know, it only gets creepy/annoying when they start trying to use Japanese words in English sentences, and a love pillow...

-snip-

Pretty much all of that.

Don't care if you have a little furry avatar, but when you start bringing it up, out of context, or out of the blue, you just look like an attention whore.

I just plain don't get them. Having conventions and fandoms for anthropomorphic characters makes about as much sense to me as having conventions and fandoms for all the characters who wear skirts. It's a trait so secondary I just don't see the big deal.

Skirtcon, it's now happening, everyone has to wear one, EVERYONE.

 

[edgecult]

-shrugs- Pretty much the same as most people seem to be on here. -shrug- Don't dance it about in my face annoyingly and I wont bother you all about it. That's the true answer to peaceful coexistance after all.

 

[DANEgerous]

To sound very rude:
I think the furry community needs to stop making a big deal about their interest/fetish/whatever they do consider it. My friend came out as a furry recently and now everything revolves around that, she has to bring it up every 15 minutes in a conversation, refers to her boyfriend as her "furry wolfy boyfirend" brings it up on facebook constantly.

The reason people get so angry is that so many of the community come out and demand that others accept it and then get upset when others say they are uncomfortable. I for one don't care what someone is into but I'd like to have my face not shoved into it. I really don't care TILL it gets to the above where everything is furry and your depressed because you're broke because you blew it all on a fur suit. I get it's something you want to talk about but not everyone is okay or understands it.

Edit: If I sound angry or frustrated it's because this is literally going on this past 2 weeks.

No that sounds reasonable i mean no one comes out as S&M and talks about their happy whip lashy girl/boyfreind.

 

[Wintermoot]

I,m cool with them and coincidentally a friend of mine is a furry.

 

[RatRace123]

Not for me.

But I don't have many problems with it.

I will say that I find the fursuits to be very creepy. I'm sorry 'suiters, but I can't help it.

Of course I also find bondage creepy, so it could just be claustrophobia. The idea of being trapped inside a suit, latex or fur, just wigs me out.

Oh, and I don't mean to sound hostile, but the small percentage who believe themselves to be an animal trapped in a human body, yeah they're just crazy. I also think the same thing of people who claim to be vampires or na'vi. Basically anyone who doesn't believe themselves to be a (biologically speaking) normal human being. That's not fandom, that's a type of mental illness.

 

[Snotnarok]

To sound very rude:
I think the furry community needs to stop making a big deal about their interest/fetish/whatever they do consider it. My friend came out as a furry recently and now everything revolves around that, she has to bring it up every 15 minutes in a conversation, refers to her boyfriend as her "furry wolfy boyfirend" brings it up on facebook constantly.

The reason people get so angry is that so many of the community come out and demand that others accept it and then get upset when others say they are uncomfortable. I for one don't care what someone is into but I'd like to have my face not shoved into it. I really don't care TILL it gets to the above where everything is furry and your depressed because you're broke because you blew it all on a fur suit. I get it's something you want to talk about but not everyone is okay or understands it.

Edit: If I sound angry or frustrated it's because this is literally going on this past 2 weeks.

No that sounds reasonable i mean no one comes out as S&M and talks about their happy whip lashy girl/boyfreind.

That's kind of how I feel, regardless of how the person feels their interest IS strange and it's not like you can just bring it up in plain conversation. But they do, and then get annoyed when others look at eachother and kind of wince.