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I'm not sure if this has been asked or not, but do you walk around wearing a furry outfit? I thought that furries always walk around dressed as their animal part (or whatever)
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amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
Why should I care? Really.
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amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
It's a sincere question; I'm not sure why furries need to be any more "out" about their fetishism than anyone else. Do you know what my kinks are? You sure don't! And it's going to stay that way.
How on earth do you think furries could ever become "mainstream"?
Harvin87
The Youth
What kind of benefits do you get from being a Furry? I mean... do you get any intellectual benefits or what makes you keep on going dressing like Mega-Man?
azzaman333
meh
What's so different about being a furry compared to other hobbies/fetishes?
Thoughtful Thug
Deity
Mega-Man isn't a anthropromorphic animal. I guess you can say he is a bionic anthropromorphic machine or sumthin.
azzaman333
meh
People dressed up as japanese cartoon characters does offend me.
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
Furries will compare their "movement" to the civil rights movement and quote MLK Jr and Gandhi whenever someone makes fun of them.
azzaman333
meh
Because I can.
Tani Coyote
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No. Outside of our furriness, we are ordinary people, just like all of you. Just like everybody else who has hobby x is more or less an ordinary person outside hobby x.
Besides, it's pretty suffocating in a lot of costumes. Who in their right mind would wear one 24/7?
We have jobs, we have friends, we have relationships, etc. Thus, we logically do not go around dressed in fursuits all the time. Fursuiting as a "requirement" to be a furry is an unfair stereotype caused by the fact fursuiters are the first thing outsiders will spot, naturally.
You're running on the assumption that furryness is a "fetish" and not just an identity or hobby that's prone to take up fetishes... this is blatantly false.
To me/us, it's not really any different than saying we're a fan of x, or a collector of y. When I say "I'm a furry", I'm not talking about any of my fetishes whatsoever. I'm just saying that I'm a part of the community and a deep interest in humanoid animals.
I never said they could become mainstream.
I do think that, as we're exposed to the world however, people will eventually grow used to us. Same as they steadily grow used to all the other minorities after sufficient exposure. We're a relatively new thing, having popped out when the internet started more or less. We're trolled a lot... but that's because people aren't used to us, they consider us weird just like they do/used to feel about homosexuals, atheists, etc.
As the decades go by, the anti-furry sentiment will naturally dissipate.
Of course, as we face no legal persecution as many other minorities have, we do have a unique case.
I guess happiness benefits from simply participating in what you enjoy? Like any other hobby?
And it's been said that dressing up like Mega-Man is cosplay, not fursuiting. If MegaMan was furry himself however, he'd be a gray area between cosplay and fursuiting.
I don't know how many times I'm going to have to point out the fact there is no furry "Fetish." There are certainly many fetishes within the furry fandom, but it is not a fetish in itself.
I don't really know. I would suppose it's the fact we take a liking to humanoid animals that makes us distinct, as that's what makes us furries.
Like it or not, we are an identity. Tough cookies. I'll happily restate the reasoning for the identity/culture if you need it.
However, while we are socially persecuted(something that can't simply be done away with), we do NOT face the legal persecution that gays face, and that the poor, blacks, atheists, etc. have faced in the past.
Of course, if we ever do have legal persecution, you can bet I'll be on the side of reversing such a thing.
Who said anything about that?
I'll see you later tonight, dear!
fugazi
King
Are you sure its not an odd way of circumventing challenges one might be scary of, such as your first sexual experience? Find a secure platform you feel comfortable at and by that, circumvent situations in which your confidence might be found lacking?
It sounds like it takes a big mix of things to get 'there'. Not that Im saying that your fetish (or whatever it is?) is unhealthy, but it sounds like a great way to avoid things all of us must.
(and kudo's for being open about it, that takes courage in a world filled with bigotry)
It sounds like it takes a big mix of things to get 'there'. Not that Im saying that your fetish (or whatever it is?) is unhealthy, but it sounds like a great way to avoid things all of us must.
(and kudo's for being open about it, that takes courage in a world filled with bigotry)
Till
Adventurer
Why did it take so long for the furry fandom to be formed, given that anthropomorphic animals have been around for ages? Is it something about the animals that was lacking in earlier times, the sheer amount of anthropomorphic characters nowadays, the internet, or something else?
How international is the fandom? Would it be accurate to say that it is mainly restricted to the US?
How international is the fandom? Would it be accurate to say that it is mainly restricted to the US?
because they were liable to be thrown in asylums
Tani Coyote
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No... that doesn't sound like me at all.
I just identify with the community, and also have a strong obsession with anthro characters. 
I think hobby or interest is a better term than fetish, as not all furs are sexual about it by any means. There was once an intra-fandom war between a side that wanted to eradicate sex and whatnot from the fandom, and another side that felt it was fine those elements be preserved.
Being open about something online isn't courageous at all; being open about it in person is.
Besides the fact persecution would have been far worse in older days, I think it's also because the fandom is obscure enough people really couldn't connect to eachother for most of history. The birth of the internet and rapid communications allowed everyone to contact eachother and meet people with similar interests who you'd otherwise never encounter. From there, furmeets and furry conventions could be organised, etc. thus allowing an actual community to form, one connected by technology rather than by geography.
That said, there ARE furry neighborhoods, or at least apartment blocks.
I've seen furs everywhere. Norway, Britain, Italy, Canada, America... it's fairly international(conventions are held all over the world, in Germany, Canada, America, etc.). If a region has been exposed to humanoid animals and the internet, chances are there's going to be furries somewhere.
azzaman333
meh
What makes furries more important than cosplayers?
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