Furries are cool
Furries are cool
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My beef with furries is entirely my own derangement and has everything to do with beserkers. No I don't want to turn into an anthropomorphic bear, I want to embody a bear driven mad which is to say go apeshit hit someone with a yard implement and sacrifice them to an ancient god. If you call me a bear because of my weight and general looks I am going to hit you with a shovel and steal one of your kidneys.
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Its one of those niche communities that makes me smile - a lot of creativity there. They're my kind of critters (absolute geeks and nerds).
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Did meet disgusting furries too that painted my view in a not-so bright light. Oh well, I'm now just more cautious all-around.
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There are horrible people in every group. Unfortunately, it tends to be the worst offenders that stand out and define the rest.
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had a strange discussion a couple years ago with someone who insisted their fursona / fur suit outfit should be protected like LGBTQ rights have been enshrined. I took exception to that and still do because I do not want to see this as a lever to justify excluding / persecuting LGBTQ folk who have fought for a century for their rights. The way they put it was that 'stonewall' was for furry rights as much as LGBTQ rights and my mind said: yeah but they did the fighting, they've been in the struggle, you just showed up with a fox suit with crotch zippers.... my dawg...
I'm not advocating for their persecution, nor do I believe 'we have enough diversity and should close the door'.... but I still don't see it as an equivalent.
edit: and so instead of explaining, someone just downvotes. this isn't going to help your premise.
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i'm not a furry
i don't f/w spaces if i don't see furries around & welcomed
for one i want to know its a place people don't have to pass to feel safe
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I can respect that they deserve to be treated a humans and still find it gross. because it's gross.
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Gross? What's gross about it?
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Y’all smell under that suit.
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Mostly the related art. The amount of yiff communities I had to block to keep their porn out of my feed was surprising. I don't begrudge them their lifestyle. You want to put on something and have sex with somebody, go for it. I'm not into even 1%. The amount of erotic art that exists is beyond astounding to me. Meanwhile, I struggle to find active communities about Halloween, Lego, and various games I play. Granted, I haven't looked lately for new ones, but the ones I subscribed to previously aren't very active.
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Dedication and creativity
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I am sorry if this comes off as offensive to anyone, I'm not trying to be.
I don't get furries.
I also don't have to completely understand their ins and outs and complexities to know they're people who are worthy of respect for being other living people. (or non-people if they identify as non-people? Again I don't understand them as much as I probably should).
Regardless, shout out to all the furries out there who struggle with things I can't even imagine.
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I’m cool with roleplaying as an animal person, wearing a costume, the fetish aspect, whatever. Live your life.
I just don’t understand why they’ve all standardized to using the same terrible art style. It doesn’t look like a human, an animal, or even a sonic character (which I assume is the root), but a fourth thing. You can tell a furry by how they draw a normal human because of how deep set the habits are. Is there any other group as exclusively committed to an art style?
If I spent that kind of money on a wolf costume I’d at least want it to vaguely look like a wolf.
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Same terrible art style? If you are referring to actual stylings of how furry artists put lines and colours on canvas, then what you've done is seen a similar art style from two artists and then assumed the same for the rest.
If you're talking about actual character proportions, oh boy! First of all, Sonic does not even come close to being a majority inspiration for furries; a way closer guess would be the Argonians and Khajiiti from Skyrim. Secondly, the whole point of furries is their fascination with this world of anthropomorphic animals; "anthropomorphic" means "human-like", so of course the majority of furry characters would be animal races with human-like body proportions.
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That just isn't true. There are as many art styles in furry as there are outside of it. If you're talking about popular artists that's something different. But if you take one look around an artists alley you'll see more that's different than the same.
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I also don't have to completely understand their ins and outs and complexities to know they're people who are worthy of respect for being other living people.
💜 Big true.
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Simply put: It's a fetish.
It's pretty common to not understand why some people like the things they do in fetishes. Most people don't find feet attractive, but some people become just as aroused seeing feet as others do seeing breasts.
(Some furries will insist up and down that it's not a fetish, and those people are lying. They'll claim it's about a ton of different things, but it's pretty easy to tell. Because the ones who deny it are the ones who like to push their fetish onto others.)
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Because it is not just a fetish. We claim it's about a ton of different things because it is about a ton of different things to so many different people.
Some people identify as their fursonas and are comfortable in that skin; some people think they're reincarnations of certain animals; some people like to write stories about furry characters; some people think furries are cool; some people just have a favourite anthro character from games or TV shows; some people sexualize them; some people are in it for the community interactions and safe spaces; some people are in it for the lucrative furry art commissions.
None of those are mutually exclusive. One can find Veezara from Skyrim cool and hot. One can do art and enjoy the communal support without having a fetish for it. Being a fetish is just one part of furry culture.
To reduce an entire community to "it's just a fetish" is such a gross generalization. It's like saying "anime fans are perverts" just because a non-insignificant amount of anime feature sexualized depictions of girls.
Look, I understand if your immediate reaction to "furries" is "it's just a fetish"; there is a lot of furry porn out there! However, there's a problem with that view: you're so focused on the "furries just have a fetish" part that you're ignoring the mountains of regular human porn floating all around you.
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That's too simple, you could subtract everything adult from the furry fandom and quite a lot would remain. If you did the same to an actual fetish-based community you'd have little left, if anything.
Furries like anthropomorphic animals in multiple ways. People tend to focus on (and scandalize) the sexual part when sometimes it's just cute, funny or invokes all sorts of other feelings. It's a full-spectrum interest.
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As a response to you
Would you say that someone "thinking cats are cute and liking them" is just a fetish?
There's more dimensions of liking something and wanting to engage with it than just sexual
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So your definition of furry is exclusively someone who wears fur suits in public? Because that's not most people's definition of that term. But either way, is it just beyond you that someone could like doing something others see as weird for any reason other than sexual gratification?
Also, why do you use breasts are your "sexual but not fetishized" example here lmao are you under the impression that the western sexual fixation on breasts is not fetishistic
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The one bit I’ve recognized is that character designs with tails end up leading the eyes to the ass.
I’m no furry, but I recognize I’m an ass man.
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I don't get them either.
What I do know, however, is that most of the ones I've met seen like great people. The community seems extremely friendly and welcoming. They also seem to be intelligent and willing to step up to help.
Ultimately, if it makes them happy, and doesn't hurt anyone, have fun! I'm sure others look at me similarly, for my weird hobbies.
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Furries are an important indicator species for online spaces. They are a sign of a healthy platform.
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Look, you want the guy I know to fix your computer? Maybe deal with the wolf costume?
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"Cool" is taking it a bit far.
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why? i think they're cool, is there smth i don't know?
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Nope
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The furry community is one of the most accepting and open minded communities because they understand what it's like to be treated as outcasts and to be chastised for liking something that's completely harmless just because it's out of the norm. Most of the time it's not even a sexual thing for them, it's just something they like or something that makes them feel more comfortable out in public. It's a way to make their exterior to be exactly what they want it to be. So in that way I think they're pretty cool as a whole.
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In general that may be true, but not all furries are benevolent. Every community to have ever existed in history eventually gets some bad apples and gatekeepers when it gets to a certain size.
https://www.avclub.com/the-insane-story-of-a-furry-convention-undone-by-its-de-1798264086
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Honestly, it's the exact opposite. Furries are pretty hot.
Yanno, because of all the fur.
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I'm perfectly comfortable with taking it as far as "so long as it's all consenting adults, it's none of my fucking business, and I wish them all well."
If it's not my thing, no big deal. Some people like feet, and it's not my thing, so no big deal.
Even if I find it personally gross, again, consenting adults, no big deal. Some people are into watersports, but hey, so long as they're not leaving a mess or hurting each other, no big deal.
We've got enough trouble in the world without also trying to police what adults are doing in their goddamn personal lives. I yearn for a day in which more people could accept the "it's none of my fucking business" ethos.
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Yeah those fursuits look really hot to wear
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Yeah, I think it should be really warm in such costumes
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Unless they are Nazi or pedo furries.
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That goes for all people
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Have you met one? Truly curious.
Also turned on by system administrators doing sequential straight leg lifts while walking, can’t help it
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On some discord servers over the years I have. Especially related to any games with historical warfare involved like WW2.
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A certified furry classic uwu
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To be clear: I harbor no resentment against furries. They have a right to do their thing, I just don't want to be involved.
If furry porn didn't exist, then I might have less of a prejudice against furries and furry content. But as it stands, I will actively avoid anything with the furry aesthetic, because the porn is too weird for me to stomach. You will never be able to remove that association; the damage is done. When I see video games that I might otherwise like, but the art is furry art, I think, "ah, that's a shame. Won't be playing that."
I still have an old comment on my computer from Kongregate where I disliked a game just for having a wolf character.
I now hang out with furries more than other types of people.