Furries. Yes. No. Indifferent.

POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Friday, April 2, 2010 11:45
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AURAPTOR

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 2:31 AM

Please excuse the above video, I'm not so much asking as to what is thought about this particular " display" , but merely using it as an example, of the idea in general.

I find them to be....well, I'll reveal later.

What say you ?

Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor

Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 2:20 PM

Can't see the video, but I think you're talking about people who are into anthropomorphs?

Well, there's different sorts, it runs the gamut from intelligent animals to human girls with a cat ear headband in their hair and cat tails pinned to their pants. I have a few friends who are into this. Generally any furry will tell you that the ability to consent is vital if they feel any sort of... attraction to this kind of stuff. A lot of them are even still attracted to distinctly human sex traits in the anthropomorphs, like one of them is most assuredly a breast guy.

Sometimes it's just people looking, sometimes it's people dressing up for cosplay... Sometimes for, um, yeah. ._. But, whatever, you know? If emphasis is explicitly on consent, who cares if they wear some kind of suit to mess around? It's none of my business. Generally, it seems like a harmless fantasy. Sometimes the fantasy can be so strong they feel no attraction for humans (or even humans in suits), which can interfere with them connecting romantically to people or having families, but that seems either like a choice or maybe even something they can't control, like orientation or something.

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 2:45 PM

Sorry,but here's another example

And yes, that's what I'm referring.

You twice used the word " consent ", which I kinda find curious.

Is it a common issue which is brought up ? I can't understand that anyone would be FORCED into participating in 'Furry' activity.

Now, I've been to DragonCon, and enjoyed watching folks gear up in a wide array of costumes, to show their devotion to favorite shows and characters. But this seems to be something quite a part. Anyone can slap on a Jayne hat and a Fighting Elves T-shirt, to tell the world you're a Firefly fan. Heck, I see that as being on par with sports fans wearing jerseys of their favorite teams.

Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor

Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 2:56 PM

Well, consent and intelligence in anthropomorphic renditions is vital for the furry fandom, because it sets it apart from beastality. They're pretty careful to say they're not into beastality, probably because what they're into could be so easily misunderstood. Maybe there's a reason for them being a little defensive. It's not for me to say, really. I don't care so long as there's no animal abuse.

As for the above, I can't say it has much interest for me. I try to be tolerant though, especially since does seem harmless. It's just being a bit creative with the original medium.

What if you think of it like a crossover? You know that Disney Robin Hood movie with all the foxes? It'd be pretty easy to imagine Mal as a more surly Robin Hood, and Jayne as a more surly Little John, and etc. I bet someone's done that already. This is like, the next step after that, where it's wolves instead of foxes, because archetypically in storytelling wolves are thought to be more rebellious and dangerous than foxes.

STARTROOP

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:14 PM

Indifferent, it doesn't blow my skirt up so to speak but that doesn't mean anything. I am pretty garden variety myself ;-) Have fun and don't disturb the traffic ;-)

MINCINGBEAST

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:37 PM

Absolutely NO. And I'm willing to be good money that "Rappy" is a hard-core furry.

Furries would be negligible, as opposed to loathsome, if they could keep from comparing people with anti-furry sentiments to racists and misogynists. They put their questionable taste out there, and the BAWW whenever anybody wrinkles there nose and frame it as a human rights issue. Sorry, pal, your desire to dress up in a wolf suit and "yiff" is not equivalent to someone's african american ancestry, or sexual orientation. Not to mention that their "fandom" or fetish collects bottom feeders of all sorts, including baby furs, diaper furs, vorophiles.

LET THE FURSECUTION BEGIN!

EDIT: neglected to mention that i am angry at them for retroactively poisoining my childhood by making me suspicious of all representations of anthropomorphic animals, including the Bernstein bears.

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:59 PM

Granted on the sort of people it attracts. They're not all bad, but some of them, yikes.

But honestly, should the bad apples be allowed to represent the entire community? Most child molesters actually prefer adults and are straight, yet no one gives straight people crap about it, or calls straight people amoral because of those few that behave badly, or assumes that just because some of them do it, all of them are into it.

I base my moral judgments on whether harm is caused. Most furries, they aren't causing harm. Those that do, well, Firefly says something about a special hell that seems apt here.

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:05 PM

I just thought of something horrifying, and hilarious. I will spoilerize it to protect the more fragile sorts such as mincingbeast here.

Select to view spoiler:

In the comic book Better Days, Mal does mention having some sort of bizarre fetish... He was most likely kidding, but who knows? Maybe this lady who draws Wolf Mal is ahead of the game. XD

AVERYFINECOMPANION

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:12 PM

I find it very creepy....

I never liked it when our big damn heroes were drawn like that.

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:15 PM

It was a little off putting when Two first posted links to Furry-fly here. But I'm adaptable, I've moved on to acceptance through humour at all the strange things us humans get into.

As long as there's consent (which no, diaper (?) and baby fur would not qualify), then I've got no beef. I'm not necessarily going to go intentionally looking for this kinda stuff, but I can control my recoil response.

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