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"furry agenda".

Hi. My name is ChristianPatriot. Dont' you mean homosexual agenda!?

/dull reference

Of course I do. I plan to convert every single user on this forum into rainbow crusaders. I totally don't respect straight people at all, in fact I think it is imperative that there be nothing else but homosexuality in the world. Even for plants.

lol, see, now if that had been posted in a furry forum of some sort, there would be an immediate "oh noooo u dint" followed by "not all furries are gay" and then references to sociological studies that point out that there appears to be a much higher proportion of gay furries than there are gay people in general until the original topic is pretty much forgotten. It won't be until at least post 100 that somebody comes along and says "hurrrr u got troll'd so hard back there".

Oh, and:

You know, Strop, I really don't think a plunger is the best tool for what you're trying to do there.

Well, how about you come up with a better idea then!!!11!1!11one

"hurrrr u got troll'd so hard back there".

Another reason for keeping out of forums, huh?

Well, how about you come up with a better idea then!!!11!1!11one

A tied up school girl with a bunch of kittens in her lap? I have heard it should help? <As cuteness increase so does the likelihood of being horribly, HORRIBLY r.ped... By giant tentacles>

I don't quite understand the concept of "furryies" Though I was able to infer from the previous posts that it is role play as animals? or something? could someone put this in laymen terms for me?

Wiki Fur
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FurAff

Basically: People in the fur fandom.
Also: Anthropomorphic animal (slang expression)

A Furry/Fur
More Furries/Furs

DOT DOT DOT.....sadly im one of the few straight converts

Happily we don't give a hoot about whether you're a straight, gay, bi or whatever fur, nor do we care how this might reflect upon the fandom as a whole. As you can see, most people on this particular forum don't even know what the heck furry is.

So, how about a little more detail straight from the horse's mouth? :P

* All furries are interested in anthropomorphism.

* Not all those who are interested in anthropomorphism are "furries".

* "Furries", properly speaking, are those who not only have an interest in anthropomorphic characters and identify with the community that calls themselves furries. The reason there is so much confusion is because the definition is, well, metacritical.

* Therefore there's actually a distinction between those who are "merely interested in anthro etc." (i.e. the "I'm not a furry I just draw them&quot and those who are furry...and then those who don't care whether you call them furry or not ("I just do what I do, alright!?&quot This won't at all relate to this forum, though.

So to answer questions:

Furries are people who like to draw animal/human pictures?

Many furries do like to draw anthropomorphic subjects. The majority of the fandom runs on graphical content, it seems.

But from the above, there are those who also draw anthropomorphic subjects who refuse to call themselves "furry" because they don't participate in the community.

Or even dress up as animals?

Some do- this is known as fursuiting. The fandom as a whole is a little sensitive about this point due to fursuiting being the major identifiable feature of the community thanks to the media, but is in fact not a significant part of the community.

That said, if you fursuit and you're not a professional children's entertainer or the guy who played Chewbacca, it is almost certain that you're involved in the furry fandom.

What do furries actually do when they meet?

Furmeets are best thought of in normal community terms. There's really nothing particularly unique about them apart from the actual participants. It could range from simply meeting for movies and dinner to a full-blown furry-themed convention. Either way you can be fairly sure that conversation will revolve around internet-related and furry-relevant topics. I will withold further commentary on this point as I'm biased >_>

The other feature of "furry" that I'm going to point out here is a fondness of really inane puns which are funny if you're in the know, but terribly confusing if you're not.

Of course I do. I plan to convert every single user on this forum into rainbow crusaders. I totally don't respect straight people at all, in fact I think it is imperative that there be nothing else but homosexuality in the world. Even for plants.

XDD

"hurrrr u got troll'd so hard back there".

Who said that? >.>

stange people/furs/anthros

I like how you so casually threw 'strange people' in that grouping. XD

I've got this friend who is a complete furry hater. I kind of knew what furry and anthro was before now but I think this thread helped fill in the gaps.

Yes, Strop just managed to scare me a bit....

Lol, I just saw how big my post really was. These days I try to avoid walls of text and hack-and-slash responses but eh...sometimes...OH WELL MOAR HACK&SLASH TIEM! >:O

I was just stating, finding a female mate is hard

Oh I see now!

"30. There are no girls on the internet." xDDDD

Actually I lie. While the internet (and the furry fandom) are predominantly male it's increasingly easy to find female participants (who are actually females), as well as females who are interested in anthro but aren't furry because they don't live on teh internetz. You just need to know where (and how) to look. I suggest playing really girly-themed MMOs and RPGs based on horses and wolves and the like...actually, don't do this with a view to picking up, that's just creepy <_<

My real suggestion would be to talk about furry without actually saying "furry". Because these days as keeton demonstrates, it's easy to say "furry" and "strange people" in the same sentence. Actually, better yet, if you know somebody's a fur, try talking to them about something other than furry. In my experience, they may find it pleasantly surprising.

Disclaimer: Strop the ninja horse did, not surprisingly, hail from the land of teh furry. Given that he is no longer active in the fandom, these accounts cannot be said to be wholly accurate nor without bias. However, Strop is not a "burnt fur" :P

Separated this out into another post because it's a different topic:

I've got this friend who is a complete furry hater

Most common reasons given for being a furry-hater:

* "Furries are gay"- results in drama over just what proportion of furries are homosexual, or rather, not straight.

* "Furries dress up as animals and have orgies"- the CSI episode Fur Will Fly is popularly blamed for this misconception. No comment given on those who actually do dress up in fursuits for the purposes of...sexual exploits.

* "Furries believe they're not human"- this hits at those who subscribe to totemism, therianism and a range of other beliefs in either a spirit animal or that they are another animal. Note that this is not the same as the belief that you are in fact a dragon or some extra-terrestrial or completely mythical creature- that would be more appropriately termed otherkin. Furries and otherkin have shaky relations.

* "Furries are in it for the porn"- The Internet is for Porn. The furry community just appear to be more open about it, but I'm not going to comment any further on that other than to say this point is a significant source of burnt-furs. Subsequently-

* "Furries ruined my childhood cartoons"- no they didn't, rule 34 did.

* "Furries are closet animal molesters"- a particularly sore point given that for reasons I am not entirely sure of, global sentiment (and jurisprudence) is trending against bestiality, zoophilia etc. despite the intellectual world going the other way. Possibly the biggest cause of rifts within the furry community between those who like to maintain ideological integrity and those who are concerned about public perceptions.

* "Furries like to think they can draw but they can't"- the internet is a heartless beast that does not give points for effort. But people who like to big-up themselves by saying they can draw when they obviously can't is hardly endemic to furry.

This point is a little larger than that, and relates to the whole &quotorn" issue. I am aware that there are movements within furry to either "clean up" the issue or create "superior" art and it has to be acknowledged that there are those within the community who are actually very good at what they do (regardless of whether they draw porn *cough*Adam Wan*cough* or not). On the flip side, if you want to see art politics in action, just look at DeviantArt, in particular the dailies.

* "Furry is dramaland"- the vast majority of furries are teens. I might add that the same applies to emos and goths and the like. Seeing a pattern?

Adolescence is dramaland!!! But I have no comment on those who continue to generate teh furry drama despite being of an age that no longer ends in -teen.

That's about all I can think of now. In short, as with all generalisations, most of them are misleading but there are probably examples for which the statement is true, to varying degrees. Also, the reason for hating is either to decrease one's own inferiority or because they had a really really bad run-in, like an Atheist getting kidnapped and taken to a Neo-con Charismatic church service.