Furries are cool
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
Edit: If you think these don’t heavily share a style (as compared to anthropomorphic characters from non-furry animated series, for example) then I don’t know what to tell you.
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You said you find fur suits gross though, those aren't inherently sexual.
That was someone else. I'm not the original commenter on this comment chain.
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Furries aren’t done form of media or object, they’re people.
"Furries" can refer either to people who are part of the furry fandom, or to the furry characters themselves.
It's kinda weird that that's the case, since usually, in furry spaces, the characters are referred to as "anthros" which is short for "anthropomorphic animals".
wrote last edited by [email protected]Well TIL. Doesn't really change the intent of what I said, but thanks for the knew knowledge.
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Y’all smell under that suit.
thats a plus for some
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youre allowed to not like furries but do me a favor and shut up because you trying to justify it is just digging your own grave
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youre allowed to not like furries but do me a favor and shut up because you trying to justify it is just digging your own grave
I never said I didn't like furries...
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I never said I didn't like furries...
im not talking about you
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im not talking about you
What are you talking about then?
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What are you talking about then?
the other comments on this post? doing the thing i am complaining about
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the other comments on this post? doing the thing i am complaining about
Sorry man I'm quite confused, are you saying people who don't like furries are trying to justify furries?
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Well, I hope so, because I do
Fursuits have magic powers? No wonder they're so fucking expensive!
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I'm not trying to gatekeep anything. I don't care what you think is cool. Furries aren't some form of media or object, they're people. I don't assume people are cool based on their hobbies.
That's quite pedantic. I didn't mean that as in "all furries are cool, including Nazis, fascists and other assholes", I meant more "I like the furry fandom".
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Sorry man I'm quite confused, are you saying people who don't like furries are trying to justify furries?
people who dont like furries attempting to justify not liking them, which in my opinion is a bad look, regardless of whether or not they say theyre 'ok' with furries
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people who dont like furries attempting to justify not liking them, which in my opinion is a bad look, regardless of whether or not they say theyre 'ok' with furries
Ohhhh, fair point. Sorry for assuming you had something against furries
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Ohhhh, fair point. Sorry for assuming you had something against furries
i am a furry
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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."
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]I think cats are cute and babies are cute, and never once has it occurred to me to role play as one? Or to actually invest in roleplaying as one?
I won't yuck your yum, but I think "there are more dimensions", doesn't mean it's NOT a common dimension.
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That was someone else. I'm not the original commenter on this comment chain.
When they asked them what they thought was gross you answered, so I would assume you share that opinion. Do you not?
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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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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).
