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Now I am sure we have all noticed that there are many accusations and false assumptions of the Furry Fandom. One being that it is considered that the Fandom is more concerned with [word censored]. Now my Dear darling Janey has already tried talking to a buddy of mine who is unconvinced (and it's so hard to say no to her). Now I come to you, I need a way to convince a friend of mine that the Furry Fandom is not a fetish but more of.... a way of living.

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Well furry fandom is in Wikipedia too, i LIVE Furry fandom, because it is really a way to live it, you know, it's like, some years ago, the people said that vehicles would fly, they called them insane people, now, the insane people is who says that vehicles can't fly, the same thing happens with Furry Fandom, someday, the insane people will be the people saying furry fandom isn't a way to live, because it actually is.

FurAffinity · Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 03 Feb 2010 Posts: 6190

the furry fandom is technically a fetish but not always a sexual fetish, its one of the lesser fetishes. its more of a interest in the way of living like nudists they have a way of living but you wont see them living in the colder climates cause they would need clothes to protect them or stay inside when its cold. a furry that wears a fur suit is some one who is more comfortable with their fur suit then the skin god gave them, a furry like me who is only a fur online is mostly interested in it for the artistic applications

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I'm more than that, well, I'm just like the Wikipedia definition of Furry Fundom, I'm jurst weird :s

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Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 12351

Hey, they're kinda cute. Anyone you know?

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Oh, this debate. I alternately find it amusing and tiresome. Lets just roll the tape and get it over with.

"This furry stuff is freaky sex fetishism!"
"No, it isn't. It's really more like a-"
"Oh, yeah? www.furaffinity.net"
"Well, that may be. However, that's just one example-"
"[url]us.vclart.net[/url]!"
"Okay... Well, just because it has sexual elements, it doesn't mean it is a sexual thing. Why, just because the fandom is a haven for not only homosexual and bisexual proclivities, plus rubs shoulders with additional fetishes including, but not limited to, [word censored], transformation, plushophilia, weight gain, infantilism, domination, hermaphrodites, [word censored], voraphilia, polyamory, hyper and hypophilia, and the occasional bit of pedophilia does not mean that the furry fandom itself is perverted, obscene, and amoral."
"...You're kidding right?"

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 12351

I have to agree with Kommy. We don't need this BS debate here.

Fetish, lifestyle, tomato, tomatoe. Who really gives a fuck?

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 1000

I don't think it is BS. It's a perfectly understandable argument. It's just that it really is impossible to make the furry fandom sound wholesome. Any furry should accept that plenty of highly visible people enjoy lots of freaky and, in some jurisdictions, illegal things and associate with your subculture.

The most you can do is compare it to disgusting people like Pastor Phelps being a part of Christianity. Yes, he and his family are foul and are self-identified Christians, but it's not like Christianity can kick them out.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 12351

Let me rephrase... We don't need the drama that this debate often causes.

I personally don't much care the "extremists" of the furry fandom. I have no direct problem with them, really. To each their own. But the furry fandom in general has acquired a very bad reputation from the majority of those who consider it a "lifestyle". It's all those who go around all the time wearing "fur-suits" and who talk and act in general (not RP) as if they actually are an animal that make so many people hate. This is not including the considerably high number of gays that apparently make up over 80% of furries. It's from these two "sections" of the fandom that time and again this debate wells up from and ultimately turns into little more than a bitch fight over just what the fandom is.

This board is a considerably social board and I don't think we need fights the likes of which are common place on certain image boards.

The debate may have it "legitimate" arguments, or may not. Regardless, I don't think this forum is the place to explore them. All I see if a whole lot of mud slinging and locked threads.

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kommy this is an off topic thing but i find it funny.. every time i see your name i wana say mommy XD theres some thing odd there XD

but ummm other then that i have nothing to say

Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 08 Sep 2010 Posts: 4141

I honestly meant no offense. I was just trying to bring up something I found some concern with is all.

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I can't really call it a lifestyle, but it is something that interests me greatly, save for the suit collecting thing. I'll leave that to the people who live and breathe that stuff.

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I don't think it's ever a good idea to try to "convince" someone to change their mind. People just want to naturally assume that they have the right view and get defensive when presented with something to the contrary. As it stands, the furry community is generally ill-perceived. Most people prefer the majority fallacy, "If everyone else says so, it must be true." Trying to force the issue usually only makes them more stubborn. Ease off and hope that over time they see the other side on their own and change their mind.

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/brigwyn/ · Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 04 Oct 2008 Posts: 2914

If one takes a purely academic point of view you can probably trace "Furry-dom" to a race memory of the prehistoric shamen and hunters that were our ancestors. Who dressed as the hunted prey and danced in order to 'magic' a succesful hunt.

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I don't try to understand the furry fandom. I think that Vanessa's work and this community(for the most part) is free from the more extreme fetishes and actions I've seen in other places.

I don't think of myself as a furry, though I like the work of certain artists, and I find it difficult to say exactly what I think the furry fandom is. I guess it's individual what people think is part of the fandom and what they find appealing about it. As such, I'm more interested in which aspects of the "furry fandom" people are interested in and why.

I wouldn't try to convince anyone to understand my interest in furry artwork. It's not a way of life for me or anything like that. It's just artwork that I enjoy looking at, and since the vast majority of it that I like is of the erotic kind, I keep it strictly to myself.

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I was not advocating trying to change anyone's mind, if anyone thought that.

It is just a matter of fact that anthropomorphised animals are pervasive in most of the worlds societies, from ancient Hindu to modern Mikey Mouse.

As to PBB, I am more attracted to the story line and excellent artwork then the furryness of it, but I certainly enjoy the furry as well!

How many have noticed the METAPHORS Vanessa has carefully introduced in her characters? Most of the animal chosen for the persona is for stereotype. While not Vanessa's creation, an obvious example Randy the Raccoon, and Raccoons are famous for being rascals. I think Vanessa (a favorite of mine) looks to also be a raccoons, and she also is mischievous.

Just a thought.

S!

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Yeah my own parents kind of bulk at the idea of furries. They still think that its all a sex fetish when most of it is not.

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Meh, I just do it for fun.

My parents don't even know, let alone care.

And my fionce thinks its a phase... Shocked

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