Furries - Page 2

Well, i dont want to be an intolerant ass (Before anyone even asks, my furry issues are like my goth,soccer, hipster and pokemones issues...bad experiences take over me), so I rather ask: Jesse, Im assuming there's a lot of diversity in the furry community, but is there any tension between members depending on the degree of their furryness, so to speak?

Another question -

I apologize in advance, because this will probably come out as glib and dickish, but I would seriously like to know. Among people my age, shaving or trimming the pubic area is popular, even perhaps required. No one likes a giant bush. Is that different in the Furrie community, or is it still more of a personal thing?

Actually, yeah, but not in the way you're thinking - it's not a "High Yella-Boojy-You Ain't Black Enough" type of issue, it's more based around boundaries and what falls under the definition of furries. For instance, there's a ton of debate over whether or not scalies (serpent-based ppl) should be considered furries (I say why the hell not; animal ppl are animal ppl), and how plushies (the ones who fixate on stuffed animals) fit in to the fandom (to which I say "fucking stuffed animals is just too absurd, even for this community").

Mezz - You misunderstand - furries like fur, not hair in general. I suppose there are some who dig hairiness in its own right, but its not common - most groom and tend to their body hair properly. I do.

How did you discover you were into this. I guess lots of people grow up thinking they are "different" and find a niche once they get older. But I have a hard enough time dating as is. How do you meet people with similar interests? Aside from national conventions, are there furry communities where people move to because they know there are others of their ilk? Do you date non-furries and learn about each others sexual preferences in the course of the relationship?

Well, it was always something I dug, but it was mainly through the internet that I became an active member of the fandom (damn you interwebs for giving us a way to organize!!!!). Meeting others is largely on the internet too, since we're otherwise normal ppl and don't have secret code words or hand shakes to distinguish ourselves with. And aside from cons, we also organize local furmeets so we can meet and hang out with each other. And yeah, I've heard of furs getting together and renting out apartment complexes to be around those similarly inclined. I haven't really dated since my marriage ended, but I dated non-furs prior to it and it wasn't a big deal - like I said, I'm not nearly as fixated on it as some others are in the community.

I see...guess the comunnity was far more complex than I thought...sorry if the comments said before seemed a bit to zealot and bigoted.
Im not taking back what i sadi about hipsters goths or soccer nutcases, though.

No prob. In fact, I find the complete 180 in tone this discourse took when I made my affiliation known kind of funny and surprising - considering all the ugliness earlier I fully expected to get creamed for it. Was anticipating it, even.

I guess we all learned something today - you guys that the fandom isn't just an oversimplified cesspool of creeps in costumes and I that other chewers can occasionally be rational and open-minded about shit that's considered pure poison to most.

Huzzah!

Well, personally that's why I questioned the placement of this thread in the Chewers Forum. Anything that gives insight to Chewers' personal lives is off-limits in terms of the usual internet snark IMO. No matter what our differences off-line, our love of CHUD makes everyone cool peeps to me. Most topics posted outside of this forum I take with a grain of salt and have my sarcasm stick at the ready.

So I don't get to be the new Fabfunk? That's a damn shame.

Now, I'm questioning your sanity.

Hahahaha

I have to be honest. I still don't quite get what being a "furry" stands for.
What do you do differently? Or how do you live? I thought it was the dressing up as animals thing. Apparently i was wrong on that one! Do you put make up on to make you look like a cat? And these are totally honest questions btw, i have no clue what this is.

When you get right down to it, it's pretty much glorified day-dreaming and wishful thinking - ppl who like to envision themselves as anthropomorphized animal ppl, and wish they were. Some wear the suits in an attempt to realize their vision, but most of us simply like to imagine we're anthros, and either draw them ourselves or commission artists to do it.

I don't do anything differently other than occasionally imagine myself as my fursona while I do every-day bullshit - other than that I'm just average joe doing average joe things.

When I go to cons I dress up to an extent (I wear my fursona's signature kilt and Christ Analogue shirt, and wear cat ears and a tail), but outside that I'm just Guy Who's Only Difference From You Or Anyone Else Is He Likes To Envision Himself As An Anthro-Alleycat.

The only thing I took seriously was its placement in this forum. The thread topic was ripe for Chewer snark...5 years ago.

Ive worked in anime/manga/comic/game stores, so believe me, Ive seen my share of mindblowing strange things. Just because you've just bough every single issue of "Omaha the cat dancer" in the store doesnt mean youre some deviant, it means you're a fan.
I guess my issues with furries are the same ones I have with every fanatism or subculture; its the obssesive, near mental members that creep me out a little (for example, my personal issues with soccer fans come from a family member having been beat up and hospitalized from a beating, his crime being wearing the opposing team's shirt outside the stadium; the ones with goths come from being FUCKING bitten by a goth girl...that hurt like hell, and it wasnt hot at all).
I mean, Im not naive enough to believe all furries/gamers/bondage fans are like the ones CSI or other Tv shosws show in that one episode every series has.

See, that's completely understandable, and those members of the community (who are thankfully a small minority) that take this nonsense that seriously I steer clear of. "Fursecution"? Fucking please. Those ppl truly are fucking nuts, and need some kind of professional help.

FREAK! Go fuck a beaver!

Was the thread getting a little too civil and grown-up for you Dom?

WAY too damn civil and grown up. Grown ups are boring, and people dressing up as animals for a fetish is a hilarious and outlandish thing. Of anybody furries need to have a sense of humour.

Fascinating thread, thanks for sharing Jesse!

I think I can sort of get into the furry mindset because I've always found people who are catlike or have catlike qualities extremely sexy. My current boyfriend is also obsessed with cats and is even named after a cat so that works out well for me. It's not too big a stretch for me to imagine having that attraction but a lot more so, to the point of wanting to dress up and act like a cat. It's even possible that if my life had gone differently and my attraction had been stronger I could have become a furry.

Maybe we all have a little bit of furry in us just like no one is supposed to be 100% gay or straight, who knows. As long as you're enjoying yourself and you aren't hurting anyone else it's all good.

Lucky Kinsey. If he were alive today he'd actually have to use a color coded three-axis diagram, instead of a scale.

Catwoman's pretty hot. Batman Returns Catwoman of course.

What the fuck were you people doing pre-internet? How many people felt the irrepressible need to dress up like animals beforehand and how many generally saw others doing it online and decided they wanted to make that their thing?

So are furries only cats? Can you be a furry horse? Or a furry Emu?

Pre-internet, pretty much the same thing other sub-cultures did - create 'zines.
I can pretty much guarantee that the internet has had a huge impact on the fandom, same as other groups, but as to the number of ppl who got into it through it I can't say. I'm sure for many coming across the fandom on-line was like a "light bulb" moment; it was for me.

And to clarify again - we don't all suit. In fact, only a tiny percentage of the community does; the rest of us just like to imagine ourselves as our fursonas and maybe have some art of it drawn. Common misconception.

You can be whatever the hell animal you want. I've seen both of your examples before (although the latter would fall under the sub-group of "feathers", who like scalies are debated as to whether or not they constitute a "furry"). I went with cat because I like cats, and feral alleycat in particular because it fits my personality.

"suiting" "Fursecution" "scalies" "fursona"

You guys have a fucking Babelfish plugin yet? And did my mentioning fish make you hungry?

Oh Jesus.

My back hair sometimes lets me pretend in bed that I'm in that campfire fuck scene from The Howling, but I'm not superserious about it.

The sketches are nice, but this thread needs photos in the worst way.

I wonder how many "furries" play MMO games such as WOW and UO.

ALL of them.

Except billy, of course.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/43769/detail/

What if I wanted my fursona to be a naked mole rat? Or a hairless cat?

Are there any Cryptozoological furries? "I'm in IT, but on weekends I am El Chupacabra!"

Would a Sasquatch furry be, by nature, camera-shy?

Not camera shy enough. Furry roleplaying probably accounts for at least a third of the episodes of Monster Quest.

Just got to ask... what? Just, what? In what way are you like a feral alleycat? Have you ever seen a feral alleycat? They are not civilized, they are not nice. They are not cute, fluffy or, god forbid, sexy. They are little angry balls of violence.

This right here is the problem I have with furries in general - it's a crazy romanticized illusion of what animals are like. Most of them are vicious, nasty critters who spend their lives doing things to each other that you wouldn't think of. If you wanna be a cat go torture some baby birds - sure you'll be a fuck up, but at least you'll be a fuck up who knows what they're talking about.

*grabs popcorn*

Cleo's in good company.

Wow, someone really really doesn't like animals.

Cleo's just the gift that keeps on giving.

This fucking thread...

Obviously there are furries that are harmless but then you have to wonder about the types that get their kicks looking at pictures of anthropomorphic animals having sex. What happens there? That self realisation must be so depressing. Do they one day look at the human body and find it bald and boring but then also squirm at beastiality due to it being real? As a whole the furry is fetish escapism at a ridiculous level, your talking about getting off on interspecies sex or aspects of it? You can try to understand it but that doesn't make it right.

I can't see the appeal of the role-playing aspect. How does wearing a tail heighten your sexual experince? When they go whole-hog is the costume lined inside, i can understand the sensation of fur against skin being a turn on but then only one will feel that. If both of you are wearing costumes then wears the pleasure in that? At least nurse / copper uniforms have two feet planted in reality, it's fantasy but the themes behind it are ones that we can all relate too through non-sexual or sexual interactions

Also how anyone could call a child a furry is beyond me, for them its play just like dressing up as a power ranger or fairy. An adult doing that in his spare time is for perverse thrills.

Look, beyond what I've already said, I really can't explain it - it's really either something you get and are into or don't and aren't. Simple as that.

Not into it? That's fine.

Wanna poke fun at me for being into it? That's fine, too - as I've said before I don't take it that seriously.

Cleo - Yeah, there's definitely a lot of romanticizing going on, but what I said is true, on account of my being a bitter, unpleasant, hateful crank. It fits.

And here ya go Phil -




That's what I look like pretty much all of the time. No suit, no ears, no tail - just really, really tired.

Fuck that, I want to see the tail!

And just like alot of us, furries care about low carb diets.

Paging Dr. Moreau...

Not a pet owner huh.