Gah. mhari summed it up.

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Bashing furries just for being furries isn't funny. It doesn't even make sense. So, people get off on the hott furry sexx (this seems to be the majority of the furry-bashing, so it doesn't really matter if it's true or not). Who cares? Would you attack somebody for another sexual interest that's completely consensual? Why on earth are you prying into their lives? Nobody's forcing you to convert to furry-dom. You're not being harmed by anybody else's group identity, you're not being attacked, so, please stop talking about it.

Or at least make your furry-bashing-argument reasonable. OMG! UR A FURRY! UR AN IDIOT AND UNDERSTAND NOTHING! isn't reasonable. OMG! UR A FURRY! UR A PURV! may be reasonable, though I don't see how it's anybody's business. Anything else... I don't see why it should come up.

Okay, now that this is over with, I gotta say I've never understood the point of furry-ness. I'm sure that now that I've posted this, somebody will show up to explain it so I can be enlightened.

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Well it looks like someone has to get in and 'splain

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So it may as well be me.

For most of use who ARE into it, big time, it's because we have an intense need to reject our own humanity.
In all the cases where people are able to articulate this, it comes from a combination of childhood sexual abuse and lonliness. For both myself and my partner, cats were as important or more important to us then humans during our childhood. For us it's not ABOUT getting dressed up in fuir suits and fucking, not in australia it's to @#$%^& hot to do that. It more acknowledgement that sometimes we need to give and recieve affection in a different fashion to that in which a normal human might.