Gah. mhari summed it up.

[conuly]

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.

Comments

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

'Scuse my ignorance, but what is a furry?

[adiva_calandia]

Seconded. I know little bits and pieces, but I'd like to hear a definition that isn't tainted by ignorance (I thought furries were people who had sex in animal costumes, but see? That's ignorance).

[conuly]

That's really where all the hostility comes from, which I really do not get. Even if furries are all people who have the hott costume sexx, who gives a? Does it really hurt anybody?

[adiva_calandia]

Exactly. One guy I know says, as long as it's consenting, and not with children or animals, do whatever you want in the bedroom.

But I'm still not sure what the definition is.

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people who do the costuming thing, and most of them wouldn't dare do anything like that in their costume, as the costumes cost hundres to thousands of dollars to make.

Usually the ones who do have the Worst. Costumes. Evar. Seriously.

[conuly]

Usually the ones who do have the Worst. Costumes. Evar. Seriously.

Well, really, who wants good costumes to get covered in... ick?

[adiva_calandia]

*laughs* So what do they use the costumes for? Role-playing? Or just "This is how I feel comfortable"?

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

They just look really cool. :) If I could afford it,. I'd make one.

[adiva_calandia]

Hey, sounds good to me. *grin*

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

A furry is someone who likes anthropomorphic animals. Not all fursonas are actually furry, there are lizards and fish and birds mixed in with the rest. There are some who enjoy dressing up as their fursona in a fursuit for conventions and stuff, and there's the minority side who like hot kinky furry sex.

http://hmo.deviantart.com/ - This dude has some really nice furry art in his gallery =D

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

Ah. Very interesting. Never heard of it before, but very interesting. Thanks for enlightening me!

[adiva_calandia]

Oh, okay. A furry is someone who likes anthropomorphic animals. That's me, then! *grin*