What is your opinion on furries?

[Gauthier]

I mean how is someone dressing up as an animal any different from those times I've dressed up as a comic book character?

Something about cosplayers not actually believing they're superheroes, no doubt.

[Gauthier]

To be fair, you can say that about most things in life. Drink, poker, football, Harry Potter, politics and so on. If you do something in moderation it's okay, but when it gets out of hand - trouble!

Can you be a moderate murderer?

Masturbation. All you're murdering are potential people.

[Purple Empire]

I mean how is someone dressing up as an animal any different from those times I've dressed up as a comic book character?

Sometimes I want a Darth Vader custume. He's really bad-ass.

[DAFT Universe]

I mean how is someone dressing up as an animal any different from those times I've dressed up as a comic book character?

Something about cosplayers not actually believing they're superheroes, no doubt.

Furries don't think they are the animal. That falls under another term I cannot remember.

[Vassenor]

To be fair, you can say that about most things in life. Drink, poker, football, Harry Potter, politics and so on. If you do something in moderation it's okay, but when it gets out of hand - trouble!

Can you be a moderate murderer?

"You went to murder rehab?"

[Zombie Swarms]

Something about cosplayers not actually believing they're superheroes, no doubt.

Furries don't think they are the animal. That falls under another term I cannot remember.

Well, that's whole new level and another story.

[Vassenor]

Something about cosplayers not actually believing they're superheroes, no doubt.

Furries don't think they are the animal. That falls under another term I cannot remember.

Otherkin. And we don't talk about that.

[Kitaba]

See I don't mind people dressing up as the animals but there's a line between "Just for fun" and "I'm going to wear this and make a idiot out of myself and giving others a bad name"
Like seriously, it's fine for you to dress up as your favorite creature I'm fine with it, but when it gets a bit out of hand then there's a problem

To be fair, you can say that about most things in life. Drink, poker, football, Harry Potter, politics and so on. If you do something in moderation it's okay, but when it gets out of hand - trouble!

See, here's the thing that stuff most people know about, but dressing up as the animal people don't really care/ dislike it unless it's a team mascot. But some people take it way too far..

[Valaran]

He praised it.

Oh woops

Yeah lol, I really liked that series.

[Engleberg]

No thanks, I don't like em' at all.

[Malshan]

Furries don't think they are the animal. That falls under another term I cannot remember.

Otherkin. And we don't talk about that.

To clarify, and to repeat my previous post, you are all confusing the spiritual belief of therianthropy with otherkin. Otherkin is a specific subset of therianthropy in which the therianthropes associate themselves with a species or race that is not typically regarded as "real". IE, elves, gryphons, dragons, etc. Creatures typically found in fantasy works.

Therianthropy refers to the belief that one:
--Shares an unusual connection to a non-human species or
--Is a non-human in a human's body.

And, before we start with the usual "these people are mentally ill" routine, clinical lycanthropy (the medical term for those who fully believe that they are/are transforming into an animal) is a separate term reserved for those people who allow their beliefs to become delusions and act upon those delusions. The results of this are typically detrimental to the health of the afflicted as well as those around them.

Therianthropes are separate.

[Scandinavian Nations]

I mean how is someone dressing up as an animal any different from those times I've dressed up as a comic book character?

People cosplaying batman don't generally claim to be doing it for any reason other than simple theatrical entertainment - at the end of the convention, they hang the suit up till the next one, and in the meantime debate, as themselves, some minutiae of comics lore.

This stands in contrast to furries, which generally claim some much deeper reason for their condition, develop a "fursona", and consider their being furry as part of their identity rather than just an interest.

[Neanderthaland]

People do all sorts of weird sex things that don't appeal to me.

But that's none of my business.

[Khalisako]

Can you be a moderate murderer?

Masturbation. All you're murdering are potential people.

One of those sperms could be the next hitler or stalin tho, so obviously, it's for the best.

*nods*

[The Serbian Empire]

I am ambivalent to them as a whole. Know several of them, they're good people. But there's also a few bad eggs amongst the furries.

[Oil exporting People]

No thanks, I don't like em' at all.

This.

[Barunia]

What makes you say that furry is decadent? I've never heard the fandom described like that before.

Grown-up peoples wearing animal suits and imitating them as part of a sexual fetish is something I would definitely call decadent.
If it's the use of the term itself that you find weird, it might simply come from the fact that I'm thinking of the meaning the French term "décadent" carry but in the context I guess another term I could have used that would have been more fitting is "degenerate" tho it would have had a way more judgemental connotation that I'm not necessarily intending.

Some people think anything other than post-marital, missionary, baby-making sex is decadent.

Hé, can you really blame me for loving vanilla and having an impregnation fetish? Both are way healthier than furry one are. :^)

If furry is a sexual fetish, then I'm not a furry. Hell, I go to furry conventions, I wear ears and a tail, I'm making a fursuit, I buy furry art and occasionally draw it. But of course, because I don't engage in sexual activity while wearing ears, or buy furry porn, I can't be a furry, right?

Yeah, sure, I can understand your use of the word decadent to describe a sexual fetish. But what you are describing is not the furry fandom, so calling the fandom decadent in that sense does not fit.

[Vassenor]

Grown-up peoples wearing animal suits and imitating them as part of a sexual fetish is something I would definitely call decadent.
If it's the use of the term itself that you find weird, it might simply come from the fact that I'm thinking of the meaning the French term "décadent" carry but in the context I guess another term I could have used that would have been more fitting is "degenerate" tho it would have had a way more judgemental connotation that I'm not necessarily intending.


Hé, can you really blame me for loving vanilla and having an impregnation fetish? Both are way healthier than furry one are. :^)

If furry is a sexual fetish, then I'm not a furry. Hell, I go to furry conventions, I wear ears and a tail, I'm making a fursuit, I buy furry art and occasionally draw it. But of course, because I don't engage in sexual activity while wearing ears, or buy furry porn, I can't be a furry, right?

Yeah, sure, I can understand your use of the word decadent to describe a sexual fetish. But what you are describing is not the furry fandom, so calling the fandom decadent in that sense does not fit.

But that one episode of CSI said it was a sexual thing. Are you saying TV would lie to us?

[Zombie Swarms]

If furry is a sexual fetish, then I'm not a furry. Hell, I go to furry conventions, I wear ears and a tail, I'm making a fursuit, I buy furry art and occasionally draw it. But of course, because I don't engage in sexual activity while wearing ears, or buy furry porn, I can't be a furry, right?

Yeah, sure, I can understand your use of the word decadent to describe a sexual fetish. But what you are describing is not the furry fandom, so calling the fandom decadent in that sense does not fit.

But that one episode of CSI said it was a sexual thing. Are you saying TV would lie to us?

Nice joke.
But if you are saying this seriously, then TV actually is lying to us pretty much.

[Aelex]

If furry is a sexual fetish, then I'm not a furry. Hell, I go to furry conventions, I wear ears and a tail, I'm making a fursuit, I buy furry art and occasionally draw it. But of course, because I don't engage in sexual activity while wearing ears, or buy furry porn, I can't be a furry, right?

Yeah, sure, I can understand your use of the word decadent to describe a sexual fetish. But what you are describing is not the furry fandom, so calling the fandom decadent in that sense does not fit.

And yet all those things you do like going to furry conventions, making fursuits and buying and drawing furry "art", you are doing them out of a desire to fulfill this fetish of your. Whether you jack off to it or not really doesn't matter that much on you actually having a fetish for said thing.

And honestly, I would say that both are as decadent.

[Aelex]

But that one episode of CSI said it was a sexual thing. Are you saying TV would lie to us?

This joke could have almost been "funny" (at least compared to what you have accustomed us to) if 1) I was still watching T.V for anything but the news and 2) this show actually got broadcasted on French television.
Sadly, neither are true which means that it fall flat, as usual.

[United Bosna i Hercegovina]

[Soled]

Oven-dodgers.

[Hammer Britannia]

(Image)

For gods sake, you had One Job... One Job.

[Vassenor]

But that one episode of CSI said it was a sexual thing. Are you saying TV would lie to us?

This joke could have almost been "funny" (at least compared to what you have accustomed us to) if 1) I was still watching T.V for anything but the news and 2) this show actually got broadcasted on French television.
Sadly, neither are true which means that it fall flat, as usual.

This may come as a shock, but not everything I say is about you. Particularly when I respond to a general complaint about people assuming this is a sexual thing with a comment about something that may have contributed to the creation of that schema.