That's pretty much the general view of anyone who doesn't at least know someone who's a furry and asked some simple questions about what's the appeal. xD

It seems to be hard to differentiate between the many different things. That would be like I would say that every person on the world come from the exact same country. But I think these people you are talking about are generally unable to see diversity of any kind

Your telling me, I had to explain that a furry doesn’t mean beastiality to someone before. Literally two separate things…. They were so overwhelmingly convinced about it though. Sad what others will drill into others minds.

godddd switching to twitter was a shitty move for me cos i've seen so many comments from angry people talking about how lewding Ankha from Animal Crossing is the same as "drawing your pets with boobs" lmao

Yep, just be true, it’s on the internet after all.

"Drawing your pet with boobs" sounds braindead. This is why I avoid twitter.

It certainly is. The Generalization sucks, especially when some of those kinks are a complete turn-off and just not for me.

So I know how annoying that is. Its pretty hypocritical especially if everyone in the room watches regular smut.

People talking shit about furries without realizing they helped develop the COVID vaccine or the fact the internet is being held together by furry IT specialists.

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On that note

Furries, like any group is not a homogenous group, you get a massive variance in people and personalities, some are fucked up little wankers, others are brilliant and kind hearted people. There is just a lot of stigma around the term "furry" as its always the negative aspects of a group that draw the most attention and the fucked up furries do some really messed up stuff which ends up tarring the rest of us.

It is annoying when people do that though, Its most frustrating in people who belong to fandoms that also have a terrible reputation but claim its bias and most of them aren't like that, hypocritical much?

Furry stigma...
Furry stigma KNOT IN YOUR ASS, AMIRITE BOIS?

hell yea

probably like 50% of all furries are minors it's insane that people have such a gross view of us when most are children

ever since the csi episode in the 2000s when middle-class whites learned from underneath their rocks what furries are, they have assumed all furries are total freaks

furries have not done anything in particular to dissuade this notion mind you

i like how the majority of normies like to live off assumptions and attempt thinking FOR others

like holy shit leave me aloooooooone i don't need to be labeled and told how i should or should not think, hahaha

Imagine life where people dont go out of their way to be nosy and then criticize everything they dont understand

I know, right?

It is the problem of being a part of the "Other." Any group that is not a part of the normal world, is looked upon with diversion, and everything/anything that can widen the gap between them will be done. We become scapegoats and safe targets for ridicule. And it is not like some of us don't make it easier for them to do so either.

I have a personal way I define a furry, and it's not really just being into the porn and art, it's more of a lifestyle and activity thing (like fursuiting). I personally can't say I'd ever fursuit or identify so hard with a sona of mine that I'd believe I'm what they are (though thats going into otherkin territory). I kinda set fanart of anthro characters in the same place as other characters, I never had that barrier or repulsion of "ew it has a wolf face" some people seem to have. Just give me a character with a nice rack and I'm charmed. :T

But Im also not one for labels in the first place, which might be a controversial opinion these days. I'm just into porn and making silly animal people characters. Bout it :u People who look at it all with repulsion were probably conditioned somewhere with that in mind, and associate things way too hard to make it look bad.

It goes for any fandom, unfortunately, you're a brony you get pooped on, you a homestucker you get pooped on, anime here etc. There are unfortunately cringelords who are renown in each one that gives these bad impressions of everyone.

I know a few people like that. It's sad because furries who do like that stuff, are just trying to find like minded folk who like that stuff too. They just don't want to feel alone and shitty for liking eccentric kinks.

Yeah, you tell 'em. We're definitely not all into *Checks notes on hand* vore? Oh fuck.

i agree, i'm not into that sort of thing either, so to have someone assume something like that of me, well i don't appreciate it.

A lot of it is due to what popular media shows. For most people, the first time learning about furries would have been that CSI episode.

My aunt believes this, she looks down on me and thinks I'm some kind of monster.

And she's in a cult!

oh my godddddd

You know...I want to agree, but then I log into FA and what feels like the majority of the time I do see some weird shit right off the bat...Sometimes literally, depictions of actual shit...Or sometimes I'll notice a banner ad for plush animals with "special modifications" pop up from time to time...So honestly I can't really blame anyone for having uncharitable perceptions of furries...Much in the same vain as anime fans.

We're not all into the same thing to be sure...But...We are all kinda weird.

Yup, almost every fandom has a nasty vocal minority, and bad news or horror stories will always travel further and be more memorable than the good.

They fuckin absolutely are, you'll see it everywhere, this place is goddamned nuts

The problem is not everyone into all that is also a furry, so it's kinda just an easy demographic to dunk on before going back to getting off on preggo scat porn and not telling anyone.

The problem with twitter is that it's also the platform used by soccer moms living, laughing and loving and politicians -- at least here you can cut the horse shit and skip right to the reason we all show up to the internets. I believe all communication is just thinly veiled efforts to feel out each others' kinks.

Life's too short to care about what randos on the internet think

cring is ded :v

I misread this as furry stigmata and was expecting to see a picture of Christ in a fursuit.

People who obsess over others' sexual proclivities are usually dissatisfied with their own sex lives.

seems to be how it always goes on the 'net. there's smaller groups within the group with particular interests and behaviors - and they're usually a bit more vocal or noticeable than the overarching group, so people define the whole group by em.

For as long as I've been on the internet, I've learned that the minority tends to scream the loudest, and that all the public will hear.
I've seen both sides of the furry fandom.
People just drawing cartoon animals because of how influence the TV they watched when they were younger.
It's something they enjoy and want to draw it for the sake of fun, just completely normal people overall.
And then, I've seen the most degenerate of degenerates that will fuck anything that is covered in fur (living and non-living) and have no self-awareness on how gross and fucked up their fantasy world they live in is.
And these tend to be the same people that encourage others to be just as freaky as they are.
I'd just say it's easier to ignore the mindless morons that use Twitter, and when you are around Furries long enough, you'll know which ones to stick around, and which one to keep away from once the red flags start popping up.

twitter is such a loud platform, i just wear earplugs usually

People are also under the impression that these kinks are like, furry kinks?
Hate to break it to people, but non-furries are into weird stuff too

I mean... I wanna be like "wow how could they think that" BUT I GOT SOME GROSS ASS FETISHES LOL

idk man just let people be fuckin' freaks, yaknow?

A lot of it stems from insecurity about one's own sexual fantasies, immaturity and ignorance.
As long as nobody's getting hurt, people should just live and let live. Even if it is diaper shit and inflation/vore/etc.
Resist the thought police.

lmao, yeah

i remember a dude was criticizing i draw breasts too big and meanwhile it turns out he's into loli shit so i'm like GEE WHO WOULDA THUNK IT

OK so you ready for this.

I play a table top game called Warhammer 40k. Long story short one of those anti furry dudes play it in my area and were kinda friends. We wants to be a big tournament winner and such but I play better than him and win against him like 80% of the time. I built an army of demonic -rat-man space marines and play it against him all the time. I converted all my guys to have rat heads and tails and such. It’s thematic for the army and makes sense since they are a chaos army. Little does he know he’s losing to a fully furry army. And like everyone in the gaming group is in on it but no one has told him yet.

I have to agree with it. Even today in plain 2022 people still judge furries based on generalizations and stereotypes, much like they do to certain races and hating on the fandom for the sake of it like Captain Ahab.

Some things never change, or refuse to do so.

You think people would have grown out of that past 2009, but sadly a lot of people are still stuck in the mindset of an edgy teenager.

hell yea