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"Furries Set the Record Straight"
10 years ago
I just read this article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/.....n_6342184.html
Personally, I find it refreshing to come across a news article that puts our fandom in a positive light. I doubt that it's perfect, but whatever you see wrong with it, I doubt it's over anything other than certain fine details.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/.....n_6342184.html
Personally, I find it refreshing to come across a news article that puts our fandom in a positive light. I doubt that it's perfect, but whatever you see wrong with it, I doubt it's over anything other than certain fine details.
"anthropomorphic research project"? is that a real thing?
i have a few theories about some of the stuff that they mentioned, but i'd have to write my own article.
and it's just great to suit as another gender. :)
I suppose the ARP is a real thing. I've filled in some kind of survey at least once.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
I'm sure that's true, but I haven't experienced it. I'm afraid I my gender was female before I started suiting. ^!^
*hugs and nuzzles*
I figure that if we're going to dress up as something we're not, why not swap a gender?
and by 'we' i mean suiters.
Hmm: "Only 35 percent of furries identify as “exclusively or predominantly” heterosexual — compared to an estimated 90 percent of the general population — and 2 percent of furries identify as transgender, a rate much higher than comparable fandoms. No clear answer as to why queer communities are so overrepresented in the furry community is yet known."
I think finding Furry is what (very eventually) tipped me over into accepting being Trans, and a good part of that was simply seeing all the awesome out, transitioning or transitioned people around!
As for me, it was pretty much the other way around. Accepting my own differences, including my being transgender, helped me to develop an open mind to other peoples differences. One day, while volunteering for the International Foundation for Gender Education, the chairwoman showed me a contact card that a furry gave her. That was the first time that I learned a name for such people. I was then curious about trans-species people When I stumbled upon a furry chat room, I joined in on the chat. The next day I experimented with having a fursona (fox at the time. Mainly because of my love for floofy tails), and my part in the fandom grew from there.