If they dress in a wolf suit while doing the killing, though …
I think that’s just “vore” gone awry?
(Don’t image-search that. Better yet, don’t search it at all.)
You would be surprised at the level of feeling Furries evoke.
I am active in Steampunk. On occasion we have a someone who asks about creating a Steampunk Furry character. There is always someone who reacts very badly to the suggestion that Furries can be allowed to play as well.
(Me, I don’t care, and have pointed out The Isle of Dr. Moreau, Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows, and a number of other sources for Pseudo-Victorian anthropomorphic influences. it stil doesn’t matter.)
I’d like to see a Venn comparing the opinions on furries with those expressed in the shaved porn/unshaved porn thread.
Yeah, that stuff is pretty hard to swallow.
How would you respond if someone wanted a Klingon character?
Yes but that’s because marginalized groups generally rush to marginalize someone else whenever they get the chance.
I’m talking about hate within the general population who is not a member of any “fandom” thus feels no need to to defend the normalcy of their hobbies. I just don’t see average joes getting riled up about furries, if they’ve ever heard of them. (and that’s another thing: the tendency of fairly small groups of people with concentrated wierdness to be utterly certain that everyone is thinking about them all the time, and be mad about it. When actually no one cares.).
BTW, the term “otherkin” just about makes me want to vomit, its so twee. Though there’s probably someone out there with a sexual fetish for vomiting on otherkin… sigh… rule 34 and all.
If all you’ve got going for you is that you don’t smell and won’t pull a Roger Daltrey on a hotel, I’m starting to see the lack of Furrie love…
Hey, at least they use the litter box. 
Sell me on it. Tell me the story of why your character looks like (or is) a Klingon. Are you sure it’s not a Martian? Or a member of a lost warlike tribe from one of the blank areas of the map?
I suspect much of the uneasiness with furries, at least among folks who know what the heck they are, is that they appear to be taking a pursuit natural to reasonably young children (love of anthro animals) to what appears to be inappropriately adult lengths.
Of course all fandom has a taste of that, but with stuff like Star Trek or comic book heroes, society at large has to an extend adjusted to the notion that adults are interested in that stuff, and in any event past-puberty teens always were interested in that stuff; the thought of an adult guy dressing like kirk and making out with an adult woman dressed as a green alien isn’t nearly so off-putting - after all, that happened on the show anyway :D. An X-rated Minnie Mouse is a bit more difficult to picture.
People tend to associate anthro animals with the love they had for them when they were six, and sexualizing them, or worse seriously believing you are them, seems odd and uncomfortable - much like those guys who like to dress up and be treated as babies for sex.
That being said, of course who cares what others think of one’s fetish? It’s none of their business, really.
Have I invited you lately to bite me? Consider it a standing offer.
Great, now we’re back to vore. :rolleyes:
It bothers me that the furries who really believe they are an animal are never an unpopular animal. They’re always wolves or cats, you rarely find a spider or giraffe or prairie dog or grasshopper. There’s a fantasy book series I read where there’s a spell that takes your traits - cheerful, angsty, noble, etc. - and turns you into an animal with those traits. The well-liked main character becomes an otter. Playful, tricksy and nocturnal. I always liked that, most people would have labelled someone with those traits as a fox, but the author chose a lesser-known animal. The anti-hipster of furries. 
Oops. I could’ve sworn this was in the Pit.
Apologies.
Well they do have horns.
Sure, but the only place furries have a remotely active presence is the internet, of which 45% is made up of marginalized groups.
The funniest thing I’ve seen to date regarding furry hate is the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom. The brony phenomenon and all that. (Stop laughing, let me explain.) Naturally, you would think a show about cute talking horses would draw some fans who identify as furry, and you’d be right. You might also think that simply liking a show about cute talking horses qualifies you as a furry, and you’d be pretty justified. You might also think that, the show being about friendship, it would attract a reasonably friendly and inclusive fandom, and…you’d be surprised.
You would not believe the hatred a good chunk of the fandom has for furries. It’s astonishing, really. Some folks, who really love the show, see absolutely nothing wrong with calling someone else a furfag. One fan site puts up a collection of pictures every day with links back to the sources, and if a source happens to be Furaffinity, which is like Deviantart for that niche, the howls and protests and jeering rise up instantly.
It’s hypocrisy on a level I can’t even begin to imagine. As far as I can tell there’s no rational basis for it, it’s just that furries are The Hated Group, and if you don’t want to be painted as one you better hate them too.
I got that. 
But there are anthro and funny animal media going back just about to the beginning of the time. Reynard the Fox, Br’er Rabbit, Aesop’s tales, Micky Mouse, the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz (and many more from the books), etc etc etc. There’s no ‘canon’ like Star Wars or Star Trek, but there’s no ‘canon’ for science fiction or fantasy fans either. Furry fans are generally a subset of that.
There are certain media that most furry fans enjoy, just like there are certain media that most scifi fans enjoy.
I can’t argue with that. On the other hand, I’ve never heard of any real people actually having sex while in a full costume (those things are fucking hot and expensive.)
But people could say the same thing about gay people (for the record, I’m not saying that being a furry fan is the same as being gay.)
I can agree with this. Most of the other large fandoms are centered around things aimed at older groups. The only one I can think of right now are My Little Ponies (all the bronies), and that mostly just gets incomprehension from outsiders. Perhaps Harry Potter - there are a LOT of adult fans who enjoy analyzing it and partaking in the various related media, but that is aimed at teenagers.
But the only knowledge the average person has of furries, is that CSI episode, which presents no more of a realistic view than it does of, well, science. But because of that, we’re stereotyped as people who dress up like animals and have sex (which again, if it happens at all doesn’t happen often - the fursuits are HOT, expensive, and usually have poor visibility from inside. Ask anybody who’s worked as a mascot if they’d like to engage in strenuous physical activity while wearing one of those). Admittedly most of the internet hate was spread by 4chan and SomethingAwful and has a slightly more varied picture, but still assume that it’s perverted.
In case you all can’t tell this is one of my pet peeves (sigh :rolleyes: no pun intended). I would like to emphasize, again, that there is not necessarily a sexual component to being a furry, any more than there is for being a Trekkie, or a brony, or a fan of any of the thousands of other things that don’t have nicknames.
I don’t understand the whole idea of “fandom.” What does that even mean, a fandom that is inclusive? Or being active in the ____ scene. I like My Little Pony fine, but I don’t understand why it matters what the fans are like. Maybe I’m not enough of a joiner…
Not really. If bronies liked the show because it was about talking horses, then you’d be justified, but in my experience they don’t. Liking a good show that happens to be about talking horses doesn’t make you a furry any more than liking Shinobi makes you a fan of star-crossed lovers.