Furry Assumptions

[Squirm]

I am irritated beyond rational levels at the overwhelming majority of people who automatically associate "furry" with "strange freaky fetish".

Not that if you pursue said fetish do I have any problem with that; It's just idiotic that you cannot like any type of anthropomorphic character without being accused of wanting a sexual relationship with it 

I remember playing final fantasy IX back in 6th grade the day it came out and being absolutely enthralled by the diversity of the characters (freya being my far away favorite), and now the memory of these beloved creations has been tainted by the inability to percieve a world outside their own of the people who enjoy "Family Guy" after season 3.

Take me back to the time where an anthropomorphic animal could be involved in a plotline without endless snickering, or at least to a time before the /b/tards created "rule 34".

[KittKat chunky~]

yep, this happens to any groups or peoples that arent "normal" according to others... really it annoys me a bit, but i couldnt care less (unless of course this hatred of "unormal" people turns to violence or comments that can hurt people, in which case i treat it as a form of racism)....

[Tyla]

Saying a sexual fetish isn't normal is just stupid, in general. And calling a sub-culture a get-together of a similar fetishism is on a higher level.

I mean, I know several people with a sexual fetish for feet. FEET. Do feet have any value in that sort of thing? Absolutely not. And I don't think evolution will pop in and make it that way either.

[Wolfgang]

well when I first became a fur I was upset with some of the assumptions that were made, but over time I just lost interest and I didn't bother getting upset with it.

So I would recommend just forgeting about all the assumptions that are made towards you and just live your life to the fullest. But don't get swallowed up by it.

[KittKat chunky~]

well said there wolfgang 

[Armalite_]

Basically what Wolfgang said. Don't let it get to you, it happens. You have to get over this kinda stuff all the time. People like to troll, those uneducated about the furry community will make their assumptions, nothing you can do about it except get on with being furry.

[Death Voices]

To add to what everyone else has said, it's usually those kind of people who aren't worth the time of day.
They do it just to get a reaction from you that'll make you look like the bad guy at the end, but if you don't give them what they want, then you'll be a lot happier in the knowledge that you're a heck of a lot smarter than they are.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Well, in all honesty, it's not like there aren't people out there like that. Take furaffinity or google for example. If you type in 'furry' in google, in the first few things there's an anthro in bondage. And that's with a moderate setting on safe search. Furaffinity allows anything from pedophilia to other odd fetishes that are not limited to making use of feces, and if you didn't have your mature filter on, your eyes might completely burn out from all the disgusting things they have on there. The thing that I've never been able to understand is when people baw about fursecution and how we're so normal, yet they'll turn around and participate and freely discuss a truly sick fetish or have a sex party. In truth though, sometimes people have encountered nothing but furries like that, and since they are out there, we who do not participate in anything of the sort have to deal with it.  I'm not saying it's still right to assume everyfur is like that, but in a lot of cases, the shoe fits.

[Count of Cutesy]

I don't know if I should comment on this, but I believe it should be okay, as long as I am contributing to the subject.

I, myself, hate all these stereotypes. Trolls I can stand, because they just hate us for the sake of hating us, but then we have people like my dad. I keep trying to explain to dad what furries are, and all he wants to believe are the stereotypes. He refuses to understand what a furry actually is.

Also commenting on above poster: I don't go to FurAffinity that much. Not only do some of the furries there like that sort of Furry Porn crap, but alot of the "furries" there don't even seem like actual furries, just people pretending to be furries.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

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