Some assholes just are incapable of learning. They persist in beating a horse so dead that the sun-bleached bones are half buried in the sands of time.
This first article comes to us from the Daily Star Sunday: Furries...Britain's kinkiest sex craze: People who romp dressed as ANIMALS. The title says it all, and it should come as no surprise that this bird cage liner is another sleazy tabloid devoid of any real journalistic ethics. They must've been really hard up to print bullshit like this.
THE phrase "animal lover" might bring up images of people with a lot of pets, volunteering at a rescue centre. However, in one community, it means something completely different.
Members of the furry fandom, or furries, are so obsessed with humanoid animal characters they go to conventions to celebrate them, get suits made up to look like one and can even be sexually interested in them.
The furry fandom is a community of people who love "humanoid animals" – or anthropomorphic animals and are also interested in animals with human qualities.
This could range from a more conventional liking for ladies wearing cat ears or bunny tails – to bombarding the Frosties mascot with declarations of love.
Although the following began in the 80s it blew up when Disney released their version of Robin Hood -- with a very human fox as Robin.
After the recent release of film Zootopia this year has seen a new wave of people converting to the fandom.
"The furry fandom is a community of people who love 'humanoid animals' -- or anthropomorphic animals and are also interested in animals with human qualities". This tautological sentence says a lot about the quality of the writing. Next, we have this: "Although the following began in the 80s it blew up when Disney released their version of Robin Hood -- with a very human fox as Robin". How does a movie released in 1973 cause the membership of a fandom that didn't even exist until 1984 at the very earliest to increase? Was there an old DeLorean, flux capacitor, a stick of plutonium somehow involved here? This dipshit didn't bother to look up when Robin Hood was released. He probably heard that Robin Hood had something to do with Furries and just ASSumed it brought in a lot of new Furs. This sort of "fact checking" is what I'd expect from a rag like the Daily Star.
Though both Robin Hood and Zootopia have decided fur-appeal, we know that the former was never marketed towards a fandom that would not exist for another nine years after its release. It is likely that Zootopia was meant for Furries. I predicted this back in Ought 7. We do not "convert" anyone because we're neither religion nor ideology. Correlation != causation: new affiliates are coming in every year, as the attendance figures of just about every con will attest. The attendance has been on the rise long before anyone ever heard of this new movie. Another indication that the writer is a semi-literate 'tard who has no idea of what he's attempting to discuss here..
At one end of the spectrum, there are those who prefer to simply draw or create art dedicated to human-like animals.
But at the other extreme, there are furries who pay thousands of pounds for custom-made suits, have their own "fursona" and even like to have sex in character.
Here is what this "spectrum" looks like.
If furries who "prefer to simply draw or create art" are one end of an "extreme", then just who the fuck is occupying all that middle territory? Fact is: the majority of Furs do not have a fursuit and will never have one. At most, 'suiters are 20% of furdom. How many actually have sex in them? DAMN few! After spending thousands of pounds to have a fursuit made, who in the HELL would deface it with SPH's? If this dipshit writer ever had actual sex, he would know that it's a lot of work. Doing this while wearing a cumbersome fursuit that could keep you warm in Alaska in January is not exactly an appealing prospect to say the least. Does it happen? Sure it does, and I've even seen the video evidence. Is it common? Hell to the no!
"A 'fursona' is a persona created by a furry – one they believe reflects who they truly are inside and they have a lot of fun in character as the animal". More ignorant bullshit: confusing furry with therianthropy. A fursona is mainly an avatar used on forums. Confusing therianthtopes or otherkin with furries pisses off both parties.
This can go as far as having a custom-made suit built, which costs around £2,000 (The same fursuits they always have sex in.) in total, creating Twitter accounts for their "fursona" and going about their day to day business dressed as the animal.
No, you dumbfuck, CSI was fiction. Furries don't wear their fursuits to every con event, and they damn sure don't wear them for every day activities. You'd never be able to keep it clean, and you'd have to burn it within a week. Yeah, after spending some 2,000 pounds on one, you're gonna ruin it in short order by wearing it every day? Whatevs.
Some members of the fandom even get sexual kicks out of having sex in character and there are plenty of porn sites dedicated to giving some furries their kicks.
You already said that.
"There are companies which thrive purely from making costumes for members of the furry fandom".
He finally got something right.
Plenty of books and studies have been done on the furry community, and there was even a furries newspaper until 2010, when the internet began to take over.
Furdom got its start on the 'Net from the get-go back when Usenet was how you communicated on-line, not in 2010. Dipshit.
This bullshit article is basically a rehash of Heavy Petting that appeared in Loaded. That was 1998 -- damn near twenty fucking years ago! Chew Fox and Tom Cat told the whole world all about it in their TMI performance on the Tyra Banks Show all the way back in Ought 9. Back then, Furries and their freaky furry sex was a WTF sensation. That was before gay marriage, the controversies swirling around those who don't want to serve gay weddings, the latest controversies over transsexuals and what rest rooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms they can or can not use. All issues that were unthinkable in 2009. These days, who the hell cares if someone wants to fuck while dressed up as a fox? Yeah, I know this is a British cat box liner, and these are American issues, but the people of England and the whole rest of Europe have more important things to worry about than how a very tiny minority of an international fandom get their sexual freak on. Prioroties, people, priorities.
Furbashing is over, it's dead, it is just so ten years ago. All the furbash web sites are long gone, even the one that made its reputation as the first of the furbash sites, Portal of Evil, is gone. The Live Journal furbash communities that still exist have long been abandoned without a single post in years now. That old nemesis of Furdom, Something Awful, lost interest in furbashing ten years ago, and they haven't done any live trolling of cons since 2006. SA reported on Anthrocon-2006: not a trace of furbashing there. The "rivalry" between Anime fans and Furries is old news, and long forgotten by both fandom's affiliates.
"FLUFFY FUN: The furry fandom is one with many dimensions". How ironic indeed, as you'd never know that from this article. Keep on beating that horse, but it ain't never gonna ride again.
Dipshits.
