#it's much less cool if your bashing is on false pretenses

[nattikay]

(whispers) that’s not what furries arrrrrrrrrre

lol I was gonna put this in the tags but figured it might get long so w/e

anyways just really tired of seeing people hate on “furries” when their definition of furry isn’t even correct.

A furry is just someone who likes the concept of anthropomorphic animals. That’s literally it. That’s the whole definition. 

“fURriEs aRe seXUaL deGeNERaTeS” Except no. Are there sexual degenerates who also happen to be furries? Of course. But being furries--aka, thinking talking animals are cool--is not what makes them degenerate. 

The definition of furry is not “people who have sex in animal costumes”.

The definition of furry is not “people who have a fetish for fur/animals/animal costumes etc”.

The definition of furry is not “zoophiles”. 

The definition of furry is not “someone who gets sexually aroused by animals (cartoon or otherwise)”.

“But I saw a furry account posting about those things!!1!” Are there some individual furries who engage in such behavior? Yes. Is such behavior degenerate to varying degrees? Yeah. I agree, a lot of that is pretty gross. 

But just because SOME people-who-like-the-concept-of-anthro-animals engage in such behavior DOES NOT MEAN that ALL people-who-like-the-concept-of-anthro-animals do so, nor does it mean that liking-the-concept-of-anthro-animals should automatically be assumed to be tangled up in all that crap.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m under no delusion that the furry “community” is a 100% wholesome sfw utopia; I have my share of issues with the community culture.

I’m just really really tired of again and again hearing people bash “furries” when what they’re actually thinking of are murrsuiters or zoophiles or even just weird porn addicts (though that last one’s an issue for another post and is much more of a “society at large” problem than a specifically furry problem). 

I consider myself a furry because I like drawing cartoon animals, making animal OCs, going to cons, and yes even fursuiting (no, not banging in it). Those are things that I find fun. 

And I’m sooooooo sick of getting accused of/being assumed to participate in the above misconceptions because of it.

sincerely,

a sfw anti-porn furry who just wants to draw cute animals and is Tired™