This thread is now about Furries, for some reason. Formerly: "So. Anonymous."

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

My theory is that furriphobes want to be homophobes, but they can't because it isn't "cool" in their culture to be a homophobe so they use furriphobia as a surrogate activity.

I call bullshit. Queers mock furries just as much as anyone else does. You know why? Because that shit is FUNNY.

Let's face it: SOME FETISHES ARE FUCKING HILARIOUS.

[Elder Iptuous]

laughing at/with is different than hating on, though....

[Nast]

My theory is that furriphobes want to be homophobes, but they can't because it isn't "cool" in their culture to be a homophobe so they use furriphobia as a surrogate activity.

I call bullshit. Queers mock furries just as much as anyone else does. You know why? Because that shit is FUNNY.

Let's face it: SOME FETISHES ARE FUCKING HILARIOUS.

No! Sex is SRS BSNS. Just lie back and think of England.

[Bruno]

didnt someone important once say hate the sin not the sinner?

Nobody cares what Moses or Solomon or whoever said about shit.

Besides, in this case, it is not the "sin" of masturbating in an animal costume that I hate, it's the PEOPLE who like to do it.

So why do you hate those people? I mean, I'm really curious... it seems like a BiP bar for most of us, but I can't seem to find any rational reason for it being there.

Joking, man.

For the most part, people who are into furry sex are probably not people I'd hang out with, and I certainly have no compunction about making fun of them, but I don't HATE them, I was just riffing off of Cramulus' "Don't hate the disease, hate the PEOPLE with the disease" line.

So you probably wouldn't hang out with people that like furry sex... would you hang out with people that are into S&M? What about Cosplay?

I'm not being pro-furry here... I'm really just trying to figure out why they seem so universally bagged on... don't get me wrong, I've made fun of furries for years... it's an old pastime at Marcon (spring Con in Columbus). Yet, I've got two friends that always seemed rather sane and normal, who have said that they're furries. They have a social life, they have 'normal' relationships... and they also like to look at furry art and one of them likes to dress up in costumes three or four times a year.

I'm not gonna pretend to understand why cartoon animal costumes get them off... but I can't seem to figure out why its such a taboo among otherwise open minded individuals. It's not just here, they seem universally reviled by most of the groups of people I hang out with. Yet, no one has been able to pin down any sort of reason for this singled out sort of behavior.

If they were actually fucking real animals, I think I'd understand it a lot better. Apparently though, there's not really any correlation between them.

No, it's not that furriness creeps me out so much that I wouldn't hang out with someone cool BECAUSE they were a furry, it's that most of the people I've known who are furfags are NOT COOL. Not even the kind of marginal, extremely nerdy/dorky/geeky/gay "cool" that I'm into, which is not at all "cool" by many people's standards. I'm sure that if I ever met a cool furry that I liked, I would hang out with them.

S&M - lots of people I like are into that scene to some degree or another.
Cosplay - not so many, but a few. I can't help laughing at it, though.

Furries tend to verge on "otherkin" and "vampires", though, in terms of the people who are attracted to it. I would have to say that I am more likely to want to hang out with the sort of people who are into AB than the sort of people who are into furry, just based on a generalization about the personalities who tend to be into each. Individuals may vary etc. etc.

By AB do you mean Adult Baby?

As far as I know, I've never met anyone who was a furry or into the BDSM "lifestyle", so I have no real impressions of them other than what I have seen online, which is limited to BDSM. Maybe I should check out a furry site to get better acquainted.

As far as the BDSM subculture goes, for the most part they seem like mostly cool people except when some of them get those spiraling shapes in their eyes and start talking about "THIS IS WAHT I YAM!!!!1".

Then they start to creep me out and I get the urge to tell them to seek therapy.

Let's face it: SOME FETISHES ARE FUCKING HILARIOUS

All sex/sexual behavior is fucking hilarious. We stick part(s) of our bodies into other people/have somebody else stick part(s) of their body into us, and thrust repeatedly because tiny robots in our brains compel us to as a part of a massive self-replication scheme.

OR

As part of a battle for control between an invisible old man in the sky and some kind of evil subterranean serpent/lava-man.

What part of that isn't hilarious?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

laughing at/with is different than hating on, though....

Sometimes, when the personalities that tend to be drawn to certain fetishes are unsympathetic, they become interchangeable.

Take "vampires", for example. I've known a couple of pretty decent people who were into the goth/vampire scene, but the majority the ones I've known are FUCKING INSUFFERABLE. Like you want to stab them through the heart with a wooden stake just to make them SHUT THE FUCK UP.

You would THINK furries would be cute, and I'm sure some of them are, but most of the ones I've known to be furries (and I'm sure a lot of people don't let on, because of fursecution) were the type of utterly annoying snively people I just couldn't stand to be around.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

As far as the BDSM subculture goes, for the most part they seem like mostly cool people except when some of them get those spiraling shapes in their eyes and start talking about "THIS IS WAHT I YAM!!!!1".

Then they start to creep me out and I get the urge to tell them to seek therapy.

Ugh. Yes.

All sex/sexual behavior is fucking hilarious. We stick part(s) of our bodies into other people/have somebody else stick part(s) of their body into us, and thrust repeatedly because tiny robots in our brains compel us to as a part of a massive self-replication scheme.

OR

As part of a battle for control between an invisible old man in the sky and some kind of evil subterranean serpent/lava-man.

What part of that isn't hilarious?

You have a good point.

[Cramulus]

the INTERNET!

without it, we wouldn't be privy to the creepy things that furries do in their bedrooms, bathrooms, dog houses.

This one time I was sitting on a train, and the girl in the seat behind me was having a conversation about how much beer she drank (a lot), followed by how much anal sex she had (a lot). I was grossed out, and yet, I couldn't stop listening.

But I don't have the patience to wait for furries to have lurid conversations near me on a train. Luckily I have the INTERNETTTTT!

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I find that most people which make it obvious that they're into some particular kink, do so in a cry for attention. I know people that are professional Doms etc and they never say a word about it except among their close friends. I also know people that are pathetic wastes of flesh and breath... and EVERYONE knows they're into the S&M scene. I wonder if that's similar to your furry experiences?

However, at least we've identified your particular basis for the view... I still haven't identified mine :-/

[Vene]

Nothing to add, I just like xkcd.

[Elder Iptuous]

... I still haven't identified mine :-/

I already told you; peer pressure.
by elimination, that's all there is.  your thoughts are not your own. in order to reprogram yourself, you must make a furry outfit....

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

... I still haven't identified mine :-/

I already told you; peer pressure.
by elimination, that's all there is.  your thoughts are not your own. in order to reprogram yourself, you must make a furry outfit....

*And thus was Ratatosk enlightened*

OMGZ, I could make it a Squirrel outfit and use it in official Discordian rituals...

[the last yatto]

aren't most fetishes based on embarrassment and power

[Vene]

... I still haven't identified mine :-/

I already told you; peer pressure.
by elimination, that's all there is.  your thoughts are not your own. in order to reprogram yourself, you must make a furry outfit....

*And thus was Ratatosk enlightened*

OMGZ, I could make it a Squirrel outfit and use it in official Discordian rituals...

You must use this squirrel as the template.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

aren't most fetishes based on embarrassment and power

I don't know, are they?

[Elder Iptuous]

aren't most fetishes based on embarrassment and power

I don't know, are they?

Hm....
only the ones that are, i guess?
let's seeeeee, where did i put my 'comprehensive list of fetishes'?
srsly, i would say that many are not.