Stereotype, x2
Cite specific examples, x2
I don't need to cite examples to prove that furry research and zoophilia exists and is created by the furry community.
I believe this truth to be self-evident.
I don't go around screaming and making threads saying "I'M A FURRY, ACCEPT ME", I don't talk about it everywhere, and I don't bring it up when people don't want to hear it. The ones that do are the people you want to direct these posts towards.
This thread, and your persistence in arguing for a label you share you practitioners of bestiality, are evidences to the contrary.
I just wear an avatar relevant to an interest like countless people do with many interests that are very similar, I talk about it in conversations that are relevant, and I bring it up with people who I know are interested.
I never did, and I don't recall seeing any posts in this thread that did, and if there are, you should direct this point towards them.
How are anthropomorphized animals an interest? What exactly do you do with them? Look at them all day, and so often, that you call your obsession a
hobby or a
lifestyle. The obsession with half-human animals is obviously more than enough reason to suspect a paraphilia, considering you aren't a fan of any specific piece of work, but just half-human animals in general.
I said that most people who hate them, not all, hate them because all they know about them are the stuffty stereotypes
Yet all you have to defend your fandom with is your stereotypes of critics.
So I should not call myself something just because of a few freaks?
Yes. If you like dressing up in white cloaks and organizing parades, you wouldn't call yourself a Klansman, because they're infamous tribal extremists.
If you're a huge fan of anthro Disney cartoons, you shouldn't call yourself a furry, because they're zoophiles.
I'm sure you can find Klansman that weren't actually tribal, just as you can find furries that aren't actually animal-forgeters. But the fact is, if you choose to label yourself as a "furry", you're willingly associating yourself with the sickest forgets of your demographic.
You
can like anthros without being a furry.
Have you been told you that you can't wear an anime styled avatar because some people who like anime are freaks? What would you say if you were?
I'd tell them they were wrong and that I'm not an anime freak, I don't even like anime, and I don't want to call myself a weeaboo and get lumped in with the lot of them.
People enjoy anime all the time without proclaiming themselves "otakus" or "weeaboos"; the ones that do are not so different than furries.
If a zoophile calls themselves, say, a gamer, does that mean I can't call myself a gamer because a zoophile calls them self that?
"Gamers" has no connotations that suggest zoophilia. Furries, however, does.
Also, yes, there are some people into zoophilia/bestiality in the fandom, and these people are largely shunned, in fact many communities will even ban those who admit to liking it.
The fact is, is that the largest internet furry communities are centralized on research, such as FurAffinity.
Allof the furry conventions are centralized on research.
The
majority of furries enjoy anthro art. You don't "shun" them, you desperate try to wrestle the label away from who the term originally described. They are the real furries, you're just some kid that obsesses over a fandom he doesn't even understand, and you feel like you can purge the taint from a fandom that's grown from taint.
Your argument is about furries who can't shut up about being furry, and then getting mad at and shouting "ACCEPT ME" to people who tell them to shut up?
The problems here are that:
a. Those who do this are also hated by the majority of the fandom that doesn't do this.
b. You are also extending your hatred to those who simply use an avatar, and if this is your sole reason for hating them, then why do you not hate other groups that do the exact same thing, with interests so very similar?
The MAJORITY of the furry fandom enjoys anthro research. MOST of the anthro content produced by furries is research. The fact that FurAffinity, Fchan, and Agnph are the LARGEST furry communities on the internet, and are 100% founded on furry research, is more than enough evidence. Hell, even searching "furry" on DeviantArt results in more than half of the images being erotic.
I would never wear a label that throws me in with zoophiles, because forget YEAH, I like Star Fox. I think Fox McCloud is a bad ass, but it has nothing to do with the fact that he's an animal. I'm not going to go around and obsessing over animals because a character I like happens to be one, and I'm not going to wear a label that lumps me in with suck forgets.
The fact that you have a
taste for humanized animals in general is suspect in and of itself, that you'd be a fan of simply the concept and not on the materials' own merits isn't something that's perfectly sensible.
Sorry for having much more important matters to attend to than arguing with someone on the internet
If you're referring to the way I said it sounding demanding, then I didn't mean it like that.
You're a virgin that's never had a serious relationship with a girl and a vast majority of your free time is spent alone, surfing the internet and chatting with people on the internet. Don't even pretend to not give a stuff because you're oh-so-cool and have better things to do than argue, because honestly, you don't.
Hell, even I have the huevos to admit that I'm here because I have nothing better to do at the moment.
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