Anthropromorphism, furries et al
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sparkindarknessAnd probably a very bad spelling of anthropromorphism. Maybe if I spell it differently every time I will get it right some times.
Ok my stance:
1) Not all depictions of anthropromophic animals are linked to, involved with or in any way related to the furry community. This goes without saying. Assuming that they are is unwarrented.
2) There is a furry community and a furry identity. Some sections of this are concerned with sex. Some are not. There's diversity everywhere - but most things are misunderstood from the outside. We see things - especially different cultures, subcultures and communities - from the outside and may overemphasise a part of them misunderstand their complexity or internal diversity and generally make sweeping assumptions.
3) As to furry sex my opinion on that regards any and all sex. If all are consenting and capable of consenting then rock on and pass the whipped cream!
As to my dragony-folks:
The dragons CANNOT shapeshift except for Black Dragons (and that's more illusory than anything). The Earthmother and Skyfather created them to rule and guide the world and gave them a perfect shape for it - incognito (except for the Blacks) was never considered a part of this. Even if they could and even though they engender offspring with humans this is more through magic and ritual than hot sweaty nekkedness. Apart from anything else they are entirely different species - without magic they simply couldn't produce kids. Anyway, the dragons are the size of small planes - hot sexoring is just not thesable.
The Half-dragons can and do mate with humans - usually other members of the dragon houses - and do so in conventional fashion (nekked, sweaty, count-the-legs-and-divide-by-two fashion as Terry Pratchet would put it). Their children (quarter dragons, 1/8th dragons etc etc) gradually lose draconic characteristics with every passing generation.
In the beginning of the story, it has actually been several generations since a new Half-dragon has been born :)
Ok my stance:
1) Not all depictions of anthropromophic animals are linked to, involved with or in any way related to the furry community. This goes without saying. Assuming that they are is unwarrented.
2) There is a furry community and a furry identity. Some sections of this are concerned with sex. Some are not. There's diversity everywhere - but most things are misunderstood from the outside. We see things - especially different cultures, subcultures and communities - from the outside and may overemphasise a part of them misunderstand their complexity or internal diversity and generally make sweeping assumptions.
3) As to furry sex my opinion on that regards any and all sex. If all are consenting and capable of consenting then rock on and pass the whipped cream!
As to my dragony-folks:
The dragons CANNOT shapeshift except for Black Dragons (and that's more illusory than anything). The Earthmother and Skyfather created them to rule and guide the world and gave them a perfect shape for it - incognito (except for the Blacks) was never considered a part of this. Even if they could and even though they engender offspring with humans this is more through magic and ritual than hot sweaty nekkedness. Apart from anything else they are entirely different species - without magic they simply couldn't produce kids. Anyway, the dragons are the size of small planes - hot sexoring is just not thesable.
The Half-dragons can and do mate with humans - usually other members of the dragon houses - and do so in conventional fashion (nekked, sweaty, count-the-legs-and-divide-by-two fashion as Terry Pratchet would put it). Their children (quarter dragons, 1/8th dragons etc etc) gradually lose draconic characteristics with every passing generation.
In the beginning of the story, it has actually been several generations since a new Half-dragon has been born :)
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Date: 2009-04-11 01:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-04-11 06:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-04-11 10:20 pm (UTC)You go on and on and on in BOTH your comments about how very much you don't wan to be a furry, as though being a fan of anthropomorphic animals were still something wrong and bad, and how am I supposed to feel about this?
He gets a sorry, when you never insulted him in the first place, I get "but furry is a kink, and I don't want to be furry"
Fuck you. Furry is NOT a kink. I SAID THAT. I would think that somebody who is a furry would know this better than somebody who insists they're not! Furry is NOT ABOUT SEX. NOT NOT NOT NOT. SOME furs ALSO have a fetish for anthropomorphic animals. SOME OF THEM. Not all of them. NOT ME. Can I say this any other way? Can I get this through your skull? I was going to just leave this, but here you are going on about how you're sorry? YOUR SORRY? NO YOU'RE FUCKING NOT or you would have given me a fucking apology for acting like it was some awful, horrible, bad thing to be called furry, instead of giving me a page of how you were right do to so!
And you fucking ignored me when I said furry was not about sex. IT'S NOT.
"Furry fandom refers to the fandom for fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics." That's from fucking wikipedia. That's what a furry is. There's NOTHING in there about fetishes, about sex, or about anything like that. I don't fucking think that fetishes are a bad thing but I'm FUCKING SICK OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU ASSUMING THINGS ABOUT MY SEX LIFE. My sex life has nothing to do with animals! Not anthro, not real, not nothing. NO FUCKING ANIMALS. I don't dress up to fuck somebody, I don't fantasize about animals when I'm screwing someone, it's NOT MY KINK. (I have kinks, that one isn't one of them.)
Do you GET THIS YET?!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2009-04-11 11:51 pm (UTC)