Just curious

[beetiger]

A poll for the people on my friends list who consider themselves furries or members of the furry fandom.

[Poll #241319]

Feel free to discuss in more detail below. I'll put my two cents in later.

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I voted "things we do" because that what's keeps me vaguely in the "furry community". Like a lot of people, I drifted in, and somewhere out the other side; some of the changes in me over the years are due to it (good and bad), some are not. I know a lot of interesting and cool people because of a mutual interest in animal-headed people, and the easiest way to get together with a bunch of them is at a gathering of that sort.

On the other hand, I tend to think that 'furry' mostly boils down to 'animal-headed people are cool', so maybe I'm more of an orthodoxist.

Really, I think of myself as more of a xenophile than a furry, these days.

Re:

[rowyn]

'animal-headed people are cool'

Yeah, that's where I enter into it, too. But I voted 'orthopraxy' because it's the activities that thought inspires which makes furry a community. Furries may all share that one idea -- "animal-headed people are cool" -- but what else they believe varies so widely. If furry was held together on beliefs, it would need more shared beliefs. But it's held together by art and activities and the things furries due together, which outweigh various disagreements on issues.

If that makes sense. :)