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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.

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From:

krdbuni.livejournal.com

Perhaps I'm the wrong person to ask. I personally am in it for the spiritual side of things, but I consider myself to be in the minority if only because most of the people with whom I have any regular contact all seem to look down on totemists, animal-spirituality folks, and other statistically-abnormal religious folks as "lifestylers".

I answered "orthopraxy" as a result of this, but I gave the answer I think applies to most people, but not to me.

Kristy

From:

haikujaguar.livejournal.com

The fact that I use two services commonly used by furries for similar reasons (FM to talk to people, Furbid to sell things) appears to me to be the only thing I have much in common with furries. I'm not sure that makes me a furry, except from the outside looking in.

From:

paka.livejournal.com

I feel that furry fandom is a pretty huge umbrella. I'd define as a furry fan anyone from the heavy-duty totemic association types to the passing people who like animal-head-people-art. I think you'd have to define being a furry as different from being a furry fan if you were ever to define the group by Orthodoxy.

From:

terrycloth.livejournal.com

It's a social grouping -- I had all the same likes and dislikes, and fascination with totemism and transformation, long before I ever knew anything like the furry fandom existed, let alone became a part of it.

Defining people who might like furry fandom if they were involved in it but never heard of it as 'furries' is just silly.

From:

lediva.livejournal.com

I think what we do is what initially brings us together. Why we do what we do is where all the differences and arguments come in, IMO.

Whether you enjoy positing the various biological possibilities or just jerking off... you both still look at pictures of anthropomorphic animals.

From:

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.

From:

rowyn

Well, you like the way animals look and the concept of anthropomorphized animals, don't you? :)

From:

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. :)

From:

schitzie.livejournal.com

Right now... I don't feel that either one applies...

I've spent most of the morning falling further and deeper inward in my thoughts after reading piece after piece of animosity in regards to furry... both in mental concepts, and in physical deeds...

Taken from an outsider's perspective... we don't seem to follow either option, and the important parts seem to be the conflicts.

Right now, all I feel for certain... is that I don't understand, and for being someone who does think he's a furry... I feel very much like an outsider.