Furries

[Neonatrias]

I know this is a very frowned upon topic, but seeing as this is Critical Thinking, maybe some people will be remotely mature. Note that also, this is in defense of furries -- me, us, whatever -- who are kind of tired of being harped on over this, so it's bound to be biased.

Quite a while back, I typed out something of an essay regarding the aforementioned topic. Lifestyle? I guess...Maybe. The term is similar to "emo." It's more of a genre of a generation than anything -- hardly a lifestyle (in my opinion). However, what I have found is that furries generally subdivide into two categories.

The first group would be the normal (loosely used) furries. They're the types who simply associate with a certain type of animal, or like acting like one, or whatever. Weird, yeah, but they tend to be decent people.
The second group is the "yiffers," for lack of a better term. I believe this is what bothers most people about furries. They're all unknowingly classified under this heading. From that sprouts the problem. It's a stereotype, similar to considerations that most or all black teenage boys are gangsters, or that all Mexicans drive crazily. Are they based in some vague observation? Yeah, most likely. However, they're not accurate at all.

The cold fact is that a large number of furries -- and trust me, I know a lot of them -- are just like that for the hell of it. It gives them a chance to be a little bit different, an excuse to be weird. Granted, all things have to be taken in moderation, and when it's taken too far, or too often, it turns into something that is indeed negative. For example, Eva's sig comes to mind. It's kind of disturbing, even to me.

But I want to make it perfectly clear -- not all furries are screwed-up horny scuzzballs who'll make love to anyone and anything in sight. It's unfortunate that we're all grouped like that. I'm sick of it and I'm sure others are, too. But you know, most are too afraid to come forward about it. Maybe it's because people are just insecure...Maybe there just aren't that many. But those that there are, I'm sure they're holding back among other people just so they don't get verbally torn apart.

If you've got a problem with it, fine. I'm not asking you to like furries. But I'm asking you to just quit with the flaming, the snide remarks, the sarcasm, whatever. Or at least make it funny. I can handle that.

Thanks for your attention.