The furry problem
Apr. 25th, 2007 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkWTF am I supposed to do about this?
The media says that furry is a sexuality. An orientation issue, like homosexuality, but directed at the non-human.
And a fair number of furries either agree with this, or go along with it without bothering to correct it.
But WTF is somebody who is in the fandom, has a fursona, loves anthropomorphics, and is a furry in every way except in having sexual interest in it supposed to do? The technical definiton of furry is a fandom not a sexuality, but I just can't fight this! For every person I explain it to there are thousands more who think of it in sexual terms. Every time I say "I'm furry" now I have to stop and explain "no, not like that." But I haven't got anything better to call it! All of the other !furry movements are basically otherkin, which I really am not.
Maybe I'll just have to start always prefacing "I'm furry" with "I'm a clean fur" or something.
Meh. Stupid media. Stupid fandom.
The media says that furry is a sexuality. An orientation issue, like homosexuality, but directed at the non-human.
And a fair number of furries either agree with this, or go along with it without bothering to correct it.
But WTF is somebody who is in the fandom, has a fursona, loves anthropomorphics, and is a furry in every way except in having sexual interest in it supposed to do? The technical definiton of furry is a fandom not a sexuality, but I just can't fight this! For every person I explain it to there are thousands more who think of it in sexual terms. Every time I say "I'm furry" now I have to stop and explain "no, not like that." But I haven't got anything better to call it! All of the other !furry movements are basically otherkin, which I really am not.
Maybe I'll just have to start always prefacing "I'm furry" with "I'm a clean fur" or something.
Meh. Stupid media. Stupid fandom.
