Am I A Furry?

alt.fan.furry has a much more liberal definition than say Moo's.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/furry/faq/section-1.html

Your fail is utterly epic. Do you even know where the term Neko comes from? Or what it most commonly stands for?

No offense to most canines, but you make them all look back if you even try to classify yourself as a furry. Also you may want to try looking at places like anthrocon.org, for a positive and broad term of what is furry. There's so many different types of people out there portraying different things don't even pretend like you know them all.

Try growing up little child and doing some research before you give us anymore negative publicity. kthnxbai

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funny, have you read me other posts as well? if you did, you are just PROVING that furries and Neko's defend their things, like a shortsighted, narrow visioned, one sides truth. Like most religious people. (no offence directly, but in general speaking)

Even more, going to start throwing verbal agressive tones (calling names), proves it more..

as soon as someone speaks up, or in a less positive manner, people start to turn their backs to that person and ignoring him/her totally as of what is being said. If it isn't happy talk, it doesn't exist and should be crushed. only happy talk is permitted.

And.. one other thing.. who says i'm a furry? seems you are not a good reader.. please read my posts over again, word by word..

okthnkxbai

I had a Japanese friend of mine tell me in SL some time back that, in Japan, "neko" is used as slang to describe a "homosexual", usually male, or meaning an overtly effeminate male. It doesn't translate exactly to "gay", but they are often represented in manga and other forms as having "cat-like" features.

As for the rest of the world, I think the term has been co-opted to describe a specific "species" of furry, or just a human with cat-like features.

Most of the nekos in anime and manga that I've seen have been most definitely female.

Were they thinking of bishounen?

Actually he's just pointing out that your shortsighted, narrow visioned and one sided truth is in fact wrong. And like a zealot you defend them with belittling behavor and tones.

Neko can mean many things

/me skritches the huskie's ears.
Stop gnawing on the nasty old troll...here's a Milkbone instead.

*notices the mint crystals and wonders if someone is telling him he needs a breath freshener*

well, i'm not a troll, i'm human

anyway, you all (who pick on me, calling me names) have no clue on to what sharp discussion means.. look it up, you would actually learn something new.

You are all defending something, that's ok, but you all as roleplayers (neko's, furrs whatever breed, thing you pretend to be), can't take something that is beyond the pretty scope of life. I'm not narrow visioned, nor a troll..
i'm just trying, as you all (if you even read at all) could read in the thread, to discuss, to go indepth..
all i hear is shallow comments, personal attacks, and no indepth counter reasoning indepth.

this is also going on, with extreme believers of a religion.. they have the same behavioral patterns. think about that for a while, and then try to respond.

It seems, that some of you (you know who you are), cannot see byond the scope of your biased visions, and are defending that vision as the only truth, without commenting indepth on my remartk, suggestions, and flipside arguments of the religion called Neko or Furry. When someone isn't talking possitive, you want to crush it down quickly, by calling names, or ignorance or insulting comments back. Now, it seems that i cannot discuss with furries nor neko's, as long as I don't strictly follow their bibles.. that worries me more, than the religion itself.
Religion, in term of similar behavior of the extreme believers.

All i said from the beginning was that furrs where originated canine based breeds.. and Neko's, feline based.
And look what actually happend... i got all kind of rubbish/offensive remarks thrown at me from diverse people here, like i was a terrorist invading the religion. lol.
i wonder why.. oh wait i just explained why that happend.
i accidentely thought, that discussing with extreme believers was in 2009 possible, but hmm still in the medival times (sarcasm mode line)

Wait on, in another thread you just implied you were a cat.

lol, no you said i was a dog in real life, remember?
i played along with that comment (for fun sakes)

You made a statement that is easily proven false through use of the web, and refuse to even list supporting information.

Instead you have resorted to refering to folks in a negative light as fanatics and roleplayers who have no knowledge of the information and are simply defending their views.

In effect you are troling.

Now back up your statements and cease your ad homen attacks against those who rebutte your claims

If you can not or will not, then there is no denying you are a troll.

Dogs don't hiss, Neko.

read all posts again, and again and again.. word for word..
and then, sit on the couch (or in your basket for all i care), and go in thinking mode, then stand up again, go back to the computer..
and reread all posts... (and repeat this 10 times).

then, tell me your conclusion once again..

1) who is trolling here? (if any)
2) who is not willing to see byond the biased scope?
3) what was i trying to do in the threat ?
4) what did you, and some other do?
5) why was i attack instantly when i commented on something i know, that appearently other don't like, or don't want to hear?
6) why the shortsighted comment at the end of your last post?
7) i don't have to prove anything, you all aren't either.. that's called opinions, questionaires, suggestions aka, discussion from mind.

see you back in some hours i guess

and bonus :
i'm neither of the two, never was.. but the question was brought up by the topic poster.. and all i did was giving my knowledge, and personal vision. You and many here, ARE one of the two (or a subculture thereof), and can't stand critisism or anybody interfering that is not the same as they are. that's what i see happening.
why else the immediate offensive reactions after my initial post?
can you explain that, constructive, truthfully?

I don't know if you're trolling or not, but you made a statement that is just plain out of left field (that the difference is furries are dogs and nekos are cats) and have provided no actual support for it. I still have no idea where you get this idea from, I've never heard of anything like it before, and it really sounds like you're just plain confused.

1,2 : you
3: aparently make statements that have no data backing them up
4: called you out on 3
5: you were not attacked, you were told your information was incorrect and false
6: because you can not see beyond the fact your statements are in effect just as appropriatly applied to your defense of a statement with no data backng it up.
7: All realavent data is available on the wikis ( wikipedia, furwiki)and elsewhere so our statements are backed up. Where nothing you have posted has any backing available other than you stating it as facts.

finally a constructive input/comment/reaction without offensive side remarks.

well, what i told was what i happen to know, and remembered therefore. It could be missunderstood, or not. Maybe my knowledge is infact right afterall, but changed over time (evolution) and is forgotten about by the modern furries/neko's.
Maybe i'm wrong, and have mixedup something.

nevertheless.. the aggressive comments, after my post have no reason, just because i haven't backed my story up. No, why must one always proof things, why not discuss about it. Did I asked for proof as for the counter comment part? NO, because i wanted to discuss, hear opinions, thoughts, dialogs.. from the brain, not from paper.

besides, sometimes you learn something from another person, who is happen to be a indepth person on the subject, or have found an article or seen a tv broadcast of things.. and that cannot always be found back, as proof in later times. (heck sometimes one even doesn't exactly know the source anymore, since it's long time ago)
and furthermore.. sometimes website articles (especially wiki's have that often), are changed by someone, and therefor the article itself is changed completely as of fact and details.
So, what i'm saying is, that either of us is right or wrong we cannot know for sure here.. therefor the brain comes into play and reasoning/discussing.. instead of slamming the door, because someone cannot instantly proof (or find the proof) the knowlegde..
not being able to proof something, doesn't nessecary mean, that it isn't true or correct. (just remember that)

so, afte that comment, it went downhill... no discussion, cause many had already shut that door instantly. without saying why, or even trying to think about my "knowlegde" i happen to have in my brain.
no instead, immidiate aggresive comments, calling me names etc.
and then, slowly i get irritated, and follow that pattern too. (lowering myself into the same level of communication, as auto response, no offence ment though, it's human nature for most)

anyway.. i'm not intending to be a troll, nor shortsighted.
I guess, we (i vs the rest) where on a different wavelength as intentions wise/reasoning wise.

Vocal minority.

Wow, I almost forgot about that newsgroup...been a long time since I was there.

Wow, you must live someplace that's painfully car-centric in first life; I kinda feel sorry. Around here it's almost the opposite extreme: I've known people on Southeast Portland who own a surrey mostly so they can carpool and still use the diamond lane (the vast majority of diamond lanes here are reserved for human-powered vehicles only) so he doesn't have to sit in traffic through his entire commute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey_(carriage)

I certainly don't know where you got these ancient "facts" from; but it doesn't matter - let's assume for the moment they're true.

Problem is, people nowadays (what you call "modern" use neko to refer to humans with a couple of feline bits, and use the term "furry" to refer to characters who are entirely animal-looking, except for being bipedal, and no matter which particular animal is being represented. Because the vast overwhelming majority of the population uses the terms thus, what they "used to" mean however long ago is no longer germaine - they mean something completely different now. Such is simply the way language evolves.

So, since we do, in fact, live in the "modern" period, and not during the time these words meant what you claim they meant, then you are incorrect about their definition.

To the OP: Yes, I'd call you furry, too.