Questions about Furries

Oh, that type of pet. I was getting my threads mixed up. Yes, two of my three kitties, I'm sure, walk around nude. The third keeps being found in odd spots doing odd things. Not sure if he dresses or not, though.

Alright, enough of the furry bashing. I happen to be a furry, and the problem is that furries get a lot of bad reputation for being sexual deviants. They think we're satanist who screw our dogs. I'll tell you right now there are about as many of those in the furry fandom as anywhere else in the non-furry genre. Just check out the beastiality websites. I'll wager not one of them who is getting a horse dick between their legs is also wearing a fursuit.

Furries come from the same thought base that spawned some of the ancient mythologies about Gods. In fact, Anthropomorphism which is commonly used to talk about furries is a term used in the Catholic art circles. Its a term contributing human parts to God (the breath of God, the hand of God, etc.) It was later used to add human characteristics to animals, thus the use of Anthropomorphism for furries.

But furries are what most humans used to define stuff that was outside of a normal human thought processes, namely those higher beings. The best example is the Egyptian pantheon of Gods, such as Ra, Seth, and Bastet. There are even aborigine cave paintings depicting antelope and kangaroo-shaped humans on cave walls dating hundreds of thousands of years back. Lets not forget Greek and roman myths, including Harpies and the minotaur. The Japanese had the Kitsune, a fox spirit that took human form and did magic and mischief. The native Americans had Coyote the trickster, the half man, half coyote spirit that also was a mischief maker. In fact, the American Indians were so attuned to animals, that their myths barely could distinguish human from animal.

Books and literature such as Orson Wells' 'Animal Farm' depicted animals with human qualities, such as greed, lust for power, and the more negative aspects of humanity. Other books including the Jungle book, Beatrix Potter and the Redwall series all had animals with human-like qualities and personalities.

Today in our modern culture, furries are all around. They sell Breakfast cereal, entertain us on saturday morning cartoons, and promote businesses with their character on the product. Tony the tiger, the Trix Rabbit, Bugs bunny, and Road Rovers to name a few. None of these are depicted as sex maniacs or deviants, but a reflection on our own humanity.

In fact, popular animator Chuck Jones once said, "Why do animated cartoonists use animals? For the same reason that Aesop, La Fontaine, Kipling, Beatrix Potter, and Kenneth Grahme did: it is easier and far more believable to humanize animals than it is to humanize humans." (from Chuck Amuck)

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That was an excellent first post, I loved the Chuck Jones line.

Actually furry bashing was due to resume next week, we are currently picking on child avi's.

Yeah, let´s try to keep it to one thing at a time

That was quite a first post indeed and only a few weeks off either way