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does like werewolfs make me a furry?

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silverfang at 14 Mar 2007: 15:03

topic

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silverfang at 14 Mar 2007: 15:04

let me reword that
does liking werewolves make me a furry?

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DragonMayne at 14 Mar 2007: 16:02

If you like them alot and can really see your self as one....id say yeah. Well...maybe if you obsess over them like me.

Thats how i found out about furry art and this whole subculture to begin with...Welcome to the club.

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silverfang at 14 Mar 2007: 16:25

wow i thought i was the only one

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Ultraviolet at 14 Mar 2007: 19:29

It was my love of werewolves and in fact I think Werewolves in Suburbia that introduced me to 'the fandom'.

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at 15 Mar 2007: 05:53

>>2
I guess it depends on which of the disparate definitions of "furry" you go by. I'd say probably the best answer is "If you want it to make you furry, then, sure!"

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at 16 Mar 2007: 16:59

i herd u liek werewolfs

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at 16 Mar 2007: 17:00

Now that I'm done being an idiot, I think >>6 is unequivocably correct.

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at 16 Mar 2007: 22:58

*sigh* Is this thread about Liru?

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at 17 Mar 2007: 00:00

silverfang, do you have dreadlocks?

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silverfang at 17 Mar 2007: 02:51

not dreadlock but cornrolls and i dont now who liru is

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at 17 Mar 2007: 03:11

colorful cornrolls?

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silverfang at 17 Mar 2007: 03:20

nope

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at 17 Mar 2007: 03:54

you are the wrong silverfang

it's okay though ^_^

welcome to being a furry. pick up your tail and ears at the registration desk.

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Aborn! at 17 Mar 2007: 06:17

Aborn! -Bad dog, no biscut! - <3 Sam

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at 17 Mar 2007: 07:25

Cornrolls??? Like muffins?

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silverfang at 17 Mar 2007: 11:46

nope like the hair style

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at 17 Mar 2007: 11:59

Or, cornrows!

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at 21 Mar 2007: 03:11

>>1
Q. >>does like werewolfs make me a furry?

A. Yes.

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at 21 Mar 2007: 09:50

>>20

Doh! Where were you at the start of all this??? You could have ended it with that one post.

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Sunmaker at 21 Mar 2007: 10:23

You can like furries and not BE a furry. I know a few people who are like that. So likeing werewolves, or were-anythings for that matter, dosnt nessisarily make you a furry. Now if you want to BE a werewolf, then thats a different story.

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at 21 Mar 2007: 14:27

Or you could want to be a werewolf who isn't a furry!

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at 21 Mar 2007: 14:28

April Solomon is that you?

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at 21 Mar 2007: 16:28

>>22
Thinking that it would be cool to be a werewolf is enough to make you a furry -- even if the person doesn't have the guts to follow through on it if presented the opportunity.

See: http://www.ranting-gryphon.com/Other/whatisfurry.htm
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/furry/faq/section-3.html

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at 21 Mar 2007: 16:56

You are only a furry if you consider yourself a furry. Labels are something you choose to attach to yourself, if you don't agree with the label then it should be brushed off as ignorance. I like a lot of things within the furry fandom but I like a lot of things in other fandoms too. If I were to label myself according to every interest I have i'd end up being some ridiculous shit like "furry yaoifanboy techfan art connisueur(sp?) music fan, food fan" and so on and so forth. My interests(as in i'm truly interested in learning everything about it) span so widely...i'd never feel right calling myself a furry because it would be like saying one interest is more important than the other. I believe in expanding my mind and learning everything there is to learn so I just wouldn't be comfortable with that.

If you like anthromorphic stuff and nothing else...or your main interests focus on anthromorphic things...I guess it's alright to call yourself a furry.

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at 21 Mar 2007: 18:17

>>26
Hey, I'm a food fan too! I try to have some every day!

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at 21 Mar 2007: 19:27

>>27
LAWL -- everyone's a food fan. If people are not a fan of food, they starve to death. I believe if you are not a fan of food -- that makes you more unusual than a furry fan.

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at 21 Mar 2007: 21:39

>>28
I am scared to tell my friends I am a food fan because they saw that MTV special on Foodies. :(

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at 21 Mar 2007: 22:07

>>26
I do consider myself a furry and I agree with you. A person is only a furry if they consider themself such.

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at 21 Mar 2007: 23:00

>>30
 Or unless they actually have a coat of fur growing on them.

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at 21 Mar 2007: 23:48

No, it doesn't, the term furry is a new one and furries like to make themselves seem acceptable, were egyptians furries, no, they just had a religion nearly like all others that associated with animal beings, are cat-girls furries only for when furries want 4chantards to accept them.

You aren't a furry unless you want to conform to the stereo type, just like you aren't a goth/emokid/popiconlover unless you conform.

Don't limit your horizons and label yourself or let anyone else label you. That is all.

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at 22 Mar 2007: 00:35

>>32
I don't think I fit any "furry stereotypes" except the very general ones that apply to anyone who spends too much time on the internet.

That said, I find the term useful. It's a lot easier to say than "i find anthropomorphized depictions of animals intriguing and often erotic." So I've no problem applying this "label" of furry to myself. I don't believe that "limits my horizons" in any way. And I find your comment strange and confusing. What's wrong with the word?

You sound like a bad motivational speaker.

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at 22 Mar 2007: 01:02

>>33
You're a human being, nothing more nothing less :] you just happen to have interests. If your want to catergorise yourself.....well fine, but that's you, I'm responding to the first post's question.

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at 22 Mar 2007: 01:02

>>34
*you

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at 22 Mar 2007: 01:23

>>34
In addition to species, I also happen to have an economic class, a sex, a gender, an orientation, a primary language, a familiarity with US culture, a skin color, an educational background, a lot of internalized propaganda, a bit of internalized oppression, a few groups of friends, some former romantic relationships, and some opinions about the origins and future of replicating organisms, which necessarily shape my outlook.

It would be pretty stupid of me to pretend I don't have these things, or that I can simply ignore them or wish them away. Deny it if you must, but you two come with baggage. You can admit it, learn about it, try to understand yourself better, and try to understand how it is you found yourself here (biologically and socioeconomically).

Perhaps you already do and we're talking at cross purposes. If you meant "liking wearwolves doesn't mean you need to say 'yiff' or wear a fursuit," then I agree. I just don't find a self-descriptive word inherently limiting, is all.

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at 22 Mar 2007: 01:24

"you too", that is. Not Bono.

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