The funny thing is, one of them is into anime and the other is always giving him crud about WHERE ARE THEY?! and scantily clothed school girls. So yeah...don't think that would work...at least for the latter of the two.Sleet wrote:Just tell them it's perfectly clean. Compare it to anime: being a furry doesn't mean you do dirty stuff any more than being an anime fan means you're into WHERE ARE THEY?!.
Yeah, furries get a lot of guff from the internet, mostly for the explicit side of it. That's one reason why I don't just call myself a furry because people automatically think fetish. Also, another forum spoke on the topic, saying how furries are the only group who are vocal about their fetish and most people link it to Diet of Worms, which is just plain stupid for a number of reasons. I'm glad you were able to show your friend it's not all bad. I was telling my friends earlier: 90% of good comics are anthropomorphic in some way, and 50% of those are explicit, meaning if you read webcomics, there's a high chance the ones you like will be anthropomorphic, it's just a matter finding the non-**** ones.WolvenPaw15 wrote:Why do people look down on furries?
I mean we haven't done anything THAT bad have we?
I had a friend who rejected me because I was a furry (But then she talked to me about it, wanting to know more about the clean side of furries so I explained and now we are cool)
And are footbal mascots considered furry?
Because people don't really seem to acknowledge them as such :l
Also football mascots are thought of as the geeky kids trying to be involved in football without requiring skill or athleticism rather than furries.