Why this community hates furries?

[Azor]

So, my penultimate thread in this forum, which regarded the safety of furries in this community, received overwhelmingly negative responses, while my ultimate thread, regarding furry servers, received, aside from two helpful responses, negative and offensive remarks about furries.

I feel, given that one of my closest friend is a furry, that I should address this issue. I plan to do this in the course of two threads, though maybe this one will provoke enough discussion that a second thread won't be necessary. First, why do people hate furries? Then, what, if anything, must be done?

HOMOPHOBIA

Homosexuals and bisexuals have been historically discriminated against throughout the world. While many battles have been fought in favor of their freedom, being almost legally eliminated in some places, this discrimination remains, psychologically and culturally, in every nation, and will persist until the end of past, and perhaps present, generations.

Moreover, the furry fandom is mostly gay or bisexual, with less 50% of them being heterosexual, as surveys indicates. It is also known for its openness, accepting anyone regardless of gender, race or religion.

I, therefore, suspect that part of the aversion towards furries comes also from homophobia.

ZOOPHILIA, BESTIALITY AND OTHER MISCONCEPTIONS

Furries' unusual passion for anthropomorphic animal characters may lead outsiders to the common misconception that the fandom embraces zoophilia and bestiality. In reality, most furries do not express positive feelings towards, nor practice, either of these.

Continuing on the subject of misconceptions, some people believe that furries are people who seek sexual gratification from wearing costumes. This is demonstrably false, as only a minority wear these, and, even in such cases, costuming is just a way of self-expression. Another misconception is that furries want to become non-human, which also is demonstrably false, since an even smaller minority feel that desire.

CULTURE AND MEDIA

Another motive which should be transparent is, like 'nerds' from the 90's and 80's, furry culture isn't accepted as part of mainstream culture, besides being misrepresented and caricatured by the mainstream media. Whether that will change is anyone's guess

CONCLUSION

In this post I have hypothesized that hatred towards furries derive from two factors: prejudice, and misconceptions. Prejudice can be seen in form of homophobia, which is a historical fact not yet eliminated; -- and, one could argue, due to the facilitation of hate speech provided by anonimity of the internet, but such hypothesis won't be argued for here -- and misconceptions originated from the media which has focused on the least representative, but most controversial, parts of the furry fandom (edit: + novelty; furrydom can be said to be a recent phenomenom). I hope that, by demonstrating that these misconceptions are indeed what they are, readers will abandon their hatred towards furries, as well as reconsider their views on the fandom by the suggestion that homophobia may be playing a role in it.

[The Cellular Level™]

But I don’t wanna

[trash]

is this pasta
it's too on the nose for an azor thread

[76561198446327131]

I hate furries because I've always had very bad experiences with them, from harassment for being a woman and insults for no reason, I know not all furries are like that, but usually that happens to me when there is one of them.

[I want to die]

did someone hurts you?

[NW/RL]

I just dislike the fact that they exist

[JPM岩]

Because theyre furries

[Heatmaker]

Because I can dislike what I dislike

[fromgdog]

Gamer politics are discriminatory and disgusting. Thankfully we have Anita who's gonna help us destroy video games.

[Pelvis Pressley]

The people I REALLY hate are necrophillic furries. While us non-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ have to go through a process to get coochie, those bastards just get to pick up some roadkill off the side of the road and get to work. It's so unfair.

By the way, see you when this thread gets locked.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Trolls posing as active Furries and harsh generalization for the most part. Majority of the furries I encounter as just like any normal TF2 player, this includes them almost never talking or interacting with me outside of just playing the game.

[Emurinus]

Funny enough there was recently a furry event near my area.

[Hyer Womba]

i think the reason nobody likes them is because they ruin everything they touch

[fromgdog]

Originally posted by Emurinus (Death To RCs):

Funny enough there was recently a furry event near my area.

How was it?

[Hyer Womba]

Originally posted by Emurinus (Death To RCs):

Funny enough there was recently a furry event near my area.

i heard about those
dont those have people in dog suits trying to touch kids while their mothers pull them away?

[Emurinus]

Originally posted by notterton:

Originally posted by Emurinus (Death To RCs):

Funny enough there was recently a furry event near my area.

How was it?

I didn't even know one was around until one of my customers told me an hour ago. However, my city's more accepting of them.