Do you consider bronies to be furries?

[Sunshower Raindrops 3,227]

There should be a poll for this.

[AppleDerpy20 59]

Well then, we will have to agree to disagree.

 

Media and Entertainment I consider 'furry':

Disney's Robinhood (movie), Kung Fu Panda (movie), Cats Don't Dance (movie), Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers (tv series), Darkwing Duck (tv series), Ducktales (tv series), Talespin (tv series), Animaniacs (tv series), Sonic SatAM (tv series), Starfox series (video game) Redwall book series, Mouse Guard comic series, Dreamkeepers comic series, Ironclaw and Jadeclaw roleplaying games... and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

 

Well I find it both insulting and untrue, as much so as the stereotypes given to Bronies.

I had a pretty horrendous experience with furries. They hounded me and kicked me to the ground and mocked me, so I decided to basically abandon and shun them. x-x

[Windseeker 546]

Well then... for me the above lidt is what leads m to be a furry.

 

Thank you for your considerate and thoughtful words on who and what I am as a furry, telling me that I am wrong. I do so appreciate such insults and stereotyping. It is nice to see people taking the worst of a fandom and insisting it is the norm.

-If you cannot tell, I'm being sarcastic and actually find myself want to be less nice then I have been-

 

... perhaps I am the exception to the 'rule', as it were, on who and what furries are.

Yeah I would go with the last line. I been in the furry community for almost ten years, I loved Vicky Fox, City of Unity, and Ozy and Millie (even read the Jewel Vixens from time to time).

 

It's just so many of them don't appreciate cartoons any more, and cartoons were the core of the furry fandom. Now it's just a evil subculture that tears itself from the inside-out and lash at everyone around them because they truly don't understand why people hate them. I left because of the drama and the depravity.

Well I find it both insulting and untrue, as much so as the stereotypes given to Bronies.

Are you implying that what he said was a stereotype?

[GreyScholar 1,584]

Yeah I would go with the last line. I been in the furry community for almost ten years, I loved Vicky Fox, City of Unity, and Ozy and Millie (even read the Jewel Vixens from time to time).

 

It's just so many of them don't appreciate cartoons any more, and cartoons were the core of the furry fandom. Now it's just a evil subculture that tears itself from the inside-out and lash at everyone around them because they truly don't understand why people hate them. I left because of the drama and the depravity.

Are you implying that what he said was a stereotype?

Strange, as I have had mostly positive experiances with the furry fandom... though perhaps I jist jave enough sense on what places on the internet to avoid.

 

Onto your question... yes I consider it a stereotype. Of note taking what is true for some in a group and applying it to the whole group... through such making it untrue and insulting.

Edited June 10, 2014 by EquestrianScholar

[Windseeker 546]

Strange, as I have had mostly positive experiances with the furry fandom... though perhaps I jist jave enough sense on what places on the internet to avoid.

 

Onto your question... yes I consider it a stereotype. Of note taking what is true for some in a group and applying it to the whole group... through such making it untrue and insulting.

Well, it's a majority so I guess it's not a stereotype.... usually furries blame everything bad about themselves by accusing the 'misconceiving' portrayal of the furry fandom on social media.

[GreyScholar 1,584]

Well, it's a majority so I guess it's not a stereotype.... usually furries blame everything bad about themselves by accusing the 'misconceiving' portrayal of the furry fandom on social media.

... again, I disagree but I can't fotce you to change your mind. Especially since you have been part o the fandom for 10 years. Still I find it annoying and amazing how in ten years of being furries we see the same thing so differently.

 

Explain to me how I have not see all the crap you seem to have, how in ten years I don't see the furry community as horrible and despicable as you do? How can we have such different experiances?

[Windseeker 546]

Explain to me how I have not see all the crap you seem to have, how in ten years I don't see the furry community as horrible and despicable as you do? How can we have such different experiances?

Look at where it all began, where have you been first introduced to the furry community?

[True Rarity 1,240]

Not at all. I'm not opposed to furries in the slightest, I'm just not one myself. It's as simple as that.

[Fluttershutter 2,457]

I don't have fur, I don't dress up in furry suits. If "furry" means something else could somebody give me an official definition?

[GreyScholar 1,584]

Look at where it all began, where have you been first introduced to the furry community?

Well it would probably be the tv shows I watch as a kid that would lead me into finding myself becoming a furry later on. Redwall was my favorite book series growing up and even today I have fond memories of it, if I get the time I will try rereading the series. Ducktales, Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Talespin, Animaniacs, Sonic SatAM were all tv series I grew up with. Disney's Robin Hood was a movie I enjoyed, the ones with Mickey and the others, as well as most Disney movies with talking animal whether they wore clothes or not.

More recently I have watch and greatly enjoyed Kung Fu Panda, and one of my favorite races of the TCG Magic the Gathering is Leonin. Of which one of my favorite cards is Mirri the Cursed (a black card, my least favorite color). There is also plenty of Anime with 'furry' like characters that I enjoy.

 

It was through all this I would get into what many would call 'true' furry arts and comics: Whether it was Sabrina Online (one of my favorites) or Dreamkeepers (though it was never called furry). I joined FurAffinity and discovered many great pieces of art... while making sure my filter was on so as to avoid the stuff I didn't want. I also found Jay Naylor... though he admittingly frustrates me as he is an artist with great talent and fair writing ability but wastes his time mostly on adult comics. I discovered his New World comic and really wish it wasn't on permanent hiatus. More, he is considered a artist with a small name, big ego who doesn't take criticism well.

 

Moving on I discovered the roleplays Ironclaw and Jadeclaw, which seems very interesting yet I haven't been able to find a large enough group to participate in a campaign. On an amusing note, Ironclaw pays homage to the Anime character Lina Inverse called Mavra, the Ineluctable Sorceress.

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Admittingly, perhaps what has saved me from becoming disillusioned and cynical (even hateful) like you about the furry fandom is I haven't really join and been very active in many communities. That and what furries I do know, more directly, are decent people.

Edited June 10, 2014 by EquestrianScholar

[mars 4,862]

I don't hate the furry fandom, but I don't particularly care for them. So I don't consider myself a furry in the slightest. Bronies and Furries are two different fandoms, so I don't consider Bronies to be Furries either. Unless... they ALSO consider themselves Furries. Then that's another story.

[Windseeker 546]

Well it would probably be the tv shows I watch as a kid that would lead me into finding myself becoming a furry later on. Redwall was my favorite book series growing up and even today I have fond memories of it, if I get the time I will try rereading the series. Ducktales, Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Talespin, Animaniacs, Sonic SatAM were all tv series I grew up with. Disney's Robin Hood was a movie I enjoyed, the ones with Mickey and the others, as well as most Disney movies with talking animal whether they wore clothes or not.

More recently I have watch and greatly enjoyed Kung Fu Panda, and one of my favorite races of the TCG Magic the Gathering is Leonin. Of which one of my favorite cards is Mirri the Cursed (a black card, my least favorite color). There is also plenty of Anime with 'furry' like characters that I enjoy.

 

It was through all this I would get into what many would call 'true' furry arts and comics: Whether it was Sabrina Online (one of my favorites) or Dreamkeepers (though it was never called furry). I joined FurAffinity and discovered many great pieces of art... while making sure my filter was on so as to avoid the stuff I didn't want. I also found Jay Naylor... though he admittingly frustrates me as he is an artist with great talent and fair writing ability but wastes his time mostly on adult comics. I discovered his New World comic and really wish it wasn't on permanent hiatus. More, he is considered a artist with a small name, big ego who doesn't take criticism well.

 

Moving on I discovered the roleplays Ironclaw and Jadeclaw, which seems very interesting yet I haven't been able to find a large enough group to participate in a campaign. On an amusing note, Ironclaw pays homage to the Anime character Lina Inverse called Mavra, the Ineluctable Sorceress.

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Admittingly, perhaps what has saved me from becoming disillusioned and cynical (even hateful) like you about the furry fandom is I haven't really join and been very active in many communities. That and what furries I do know, more directly, are decent people.

I didn't take the cartoon approach to the fandom, so yeah we traveled down completely different paths. To be honest, the first three of years being a member I didn't know it had anything to do with cartoons until I became a fan of Digimon and discovered the large amount of Renamon art on Furaffinity. I first found about furries when I stumbled across a Road Rover fansite made by Alethia, the art wasn't sexual in nature but it was so highly detailed and the characters were gorgeous. Been saving those kind of pictures for the rest of the years to come.

 

I loved City of Unity and played a little on Feila.org and I pretty much lurk in Furtopia forums and I loved reading comics like Vicky Fox. I was a huge fan of Pokemorphs and I enjoyed the PokeCombat Academy series as I often find myself reading fan fictions of them as well.

 

So I guess you can say I was way more involved with the community itself than you. I was like scouring the internet searching for acceptance a few years ago anyways.

[GreyScholar 1,584]

@, 

I am a Digimon fan myself, and I will not deny that Renamon is without a doubt one of my favorite. Digimon Tamers in general was my favorite growing up and I plan on going back to rewatch at least the first three generations of Digimon.

 

I have heard of Road Rover, but interestingly it was never a show I watched. Still haven't

 

Furtopia is a place of I have had 'some' activity on, but that got left behind because of my many other interests.

 

Pokemorphs? The closest I know to that was an idea someone came up with called Pokegirls... which I found interesting though I had to deal with the fact it was more adult oriented. Instead of there being Trainers you had Tamers and when you capture a Pokegirl, to prevent them from going feral, the Tamer had to make sure his 'Harem' was taken care of. Amusing, but not something I got into the way others did. Heck I even started a story involving Pokegirls, on chapter, that I had told myself I would keep PG 13. A man who with an Infernal team who would adopt a daughter that would grow up to have a Celestial team, the idea being it would be her journey with the end result of facing her father in battle. There was also a side plot where one calling himself the Dark Master (or something like that) took the Dark ball plans from Jonathon, the soon to be father... who had taken the plans from Giovanni of Team Rocket. It was through this interaction that he would find a girl who mother was killed by this villain and blaming himself so take her in and adopt her. 

 

Moving on I am not blind to the more unpleasant and adult aspects of the Furry Fandom, I just don't believe that should be judged as the focus or even interest of all or even most furries.

Edited June 10, 2014 by EquestrianScholar

[Guest]

Nah, not at all. Being a brony doesn't mean you would be a furry, except if you are one, of course.

[GreyScholar 1,584]

@,

As I said before in another post, though in less words: Some Furries are Bronies while others are not and some Bronies are Furries while others are not. There are those of both fandoms that hate the other. 

[Guest]

As I said before in another post, though in less words: Some Furries are Bronies while others are not and some Bronies are Furries while others are not. There are those of both fandoms that hate the other. 

I don't hate furries, but I don't really care much either. And yeah that's right, I've seen both, bronies who hate furries and furries who hate on bronies. 

[Sugar Pea 2,682]

I believe that furries are on equal terms with bronies, in a sense considering that both fandoms like animals with human characteristics whether it's a variety or just ponies. I'm not sure why people are comparing them on this thread, but just in case, I decided to give my two cents on that one. xD

Anywehs, I did have an obsession with furries and a certain fursona I created a while back. My uncle got me into them, and I made this character named Lulu the Hammer Slinging Hamcat. Something of that sorts, anyway. ^^'

I did consider myself a furry, but now I don't think have the privilege to call myself one because I haven't been into the fandom for a while. I guess you can say i'm a former furry, but until I get back into the program with a new fursona, i'm going to hang back. 
 

[kelseymarie805 301]

I don't consider myself to be that no, and i think it's stupid for people to call us that, there's a difference between being a furry and being a brony, they're two different fandoms and just b/c someone is a "brony" doesn't make them a furry.