Furries.

[Aquaplant]

Originally Posted by Jazza

Uh, I'm going to step in for a second. Many people have different opinions about furries and if you're classified as one.

Being a furry is having a warm and "cuddly" personality, with a (usually sexual) interest in anthro art to the point in that you may wear fursuits or visit conventions or wear animalistic features on your body.

I really like anthro and I have a good collection of art. I'm also sexually attracted to it. I don't have the personality and I don't fursuit, but I want to go to a convention just for the fun of it. So I consider myself a bit of a furry, since I'm interested in the community and meeting other people interested in the art.

Having an interest in anthro art does not automatically make you a furry


Edit: Disclaimer - this is my opinion on the subject. I've only had a recent interest in anthro and the furry fandom.

Well even vague labels got to have some meaning behind them, otherwise they are pointless. One could think of them sort of like metadata tags, that let the application, or in this case, another person to know what kind of possible attributes a particular person might have.

Then again these types of tags should be more or less explicit, because unlike humans, applications usually can't make assumptions. And since assumptions themselves can be highly inaccurate, one would have to conclude that using tags or labels is pointless to begin with if they are not 100% accurate.

So if you label yourself as furry, what does that mean? What would a random person assume if you had such a tag? In reality none of us have any real tags, that is we have tags, but they have no information value in them. Because that information merely resides within those who interpret them, because it's a subjective experience, so no matter how you would define this particular tag, it would have no effect on how someone else might interpret it. That is unless you were able to manipulate their point of view beforehand, but that's besides the point.

Anyways I think I just wrote too much, but said so little.