So, exactly why is anything "furry" so frowned upon?

[Epic cow]

During NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, during November) last year I wrote a book about shapeshifters and the heavy racism that they face in the magical world (everybody hates them). I was just cramming for words so I didn't bother with many details. For example, I never gave much thought to exactly how the shapeshifting worked, I just wrote.

So I was talking with my friend about different ideas as to how shapeshifting works, and how should I do it and what do you think, and what does he say? "Sounds like a furry book to me. Sorry." Which I can totally see something like that. But he kept apologizing for it. "I'm sorry, it's just that it sounds like a furry book to me. Sorry, but it just sounds that way."

It isn't the fact that he called my book furry, it's the fact that he was sorry that he made that connection and that it sounded furry to him.

This has been eating at me all day. Exactly why is anything with a furry conotation instantly frowned upon? There isn't anything even mildly suggestive in the book. No sex, no nudity (nothing beyond "She took off her clothes to prepare for bed."), nothing erotic at all. I suppose that the mere idea of anthropomorphic characters scares people.

>.>  

[justice_prime]

Hmmm... does he know you're a furry?
If not, he might not want to associate you with the furries, as they are a social deviant.  

[Zieko]

I suppose this might anwser one of your questions. Furries are just not accepted by many, to know why they do not, we must ask them.

-Shapeshifters shapeshift by ruducing or increasing the number of molecules and atoms that make them up, rearranging, and changing the elements that make them up as well.- =3  

[AlishkaNix]

i very much like your explanation of shapeshifting, Zav. it sounds so....scientific, haha. as opposed to something just sounding like fantasy.

and Epic, i really don't know. i've asked myself the same thing on several occasions, and often just randomly as a passing thought. i really don't get it. but those people that do say things like that....just get a blank stare from me before i walk away.  

[Epic cow]

cyborg zav

-Shapeshifters shapeshift by ruducing or increasing the number of molecules and atoms that make them up, rearranging, and changing the elements that make them up as well.- =3

Lol. Thanks for the idea. Why didn't I come up with that?

And no, my friend doesn't know I'm a furry. I don't really make a big deal out of it. Still bothers me, though.  

[Sanguvixen]

Hmmm....some people just don't care for books that have anthropomorphic animal characters within in.

I will say the jump between shape-shifter and furry is rather stupid. Animorphs was a book with shape-shifting aliens and humans, but you could not exactly call that a furry book.

Very few "Furry books" exist today. That is because very few furries get published. What we do have however is several anthropomorphic animal series out there...and there is a difference.

One caters to the general public and the other caters specifically to the fandom, and if a person who is not too warm towards the subject of furries gets the idea that a book or a series caters to furries than...they are going to look down on the book as being something they don't like. It's a"Furry Book" made to cater to furries, so they want nothing to do with it.

Does that makes sense?

 

[Felix Rytes]

1: 4chan exists

2: Many people get the wrong image from the internet of other extreme forms of furryness and automatically get the wrong Image painted. Its also human nature to dislike or seem to hate anything thats odd or different, and furrys are DEFINETLY diffurent look/sounding to the average person.  

[Serov]

Possible reasons:

1) furries are linked to beastiality
2) fursuits to majority of the people are a turn off.
3) immaturity
4) lack of information  

[Sanguvixen]

Serov

Possible reasons:

1) furries are linked to beastiality
2) fursuits to majority of the people are a turn off.
3) immaturity
4) lack of information

I'd like to point out

1: Furries are falsely linked to Bestiality
2: Actually what turns people off is the porn, not the suiters.
3: It's more than that, it's the drama
4: There is plenty of info floating out there but it can all be confusing.  

[Shard Of Ronin]

Public perception is easily swayed. Plus, we don't get to fight back.  

[CodyDudeTm]

I think it's because... well... I don't know. There's a lot of hate for us, that's for sure. People think that we're weird because of it, though, I used to go to the Gd for awhile, and they would rip furry threads to shreads.  

[Nekuia]

It's so much that we are frowned on, think back maybe 10 years... furries use to be all the rage. but they've been so over done, people don't care for 'em now. and have started to dis-like us. I'm one of the "fur balls of rage" (when furries where all that) so, I'm kinda not goin' move on untill I'm damn good and ready. but then again I was a neko, before a full furry.most don't know that neko's are furries.  

[Little Kanade]

Nekuia

It's so much that we are frowned on, think back maybe 10 years... furries use to be all the rage. but they've been so over done, people don't care for 'em now. and have started to dis-like us. I'm one of the "fur balls of rage" (when furries where all that) so, I'm kinda not goin' move on untill I'm damn good and ready. but then again I was a neko, before a full furry.most don't know that neko's are furries.

That is actually how I found out about furries.. I was in a neko group and they were all pisses about furries so I looked into them and here I am haha twisted  

[Nekuia]

Little Kanade

Nekuia

It's so much that we are frowned on, think back maybe 10 years... furries use to be all the rage. but they've been so over done, people don't care for 'em now. and have started to dis-like us. I'm one of the "fur balls of rage" (when furries where all that) so, I'm kinda not goin' move on untill I'm damn good and ready. but then again I was a neko, before a full furry.most don't know that neko's are furries.

That is actually how I found out about furries.. I was in a neko group and they were all pisses about furries so I looked into them and here I am haha twisted

Ha! Nekos are furries. if you think about it... I mean, a Neko is a cat furry! they are just half human half furry.  

[Isaol-the-wolf]

tis sad that the most active topic is this...