FOR THE SAKE OF OUR SANITY, YOU DON'T HAVE TO "COME OUT" AS FURRY!

[Glitch]

EDIT 10.02.2013: WOW GUYS THREE YEARS NOW and please let me say that I kind of really, really hate how I wrote this post back in my "edgy" rageball days. Please forgive me, because I can assure you that I am not the same little craphead freshman that just figured out how to rant. Idea still stands, but I am actually significantly embarrassed by myself.
~ Still Glitch, just better

Okay, let me say this before I get even more pissed off.

You DO NOT need to "come out" as furry! It is a fucking hobby!

Pardon my French, but good God.
If I see another one of these damn threads, ugh... No matter how you cut it, the furry fandom is a hobby. Do you see anime fans have to "come out" to their family? NO.
So STOP treating the fact that you're a fur like it's some part of your genetics. Hmmm. Kind of like that funny thing called homosexuality.
Yeah. I had to come out to my parents as gay. I highly doubt that your parents would throw you on the street if they find out you like cartoon animals. Being gay is a totally different story, because that is part of someone's true identity and can't be changed if they aren't just faking it for some whoring around.

If anyone outside of my parents found out that I was lesbian, I would be disowned. But EVERYONE knows I'm a furry. They just get a smile put on their face because it's something different. And these are all extreme-Catholics with their undies permajammed up their asses.

Even if you feel that idiotic, deep-seated need to "come out" as furry because your furry pride is burning so brightly or some stupid shit, I'll have to virtually slap you in hopes that you get some damn sense in your head.

My parents learned that I was a furry from the fact that I draw a lot of stuff. They look at my drawings and think that they're pretty cool. I told them I wanted to build a costume of my character, and they thought I was crazy for the sake of spending money.
They let me though.

They didn't rip out the Bible or something like all of you morons here think that any religiously-raised parents would. And these people dragged me along with them to church in hopes that it'd reverse my atheism. Every Sunday...

(And, actually, it just made me even more sure, but that is irrelevant at this point.)

Just to reiterate my point in this thread.

Shut the FUCK up with all of this "come out" bullshit. It pisses off everyone that has more than 2 brain cells in their fuzzy heads.
OR, even better. JUST DON'T TELL THEM.

I will be taking your flames now.
Line forms the the right. Keep it orderly and single file.
I'm cheap and I want to make sure I get the most of you fuckers as possible with each bullet.

For autographs, line forms to the left.
Because Glitchy luffs you guys. <33

 

[the_donut_master]

*points up*

I'm with that guy.

 

[2-Tailed Taymon]

Yeah, I'm a Furry *big shock* but it ain't that important anymore. So Glitch, I totally agree with you on this.

 

[Zane]

*golf clap*
Well said.

 

[Daberu]

I completely agree with you.

 

[Erewolf]

I love how people think being a furry is so important to people, that they would have to come out to it.

 

[Bir]

You never know, there are probably a select few who honestly think that it's important that everyone know what their hobbies are. Also, there are probably a select few who delve further into "furry" than most others would. Not telling your parents, sure, who cares if they know? However, I'd find it very important that my boyfriend knows.

There's a difference. Well said, but it does not apply to everyone.

 

[mcwolfe]

Topic approved ~ Should be stickied :O

 

[icecold24]

Another thing we have to deal with is "furry pride." I jack off to gay anthropomorphic animals, what the fuck do I have to be proud of??

 

[mcwolfe]

^
True. That's why I'm only proud of being gay.

 

[xcliber]

Generally, the people who feel that they need to "come out" often feel that way because they believe it to be a major part of who they are (a major factor/influence in their lives). They are usually the n00bs of the fandom who don't understand that Furry is just a fandom/hobby and not a way of life.

Some people, when they discover the furry fandom, feel like they've found a missing part of themselves and overhype it.

Honestly, I can understand the feeling, but you're right. These people need to take a step back into reality and truly ask themselves why they have any need to tell people about it. It's not a big deal.

Also:

Topic approved ~ Should be stickied :O

^ This ^

 

[BadgerBadgerBadger]

For the love of all things sacred, SOMEONE STICKY THIS POST.

 

[Tabasco]

Pardon your French? Mon dieu, my family is of French descent, fuck you!

Now to tell everyone about how I'm really a blue dog.

 

[wolfrunner7]

This thread pwns ...

Even neurotic and emo as I can be, I have to agree to an extent.

On the other hand, consider that some make a display with the hopes of social acceptance, because let's just face it ... society has some pretty f*d up expectations.

 

[Randy-Darkshade]

You never know, there are probably a select few who honestly think that it's important that everyone know what their hobbies are. Also, there are probably a select few who delve further into "furry" than most others would. Not telling your parents, sure, who cares if they know? However, I'd find it very important that my boyfriend knows.

There's a difference. Well said, but it does not apply to everyone.

The only reason some people would think it is important about who they are, are those who seek attention. Or are lifestylers. Lifestyling IS NOT what furry is about, but lifestyling IS an aspect of the fandom. Lifestyling is just one part of the fandom just like story's, porn, fursuiting, conventions etc etc, they are all just sections within the fandom.

There are only a few occasions when someone may need to tell someone about furryness:

1: If they are under 18 and wish to go to a convention.

2: If they are in a relationship. It is only fair to tell your partner about your hobbies.

But there is still no need at all to "come out" as being furry, I hate it when people use that term because it makes the fandom sound like it is a sexual preference or fetish, which it IS NOT!

I would have less of a problem with lifestylers, otherkins etc etc, all those who are deeper into furry, if they actually told people not everyone in the fandom is like them when they tell people about there interests.

 

[paxil rose]

You have to keep in mind that people that have the desire to "come out" as a furry and display furry pride are usually anti-social pariahs whose only one real defining quality is being a furry. The people that were "furry all thier lives but didn't know what the fandom was until ______", the "Well I think people need to be educated on what furries really are..." and proceeding to give you a rambling history of how the furry fandom started, what furries like etc. whenever something unflattering makes its way on TV (more in terms of 1000 Ways to Die than Tyra, I can see why Tyra pissed you off), these people don't know that beign a furfag isn't a big deal because it's literally all they've ever known in terms of an identity.

Which isn't to say that's an excuse, just saying that they are mental defectives and should be treated as such.

 

[twelvestring]

The only reason some people would think it is important about who they are, are those who seek attention. Or are lifestylers. Lifestyling IS NOT what furry is about, but lifestyling IS an aspect of the fandom. Lifestyling is just one part of the fandom just like story's, porn, fursuiting, conventions etc etc, they are all just sections within the fandom.

There are only a few occasions when someone may need to tell someone about furryness:

1: If they are under 18 and wish to go to a convention.

2: If they are in a relationship. It is only fair to tell your partner about your hobbies.

But there is still no need at all to "come out" as being furry, I hate it when people use that term because it makes the fandom sound like it is a sexual preference or fetish, which it IS NOT!

I would have less of a problem with lifestylers, otherkins etc etc, all those who are deeper into furry, if they actually told people not everyone in the fandom is like them when they tell people about there interests.

I think I'm in agreement with this. I don't mind if people want to "come out".
I just wish they'd be more specific.
Come out about being therian. ok
Come out about being a life styler. ok
Come out about being furry. pointless

 

[wolfrunner7]

I think I'm in agreement with this. I don't mind if people want to "come out".
I just wish they'd be more specific.
Come out about being therian. ok
Come out about being a life styler. ok
Come out about being furry. pointless

In my experience line 3 is just a plain bad idea...

 

[Carenath]

...lifestyling IS an aspect of the fandom. Lifestyling is just one part of the fandom...

I would have less of a problem with lifestylers, otherkins etc etc, all those who are deeper into furry...

Furry is NOT a LIFESTYLE
Lifestyling is as much an aspect of the fandom.. as flufftard otakukin are of otherkin (or therianthropy). That is, anyone with a brain between their two ears can see they're not playing with a full deck (or they're trolls).

Furry is NOT a SPIRITUALITY
Otherkin are not 'deeper into furry' they are completely orthogonal, the relationship between the two groups is not mutually inclusive.

 

[mcwolfe]

~ Yay for sticky !

 

[8-bit]

I agree with the OP.

 

[Bir]

I think I'm in agreement with this. I don't mind if people want to "come out".
I just wish they'd be more specific.
Come out about being therian. ok
Come out about being a life styler. ok
Come out about being furry. pointless

So y'all are just angry that people used the words "come out" right? I can understand that. It really isn't a sexuality or huge thing to have such a title. Kinda like "feline," in which there are many, many types. You just have to specify.

Understandable.

But there are people who feel the need to express their lifestyle, if they do have a furry lifestyle. Now, a furry lifestyle doesn't mean just browsing thousands of anthro drawings every day or having ten tails, but something much more, like the Cat Man or Serpent Man, in which yes, they absolutely feel the need to come out because it is all they base their lives on, which is fine. If they don't come out and say they're a furry or explain it to someone, everyone but the people involved with the furry fandom would be confused as to why they are changing their humanly figures to something more animalistic. In fact, most people might just think they're goths or punks or something, and not even think twice that they're trying to be more like their fursonas. So, to the person who already explained this, I agree.

Now, I do agree also that it's sickening to see how many people want to "come out" as a furry, when they don't take being a furry as seriously as the people mentioned above do. It's almost as if they're mocking those who deeply feel a connection to an animal, and just posting for attention. But you know, "coming out" to you might mean something like "Just saying I'm a furry" to someone else.

Now, as far as I've seen, about 99% of the people in this forum agree that it's something to keep to yourself, and it doesn't matter if everyone knows or not. But, like I said, there are people who need to announce everything, as different or as stupid as it may seem to most people.

 

[Viva]

HAY U GUYS! BIENG A FURY IS A PART OF WOH I AM AND I THIKN I NED 2 COM OUT OF TH FURY CLOSET! OMG LOL

 

[mcwolfe]

^
I actually still don't know what they mean by "furry closet" ~

 

[Bir]

^
I actually still don't know what they mean by "furry closet" ~

Kinda like... a gay closet? I dunno. They say "come out of the closet" when someone finally lets it be known that they are gay or bisexual.

A furry closet is like... hiding the fandom? Stupid, in a way. But to some, important.