Furries

[Python Blue]

What yamina-chan said. The perverse side exists in every fandom. However... I will admit there's a certain lack of tact with some furries. And MLP fans too, as it happens.

Personally I think the term is waved around a bit too much. I'm sure a large amount of kids watched animal cartoons as kids, and drew them, if they were potential artists. So are they furries? Nah, that seems silly. Liking or drawing animals or animal characters doesn't necessarily make you a furry. It's complicated though, because those into the dressing up as their own critters, I would use the term for.

I wouldn't really use the term for myself, in part because I consider my human characters often more interesting and complex than my "alien" ones. Then again though, I am all behind that affinity shtick, so... buh.

Oh humanity and your labels.

Lack of tact? May be what I'm trying to get at. Thing is, it's true that there are innuendos everywhere, but it's much more subtle in some forms than in others. Furries seeming to be the more obvious.

You do have a good point about kids, though. I think the word should apply to fewer people; most people seem to have an affinity to an animal of some sort, very few of them being sexually attracted to them.

Indeed; if there were no labels, our world might be a better place, in music as well as in communities. :P