Damn, the gay furries are out there conquering the world this week. huh.
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Fursuits always look so hot and uncomfortable to me. Can any furries here confirm or deny?
Can confirm.
In fact, furries went out and improved upon the design of military cooling vests to try and beat the heat:
They are in fact hot, but there's ways to be comfortable in a fursuit, such as wearing underarmour/lycra/spandex. Sweat wicking stuff is a life saver in a fursuit.
Motorcycle cooling gear might be what they need. I road with full gear and the ice vests were lifesavers. They usually lasted me a few hours with full gear.
They definitely are. Cons always have a lot of signage up about watching for symptoms of heat stroke, and decent cons will have a “headless lounge” set up as semi-private (fursuiters and assistants only) space to take off parts of your suit and cool down. Usually lots of fans going and freely available water.
Hot, yes. Usually quite comfortable though. Though both depend on the design. And there are cooling options out there; small airflow systems for the heads, and cooling vests that yhe other commentor posted a link to.
Absolutely! but furries tell each other to do self care and protect each other pretty well
The parade was amazing, too. Gotta love the furries.
Do I gotta?
Not physically
Yes owofficer, this normie right here
I wish I was a normie 😭
Yes.
Honestly yeah, people bully them for no reason but they are just a bunch of nerdy gay people. Don't hate.
It's always been the funniest shit for me.
I found most people say it's the fact that we are more promiscuous. Which blows my mind cuz it's like are you really going to try to make fun of people for having more sex than you. Sounds like you need to get laid more loser. LMAO
The real reason they're attacking anybody is that they're "weird" (which is obviously something completely subjective and meaningless), the alleged reasons are made up on the fly to convince themselves that they actually have some weight in their opinions.
Bingo. It's just like how conservatives claim homosexuals are rapists and groomers. Their lifestyle makes them uncomfortable, so they fabricate justifications.
That's so interesting omg. I feel like that's just a really poorly thought out cover for disliking anything too outside the norm. Like people say the same thing about gay men too. But obviously, promiscuity is celebrated for straight men.
Are furries mostly gay? Tbh I don't know anything about furries beyond the fun, cute parade they have every year.
Yes, most but not all. Maybe like 80% are LGBT. I remember seeing some kind of chart showing that, maybe you can Google and find.
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I’ve never grown out of the “furry are creepy” state.
No hate intended, it’s just … unnerving
owo >:3
it's the uncanny valley. I assume you're talking about fursuits, you might find some of the art to be a lot less freaky.
Exactly. Furry art is basically Disney/Pixar talking animals stuff. I don't think I'll ever meet someone who finds that creepy.
yeah, the art is way more proportionate, but you can still find some weird art pieces that give you a little bit of the valley effect, though i think that's more of an intentional thing than a secondary thing with that art specifically.
Thank you Furry community! I did not expect to be thanking you, and feel pretty weird about it, but thank you.
you're welcome :)
Furries run the world :3
Why is Pittsburgh the place to be for furries? I dunno, but I think it's great!
AFAIK Pittsburgh is desperate to keep the con here because it brings in millions of dollars to local businesses. And the furry parade is a big event for the city - families come from all around to watch it.
I think it's mostly because it brings in money and for whatever reason, the community seems to be just fine with it, even if they don't participate or understand it, so from the furry side, they've found a city happy to have them, and from the city side, they like the economic boost, so if everyone's happy, why change?
I was there and did a ton of fursuiting!
I wasn't there this year but it's always nice to hear others helping the community ^_^
The Deal With It shades are awesome.
Tbh as a non furry, a lot of the content I've seen of furries online is highly sexualised.
Is being a furry more than just that or is there primarily always a sexual component to it?
Replace the word "furry" with "cosplaying". Is there Ironman-Spiderman porn? Yes. Is cosplaying just about this? No.
Being a furry isn't always about sexual stuff. It can just be about being cute and silly. For example, you'll see kids wearing furry ears, tails n stuff like that. U'll see kids talking about their "fursona" (a description of what their furry alter ego would look like). Being a furry is primarily about art and just doing fun stuff.
Now, about furry porn- an artist is probably going to draw dicks n boobs some time in their life. Humans are generally very sexual creatures. They're going to introduce sexual stuff in practically anything that they do. That's furry porn. It's not because being a furry is about porn- it's because being a human is about porn.
I mean, if you replace the word furry with human, your quote still fits perfectly.
The Internet is filled with tits and cat videos.