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St.Clair:
All fans of Disney's Robin Hood, on the other hand, are automatically furries.
This is known.

John Allenson:
as regards to the furry discussion....

I identify with Marten in this comic, comfortable chair - WHEEEEE!!

As to the geek hierarchy chart, I claim sixteen of the boxes!

Isn't there an overlap between furry and shifter fandoms?

(Edit spelling)

dutchrvl:
Marten, please and thank you.

Akima:
Am I too late to suggest that Claire looked udderly horrified?

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: oddtail on 09 Nov 2021, 00:46 --- (click to show/hide)
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 08 Nov 2021, 20:37 ---Add to that the general scale of the character's anthropomorphization, often referred to as 'Level of Furry' regardless of which of the two above definitions you're going with. There's dozens of visual graphics for this, but for an idea: Thundercats is (highly anthropomorphized) scaling to MLP (talking animal).

EDIT: Seems there's a couple varieties since last I checked. 5, 7, or 9 levels. In the cases with additional levels, level 1 trnds to be 'not a furry' and is a human wearing a animal ear headband with a fake tail clipped to their pants. Level 7or 8 is a non-talking non-sapient cartoon animal (typically labrled 'please reconsider'). Level 9 seems to be a non-talking photorealistic animal labeled 'Just NO. Go back!' or something to that effect.


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"level of furry" is an idea made up by non-furries who both want to shit on furries *and* want to justify drooling over anime catgirls, but they couldn't handle the cognitive dissonance. So they made up a stupid arbitrary metric explaining why their own kinks are Not Creepy, Actually.

Which I mean, fair. Any kink is creepy from a certain perspective. But:

a) Furries are the Internet's favourite punching bag, and it's tiresome because it's so arbitrary (see this: https://xkcd.com/471/ );
b) Hating on furries quite often has homophobic and transphobic undertones, because the furry fandom has been very LGBT-friendly pretty much since its inception, and any attempts by e.g. (crypto)fascists to infilitrate or co-opt it have always met with a strong pushback (compared to some other fandoms or hobbies).

Or to put it in simpler terms: hating on furries is  a very "4chan" thing, as is trying to put "how furry is it?" on a scale. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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I'm actually familiar with points a and b (click to show/hide)(I'm also a furry to a degree). If any kink is going to be made a punching bag, I'm surprised it's not blimping or vore (if you don't know what those are, don't look it up).

EDIT: added spoiler so the post wasn't so long.

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