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Furry Chat => General => Topic started by: icy wolf on October 21, 2011, 03:05:08 PM
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ive noticed over year of going to fur meets talking to furs and cons that there are alot of males in the fandom the, and there are very few females ( its not a problem ) but why is that ? what are your thoughts on this ?
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well im not sure why but all i know is its what first caused a lot of furry's to turn bisexual (though these days there are many more reasons) but yeah its strange why there is very few female furs..
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the amount of female ( biologcal) furs i know in rl are 6 and i know over 60 male or have meet over 60 male furs in rl. the ones i know online are around the same.
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I still find that to be baffling. I hang out with mostly male furries but I know *so* many female furries. >.>
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My though is that since the fandom is such an accepting place, that many men who are trying to find themselves come to the fandom (And often stay due to it being the place they discovered themselves), because of this, (and because very few women need help finding themselves, they already are quite accepting [not to stereotype] they don't exactly need help finding themselves) we have more males by majority.
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intrsting thought there. or is it beacuse there are more males on earth then females ?m
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intrsting thought there. or is it beacuse there are more males on earth then females ?m
Actually, its quite the contrary.
Female population is larger than male by a 1:1.2 ratio.
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If we want to call furry a nerdy or geeky subculture, then it's one of many such places with a more noticeable male population. Keyword "noticeable."
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it is a very odd thing... and i do have a somewhat strange reason which may or may not be true;
you kind of have this exact thing for any kind of subculture. you don't get many female metal-heads going to festivals, you don't get many female rappers or going to rap shows, you don't get girls going to re-enact viking battles or anything like that. i think it has something to do with identity, hence why you don't see many black guys at metal shows and things like that.
i know it's a very bizarre assumption, but i don't think that women feel so much of a need to cling onto an identity, because we live in a male dominated society.
who knows... this is just something i've created with my own imagination based on very loose information.
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it is a very odd thing... and i do have a somewhat strange reason which may or may not be true;
you kind of have this exact thing for any kind of subculture. you don't get many female metal-heads going to festivals, you don't get many female rappers or going to rap shows, you don't get girls going to re-enact viking battles or anything like that. i think it has something to do with identity, hence why you don't see many black guys at metal shows and things like that.
i know it's a very bizarre assumption, but i don't think that women feel so much of a need to cling onto an identity, because we live in a male dominated society.
who knows... this is just something i've created with my own imagination based on very loose information.
thats an intresting idea. but with every sub culiter there arent that many females in it. i think the only one thats equal is the aniame fans. gamers, like furrys are male domnated
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Or maybe the females just aren't that "social" about it.
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yes, that could be true.
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something to do with it is have you noticed a vast majority of people join the fandom in the first place due to the internet, and it could be males explore further out their comfort zone to try finding a new acceptance as many have said or whatever their personal reason and happen to stumble across it. i believe if more females were to come across antro art or sites there might be more female furs. from my point of view there seem to be more female anime lovers than men(could be wrong) and there are alot of manga that come close to anthropomorphic art
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oh hmm well that dose make seanes i guess.
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maybe its because guys generaly spend more time on the web surfing, where girls chat.
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As a female, I would like to politely disagree with your statement about women in general not having to find themselves or having an easier time with anything. Having to find out who you are is what makes being a teenager so full of stress. Nearly everyone goes through it at some point or another.
There are a lot of female furs out there; more than people tend to think. I've seen a whole bunch of artists on FA who are female. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.
Also, the furry fandom itself might not be the cause of having more males than females, but rather the nature of it. It's mainly a subculture born from the internet, and in general there tends to be more guys just using computers on an everyday basis than girls. I've taken enough computer classes to know that there's very often only 1 girl for every 5 guys that are actually interested in being involved in computers beyond the level of knowledge required to check e-mail or Facebook. That ratio is slowly changing over time, but the the world of computers itself is male dominated.
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The argument that WZ makes is a good one and dose seem quite logcal.
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I've been on this forum for a while ... and I've been to ton's of cons ... its actually pretty even ratio of Male/Female
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As a female, I would like to politely disagree with your statement about women in general not having to find themselves or having an easier time with anything. Having to find out who you are is what makes being a teenager so full of stress. Nearly everyone goes through it at some point or another.
Of course, I might be wrong in what I'm saying. Simply stating that in my observation it seems easier for females to discuss personal matters (such as sexuality) with each other than it is for males. Of course, I cannot know anything for sure, but I have personally witnessed girls discussing sexuality with each other with curiosity, but if anything even remotely close to it is brought up within a group of males, it's either joked away, ignored as if desperately trying to avoid the subject or given ye old disgusted stare. Not to mention that the only openly gay male I know is constantly given a hard time because of it, but my bisexual female friend is really treated like everyone else.
So really, what I'm feeling is that females are generally more tolerant to "abnormal" things than males, especially stuff that is not normally associated with your assigned sex.
But, like I said, it may be a special case where I come from, or me not seeing things clearly.
that could be true, i know a fur non furs who are hetrosexual and they tend to make jokes about not beeing str8, and stuff like that. as with the furs i know that are hetrosexual they dont make those jokes. not sure how it is with females. i know alot of furs who are open minded and dont care about who you find atractive.
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I used to think that this fandom would be female dominate because of the making of the fursuits or art....
Meh, still haven't been to a fur meet yet
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how so ?
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i can see where he is coming from, for i know in atleast my family and around here it seems like females care more for animals than males do. and for the fact the fandom revolves greatly around animals i could see people thinking it would be a very female dominant or atleast a very close ratio for both sexes :P
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I have noticed that. I am really not sure why but one of my best friends is a female furry.
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I have noticed that. I am really not sure why but one of my best friends is a female furry.
lol are you questioning the fact that she is a furry, just as you are a furry(assuming because your on the site)? or are you questioning the fact that she is a female furry?
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lol where i live there are two boy furries and 3 girl furries XD
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where i live there are alot more male furs then females
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I agree with Zeph.
I have noticed that female furries are more into the artistic part of the fandom. I'm going by observation here, but it seems that the majority of furry artists are female, while the males are more into other areas of the fandom, such as roleplaying and furry discussion in general.
Honestly, there isn't just one reason why something is. There are many other factors that come into play on why males outnumber females in furry population. It's difficult to point out the major cause. :P