What is your opinion on the term "Furfag?"

[Timmy Fox]

Depends on the context if I'm honest. If it's said in jest, then it doesn't phase me. If it's meant to be offensive then I'll obviously take offence to it.
And from my experience; I've found that the majority of furries are either bi or gay.

I've actually had a different experience - I've seen quite a few bi furs but honestly the amount of straight content I've seen on, for example, furaffinity does exceed the amount of gay content I've seen by a HUGE amount (that's both clean and adult). Over a period of about a year or two I've been checking the 20 most recently uploaded images and I see more straight or female (non-lesbian) art than gay such.

[Nrein]

The reason it seems like there are more bi/gay furries out there is because they make a point to let everyone know they're bi/gay >>


To be honest I know more furs that accept the term "Furfag" as just a silly way to proclaim that they're a lover of furs/furries/things of furry nature, than gay/bi furs that take offense to the term :x

[Count of Cutesy]

The reason it seems like there are more bi/gay furries out there is because they make a point to let everyone know they're bi/gay >>


To be honest I know more furs that accept the term "Furfag" as just a silly way to proclaim that they're a lover of furs/furries/things of furry nature, than gay/bi furs that take offense to the term :x

Seriously, the way the people at this one forum I go to act, they do NOT use the term playfully at all. They use it offensively, even though they SWEAR they don't and that no furry finds it offensive anymore. I've been a furry for about 7 years, and I STILL find it offensive.

[HyenaKing]

I take is as a general insult, TBH i don't really like it being a stereotype.

[ZaraRaEchidna]

I used to get called a furfag because I really liked this anthropomorphic character from drawn to life.
I said I loved him but I say I love a lot of things

I still hate the term furfag ...
I hate it so much 

[Count of Cutesy]

Did I mention the people at this "Furry" forum aren't even real furries. They spend most of their time spouting off about how awful furries are and how stereotypes are 100% true, and they basically treat anything that has anthro characters in it as rubbish, basically just because they star anthro characters, but will automatically like anything where anthros are BAD GUYS when the goodguys are humans.

I'd really love to say which forum I'm talking about.

[WingedZephyr]

Please don't make this into a thread for bashing people you're upset with.

Words only mean what we want them to mean. It's people who make them harmful. Avoid people who seek to harm you, be it physically or emotionally, and you'll be much happier because of it.

[Shiothefox]

Well, I do not get particularly mad, it's just really ignorant. I find its good to inform, but if they don't change their opinion, then, It's not worth fighting over.

[Count of Cutesy]

Well, I do not get particularly mad, it's just really ignorant. I find its good to inform, but if they don't change their opinion, then, It's not worth fighting over.

Well they anger me to the point where frankly I just plain don't care.

[vulpes inculta]

I dunno how I feel about the term...I don't call other people furfag, but I often refer to myself as "the school's token furfag" in a sort of self destruct humor kind of way.

Having said that, there have been 4 intstances where I have started a fight because someone referred to one of my friends as a furfag.

[Maine]

I don't really take any offense to the term.
On one hand, my friends and I use quite jestingly, as a kind of irony towards the views of outsiders.


On the other hand, if I were to every hear someone use it in a derogatory sense, if anything, it would pose to me their pure ignorance.
And that's just not intimidating at all.

[BakaFawkes]

Yeah, it's good and bad. Anoni has a good view; indifference. If it truly is a universal derogatory term to all furries, then it's bandwagon and contextual. If it really means homosexual furry fan, then it's incriminating and therefore should be ignored.
In my personal opinion, I just see it a another name. I'm straight and get called gay for being furry, so?

[Midnight Madness]

I couldn't care less what people call me. If that's what they think of me for a harmless lifestyle, whatever. I know it's harmless and I am confident in myself, I needn't allow their uneducated words bring me down, as that is what they want. It's too bad they can't see past their noses, but giving them attention is lets them know you are hurt by it.

Of course, I have had a friend **censor** around and call me and a few friends **censor**. Afterward, he proceeded to share some of his food with one of my fellow furries, as he was good friends with him. No reason to be offended, as that is not at all what he thinks of us. Just not his thing, all cool.

My point rests here. Getting all worked up over it is kind of pointless, as sometimes they only say it as a friendly jeer, and other times they do it to make you worked up. Same goes with any slur. Doesn't mean everybody should run around the streets shouting it at the top of their lungs, but we should be less apt to be offended by every bit of hate we get.

[Count of Cutesy]

Honestly, I don't think ANY real self respecting furry would enjoy being called such an offensive term, and I'm baffled to see that you guys don't find it offensive. Frankly, it's inhuman.

[Nrein]

Honestly, I'd say any self respecting furry should be able to get on without taking a *word* so harshly to the point of calling it inhuman. There are worse crimes a person can commit to another.

It's better to take the "insult" (if it's even used in such a manner by whoever is saying it) with a grain of salt and just laugh at them, than to act like the mere mention or thought of the word is a poison to everything furry and must be abolished.  Seriously, I've heard furries use the word "human" in a worse meaning than "furfag" by most other people.

I'm a furfag, therefore I am.