anthro aggro

Totally...That's the reason I'm really careful about revealing my furry side to co-workers and people in the field I'm trying to educate myself into (Psychology).

Friends I tell prettymuch up front--just to get it out in the open and out of the way.

I don't know where you live, but for me it's not a problem. I wear my ears pretty much everywhere except work. Although I will wear them there next week (Oct. 31).

Those in this area, South Louisiana, that I have talked to have found it interesting or weird, but none have reacted bad, yet. I even voted this past Friday wearing them.

When I described a furry convention to my father, his precise statement was "At least it isn't a VFW convention". (Veterans of Foreign Wars) My father fought in World War II and knew what went on at the VFW conventions. (Besides general rowdiness, they apparrently also had a habit of leaving automobiles on the elevated train tracks.) Of course since I was almost fifty years old at the time, I believe that he trusted my maturity.

I've been to several Anthrocons, and frankly I've seen far worse behavior at many science fiction conventions. Of course, it may be like Jimmy Stewart's response to reporters when he was told that wild parties with drugs were taking place just down the road: "I guess that's why I was never invited to the parties".

Several years ago, there was an episode of the television show The Streets of San Francisco where Arnold Schwarzeneiger was the guest star and played a body-builder who was also a sexual predator. I would really love to get a copy of that tape to show to people who mention the CSI episode. When I heard that the CSI episode had people making sex while in fur suits, I broke out laughing. It's hard enough walking in the suits without collapsing from the heat.

I go to Anthrocon because it's a friendly group of people and relaxing to go to. I personally find the people at Anthrocon saner and more normal than the people I deal with at work.

I would be seriously considering the furry party in Ohio over the weekend but my wife is returning from St. Louis and would be rather upset if I wasn't there to pick her up at the airport.

When I explained to my friends last month that I was a furry, they took it pretty well(surprisingly). Then when I told my brother and his wife(who are both christians) that I was a furry and explained to them what a furry was, they took it really good. Most people I told at my workplace had no idea what a furry is so I had to keep repeating myself. Furries are not big where I am up here in Rochester, NY. Everyone I told seems to take it very good and back me up for being a furry. I guess I am one of the lucky ones. Raider.

Meh, when I tell people I think it's fun to dress up in a costume they just go "whatev." When I talk about other people doing it they say it's creepy. I don't know why. Maybe they think people in the costumes are old men trying to get little girls to touch them :B

To answer your question though, most people are pretty cool about it. I've never had to come out like "guys I'm a furry."

I've always wondered why some people get really defensive when people have misconceptions about the fandom. Being part of several under-represented groups in the United States, I've dealt with a lot of stereotypes and prejudices. After a while, you kind of turn into a duck. Water just rolls right off your back, you know?

Now that I think of it, I had one guy give me the middle finger when I was volunteering with a non profit. And a lot of people wouldn't hug me unless they knew I was a girl XD

My biggest fear is someone egging my costume. "HEY! DRY CLEAN ONLY! "

i only tell people i like. i don't just announce it to the world. whats the point? if they find out great for them. mostly my friends think its cool, and when i tell them about the fursuit i'm making, they want me to make them one too. but uh.... yeah. i dunno about all that yet. still trying to figure out my own.
just wanted to say i get no flack.

Meh people just natrully hate people who are different from them
No one knows about my furry side.....like no one cept here on the internet

I sometimes like to go to say, the mall or something wearing my tail and collar. I have aggression problems and I'd do it to try to get someone to fight me about it, but no one ever has. I've come to realize it's cause I'm huge and most people are afraid to fight me. But this just goes to show you that most people are cowards anyway, so it really shouldn't bother you if they heckle you. You show more courage by being open about your furryness than those that persecute. Everyone I know knows that I'm a fur, friends, family, and even some strangers. The only people that shall never know is the army... I'm just not comfortable explaining that one to my Captain. LOL.

It reminds me of one of my favorite sayings: Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy (it's probably already been quoted here).

I’ve only recently planned to come to this convention because costuming is a favorite hobby of mine and I enjoy wearing costumes in general (at Halloween, midnight movie openings, etc.). I went to Borders for their Harry Potter book party dressed in my seven foot tall Dementor costume and people loved it. I guess I usually just wear them when the occasion might call for it, so I’ve never gotten any flak for it.

It just doesn’t seem like something that warrants judgment, but maybe it just takes one person to see something as a deviation from the norm – just like Halloween itself, or D&D, or anything else those “other” people are into. Sad, really. If people took half that critical energy and turned it on themselves, there’d be a lot less dysfunction in the world.