Are you (am I? are we?) Furry?

I did not know until Nov 2025 that cat girl =/= furry so hopefully this also explains something for you

Demographics taken from Furscience/IARP

What are the men doing here? (no judgement)

- The nature of online spaces skewing male?
- The way men are ‘allowed’ to dress is much more narrow/constricted
- They way men are ‘allowed’ to act thus follows suit (ha ha)
(The male loneliness epidemic as they say)
(But also, masculinity in general easily feeling threatened, imo)
- Safe, ‘transformative space’ for experimentation
- ‘Costuming worlds form a utopia’
- Get in touch with an “ideal” community > more humane, compassionate, can talk about their traumas
- The mask sets you free!!!
- Can negotiate identity on a (material) layer
on top of the physical body

TLDR: creative, fun, expressive, can be
whatever you want+don’t have to be what
society tells you to be, meet people who are actually nice,
(free to howl at the moon should you so wish to)

Vernacular Creativity

source: hournoon

source: ma_ko_to/makotochi

source: cynophagous

source: toshoneko

- Transmitting membership of the fandom through symbology
- kind of need to be a part of the furry fandom to know what art/style counts as furry art/media? (and everyone inside would still be debating about it)
- understanding context, slang/lingo, cross-references, unspoken rules

Choosing your animal

source, clockwise : freckledcatcreations, komickraze studios,
chaoticreations, kigurumi kagetsu

- Practicality (esp. for fursuiters)
- Aesthetics and originality
- Considering your own fluid personality traits
(it’s due to change, just like your fursona)
-(ape/monkey hating) (kidding, or maybe not)

No Delusion, just Deleuze-ian

(and Guattari but I don’t have a joke for that)

source: acid horizon @ youtube

- Highly identified furries co opt the animal into their human identity
- Stigmatised because of performing Body without Organs (BwO)?
- D&G did in fact link BwO and becoming-animal with a lot of “mental illness” (or that society would view it as such)
- J. R. Austin: ‘For highly identified Furries, transformation is at the forefront, in that these real animals can transform their human selves’

Furry Culture in Taiwan

source: wikifur

Satinsky, E & Green, N. D. (2016). ‘Negotiating identities in the furry fandom
through costuming’. Critical Studies in Men's Fashion.

Austin, J. R.. (2021). Fan identities in the furry fandom. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

source: furscience

source: Zilven (十二嵐) @ X

my family members and all of my school friends are just regular people. i saw them graduate, get a job, get married, have kids, and just live like a normal human. and i don't want a life like that. i had a few years living like that. i went to work in a company, and my work was drawing as well but i [felt] like a ghost when i got off work...

Source: The Spectacular Rise of Infurnity + More About Taiwanese Furs Feat. J.C. [FABP E19] @ Youtube

but being a furry sometimes make me look at things from a different point of view. i notice that what i see and what i think is different from these people...i actually have the ability to live my life without following the regular path, and i really appreciate it...this is a life i want to live. my life was recreated from the furry fandom and that keeps giving me the motivation to do things in the fandom.

CONTENT WARNING: BODY MODIFICATION (that some may consider extreme?)

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Might be a little NSFW so I'm sparing your eyes

Subgroups in the fandom (globally)
-ravers/edm
-militia/guns
-fashion
-planes/trains
-gamers
-nazis even...
so on and so forth

***Extremely unrelated but very interesting
ALSO in essence: monkey tail + smaller brain & frame, ape no tail + bigger brain & frame + have an appendix (like us)