Do People Wear Fursuits To Anime Conventions

I suppose part of the outcome is the definition of furry. To me, a hirsuite is someone who dresses up like an brute for personal enjoyment/fetish reasons and not because it's a absurd costume or a graphic symbol they like. If someone self-identifies to me as a furry, I'm going to presume there'south a sexual aspect to it, because that's the impression I've gotten virtually the subculture and nearly the way the term is normally used. If you lot just like anthro fine art, you're not a hirsuite.
It's the divergence betwixt crossdressing and transvestitism. Crossdressers dress like the opposite sex activity because they savour information technology. Transvestites do information technology considering they get a sexual thrill from it. I don't care if someone enjoys transvestitism--that'due south absurd with me. Notwithstanding, I prefer not to be around people who are getting their rocks off in whatever fashion they go them. If I wanted to be around a bunch of people pursuing sexual thrills, there are parties I tin go to for that. It'southward non what I become to con for, though.

To me, "furry" carries the sexual fetish aspect with information technology. If someone is a hirsuite but it's non a fetish for them, maybe there needs to be a dissimilar word for the non-fetish furries. I don't intendance almost other people'southward fetishes, but I prefer not to be surrounded by them at con.* Savor (full general) your fetishes, past all means! Merely don't involve me in them/expose me to them without my prior knowledge or consent.

*Unless it's like, Fetish-Con or something. Which would probably be a scary, scary place.

I think Fizz has hit the smash on the head, as far as what Joe Middleclass thinks out at that place. It is unfortunate that that is the vision of "Hirsuite" that is prevalent I am with Acton when information technology comes to the actual definition

Commencement I tired quickly of sweeping generalizations of furry fandom. Information technology obvious
There is very footling knowledge what a furry is except for logical fallacies and hearsay of others. A furry is a fan of anthropomorphism, no more no less. To associate all fursuts equally sexual fetish is thing more than that blatant sweeping generalization. I been to two furry cons and Kumoricon is my first Anime con. I take to say I seen more tail and ears at Kumoricon than whatever furry con. Equally for costuming, I say the ratio of costumed attendees (Cosplay/ Fursuiting) is much higher at Kumoricon than any furcon. I did my ain count while bored; I say the ratio approached 3:ane (cosplayer : attendee) to a fury con where the ratio is never goes in a higher place 3:x (fursuiters and including accessories: attendee). Furthermore, I could add the number of attendees carrying plushies of one time sort or another. For the level of sexual fetish publicly displayed, I say zero at both or I would been running out of con hotel. As well being an Anime fan, a Furry I am Christian that has very little tolerance of immorality displayed. Finally seems racy cosplay, and Henti is not a problem only a fusuit that can worn at a children's party is major problem and speaks of ones ignorance and hypocrisy.

For a adequately acurate portrayal of Furry Fandom and the definition of "Yiff" look at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom

Like Acton I come up into the anime fandom from the furry fandom. My married woman is, for lack of a improve definition, a furry artist. In fact, she is a well known one. We even had a table at a couple of the ConiFur NW cons. Plug for my wifes site

http://spleger.abode.comcast.internet/~spleger/

I started getting interested in anime when my daughter did. I wasn't a real fan of Japanese blitheness until 1999 or so. I think that is when a saw a sub of Princess Mononoke playing at a fur con and got hooked. Call back I also saw Animalimpics that year, and maybe Stone & Rule. I exercise recollect I spent a lot of time watching shows similar ThunderCats and Samurai Pizza Cats. Anyways, Back in the early to mid 90'due south "Furry" meant quite a different affair. There was a strong participation of what you all call Yaoi, at these conventions. I don't think any obvious "Yiffing" At least non whatsoever worse than say going into a "Gay" bar. The majority of the artists were asked to portray the client as some animal. Often a avatar type character, that they used as an on-line personna, or grapheme in an RPG they were active in "Draw me as a big white tiger wearing concatenation mail service and conveying a claymore", "Draw me equally a fox with yellow curly hair and a big red ribbon", "I want a drawing of a imperial skunk, really sexy pose, with bluish eyes." You become the thought. My wife made a fair amount at these cons drawing this sort of affair. She still does commision piece of work from abode. Anyway, I didn't see anything terribly offensive about these cons. They did accept a X-Rated section. No young adults allowed, Non really whatsoever worse than Hentai films in my opinion. Only add bunny ears or cat ears to all the girls. and have them being tormented buy the same kind of demon monsters you see in some of the extreme hentai, with tentacles and stuff. I think the all-time known artist for this was Steve Martin. He is over PG-13 so no links here. The stuff that my wife didn't want to handle often got sent his way. His booth was just him and a figurer showing a slideshow of his stuff. About three or four notebooks of his work with prices of each piece on the plastic sleeve, and fifteen plastic bins of printed cloth that matched each epitome. The man himself looks very normal. I take never seen him in any grade of cosplay gear. Same is true for virtually of the people in the dealer areas. He could take just walked in off the street. I won't say that I didn't run into some individuals that wierded me out. I did see one guy who had painted stripes all over his body, so he looked like some sort of tigerman. Of course I have also seen Man-Faye and Man-Winry, every bit well as the Man-Chi (reppy), who posted before in this thread. I don't think I was whatever less weirded out past them. All I can say is that, you would take to pay me a lot of money to do the same thing in a public place.

I have stated that I have worked at a fur con and that my wife sells hirsuite art. Are we furry? Probably only as much as Walt Disney and the Bros Warner. I, like most of my generation, grew up watching "furry" cartoons, or as Wikipedia calls them "funny animals". I am certain that most of you out at that place reading this can say the same if you recall about information technology. Does Talespin, Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Animaniacs, Duck Tales, Tiny Toons, TMNT, band any bells? All of these shows are anthropomorphic and thus "Hirsuite", and so if you enjoyed watching them you lot are a furry by default. Back in the 80's that was what existence a hirsuite meant. The same as all the people who watch DBZ, Naruto, InuYasha, and Sailor Moon are anime fans. No real difference.

Hirsuite Lifestylers - This is the title given to your "Yiffer" croud that so many discover objectionable, including other furries past the mode. I would say that the percentage of lifestylers that show at a fur con is far below that of the per centum of Yaoi/Yuri individuals that show upwardly at an anime con. They are besides much less obvious nigh information technology.

Fursuiters - Fursuiters are the master cosplayers of a fur con. These are the people who go all out to recreate their on-line persona as a existent one. Many of these individuals have on-line comics or websites that they portray their character in. Often it is their own cosmos. They may spend 100's of dollars to create a fursuit or mascot to stand for themselves. Sometimes this is a form of advertising. Some of the all-time professional person fursuiters are the people who make mascot costumes for football game games or theme parks. Here are a couple that should be familiar to y'all:

Hmm.. A female Beaver named Bernice with her new husband Benny. Bernice often appeared in her wedding dress and Benny in a tux. No sexual innuendo implied here. This is of course at a football game in front of thousands of fans.

To be fair I will throw in this guy too:

Are yous wierded out by Mickey Mouse, Donald, Pluto, and Goofy when y'all are at Disneyland? How about the Beast, from beauty and the Beast, or Sully from Monsters Inc.?

As the male parent of the Silver the Hedgehog at the last K-con I can tell you that making one of these suits is no easy task. My daughter is by no means a hirsuite lifestyler either. She is a major Sonic the Hedgehog nut though. Very well known in those circles as Rally-the-cheetah. This is a chetah girl who lives in Sonics world, and who my daughter created for her Mary Jane style fansubs and doujinshi . Not sure if you lot can call them hirsuite or anime. Really I will permit Rem worry virtually that sort of thing. She is the ane who has to read them.

Hither are some interesting links. Here is an article most furries and furverts. Shows a off-white cross department:
http://www.montrealmirror.com/Athenaeum/2001/041201/comprehend.html

I also think information technology would be nice to put up a furry webcomic, Here is the award winning Kevin & Kell:
http://www.kevinandkell.com/

Thought I would too put in Vicki Fox, since my married woman did a lot of the art for this spider web comic:
http://www.vickifox.com/Comics/index.php

I thought I would close with the following epitome. What is information technology they say. A picture is worth a thousand words: