Should I do a presentation about an introduction to the furry fandom for college?

Stat

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Oct 25, 2017
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What are some of the other topics OP? Like for sex positivity, is it all like "being comfortable naked" etc?

Cause if the topics are like "How to spice up your bedroom by holding hands" and then you're like Furries...



If you want everyone to think you're a weirdo, go ahead
Yeah that would be how I would feel too.


Hmm yeah, I wouldn't do it. But you do you.
Yeah, like I just can't imagine a scenario where this isn't full on cringe tbh.

And honestly, if this is the only LGBTQ+ topic, oh boy.
 

Siggy-P

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Here’s a bit of context for what Sex Week has.
What are you actually planning on talking about in this presentation? Like do you have stats or anything? How would the presentation play out?

Also I don't wanna assume anything (and I certainly ain't judging) but going off your avatar I gotta ask if this is an actual fetish you personally have? Because if so I would maybe reconsider going hard in on sharing that with your class.
 

NervousXtian

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No, don't. It won't come across how you want it to be taken. People into kinks can find their communities with ease these days, and kink shaming isn't going away any time soon.
 

maruchan

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Does anyone remember that mtv special that introduced the world to furries. Sex2k or something late 90s early 2000’s
 

Anustart

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Why not do it over lgbqt+ instead? Bound to have a higher impact than zoning in on furry sex of all things.

But if you're deadset on furry, be prepared to face a world that isn't era where you don't get banned for being positive about everything.
Here’s a bit of context for what Sex Week has.
If you go through with it I demand a video.
 

Bard

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I think the people who said that doing a talk like this during sex week will just automatically connect the community to it being some kind of kink or fetish, which for some people it might be but IIRC it isn't for many others, are right.

This is a tricky subject matter, there's nothing wrong with discussing it of course, but you want to portray it correctly. Are there any other moments during the school year where your university allows students to make these sorts of presentations regarding different communities like this? It might be better to do it when it wouldn't be so heavily associated with sex which unfortunately the furry community still gets a lot of flak and side eye for due to various reasons and misconceptions.
 

Jimnymebob

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If you do this, you need to be one of those people who can pull off a presentation.

Like, you need to own it: don't be afraid to go very tongue in cheek, and point out and find the humour in just how quirky the fandom is. Just don't sheepishly stand in front of people and mumble a presentation that you have in notes on scrap pieces of paper in your hand.
 

Geoff

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Hard no. Unless you are extremely confident and dgaf what people think of you (genuinely - lots of people say they don't care but when the chips are down, they find out that actually they care a lot) this will end in tears.
 

Rendering...

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Seems like a weird and awkward thing to talk about. Personally I wouldn't want to invite any dialogue on a topic that's adjacent to the internet's dark depths of eccentric sexuality.
 
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Do it.

But do your fucking research.

Talk to people who have been doing the research on this for years. I'd recommend contacting @dogpatchpress on twitter, they're a good collator of furry subculture history, and can send you to the right people to talk to for your research, and may even be able to provide content themselves for your talk.
 

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No, that's a tiny, minuscule minority of the LGBT community, you're not actually going to represent LGBT people at all with going straight to furry fandom.
 

zeitgeist

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You shouldn't do this.

But when you do, you could do the LGBTQ+ community a solid by not invoking their exclusion as motivation for your furry presentation.
 

Thequietone

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Just be careful how you do it. I remember my college class trying to explain pansexual and it made us seem like monsters because of how badly they presented us.
 

Abstrusity

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No, that's a tiny, minuscule minority of the LGBT community, you're not actually going to represent LGBT people at all with going straight to furry fandom.
It would be more accurate to say that LGBT people are more highly represented in basically all kink/lifestyle/identity places.

These sorts of places have been traditionally safer spaces. In furry spaces specifically, you can be anything you want to be, least of which being able to choose your gender and sex outright. It's less that nobody cares, but that they are actively, wholly supportive and accepting.

The same is generally true of even most roleplay centric channels and communities; the ability to be and play as who you are, or failing that, as a character you make that you identify personally with, borders on the therapeutic.

When that much is true, the fear of coming out matters less. You are already among people that have, or will be supportive and caring, especially when you fear that the world outside of these communities will not. They are integral to many, many peoples' ability to come out proudly, know they are accepted, and become who they know they are.

Where I am not specifically a furry, I have existed in majority furry communities (that veer into fetish territory because who do you think I am, a puritan?), basically my entire adult life, because it felt more comfortable there and in fetish communities than anywhere else as a transwoman.
(Without naming names, of the 53 people in the current stomping ground, the majority is LGBT, of which more than 10 are trans.)

Hope that helps. I don't doubt for a moment that you'll get plenty of comments like that, OP.
 

GayAnimeDad

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It depends how much you want:
A) the rest of the class to laugh about you for the rest of the year
B) to possibly have to defend being attracted to animal features and genitalia as not being related to beastiality