Why do people take furry cartoon animals so seriously now???

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I don't want to live in a world where I can't draw cartoon animals that act human or have human-like body features because people will call them "furries" or say it's "beastiality" or some crap! Drawing anthromorphic animals is something I've done all my life, I was heavily influenced by classic cartoon characters from Disney and Looney Tunes when I was a toddler. For years that has been my reason for living and now all of a sudden it's considered beastial and unnatural for me to draw a female tiger wearing jeans and a t-shirt that shows her midsection or a male cat with chiseled pectorals showing through a karate suit?!? For years I assumed it was just harmless fun, but all the Fruedian perverts have to ruin everything by and claim people will want to have sex with CARTOONS them even though they're just a bunch of drawings and they are NOT REAL, therefore it's impossible!! !
I am in no way sexually attracted to animals. But humans and other creatures are more alike than most people want to admit, and combining the two is just something people do because of something called imagination. But now people see sexual garbage in everything.It's like, I think a real live animal is beautiful or attractive oh then gosh I must want to do it with that animal. THAT'S STUPID!! ! Thanks for ruining my life, perverts!

You shouldn't let it bother you. Not everyone even knows the term "furries."
In any case, since you appear highly upset about this, people will probably call your art furries, because they know they will get a reaction out of you.
And, in modern times, there's nothing against anthropomorphic animals in art.
(Sonic the Hedgehog & friends, Puss In Boots, etc. There's a lot I don't know, because I'm behind the times.)
Clearly there's plenty of modern social media that has anthropomorphic animals in it.
(And is not considered anything sexual.)
The fact that people want to sexualize any random thing is nothing new. (See "rule 34.")

^ I agree. Try not to let it bug you. I personally don't like the term "furry" (mainly because of its bad reputation) but that's not going to stop me from drawing and liking anthropomorphic animals.

As a furry, I can tell you that the idea that furries are sick minded pedophiles with a beastility fetish is just a myth and people like that make up a very small porportion of the coummity. Most furries are actually against "yiffing" and anything sexual.

^ That, as well as I know many Furries are actually WB/Disney fans, maybe you have more in common than you think.

If I ever start drawing anthropomorphic animals, I wouldn't mind the label.

You should read my post "feeling as if born the wrong species" by the way:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt184921.html Because that's how I got into the furry fandom. I never wanted to be a human being and always felt as if I was born in the wrong body.

I write some anthropomorphic characters into some of my stories.I get tired of writing just humans; there are only so many things you can do with human characters. Anthropomorphic characters are just more fun to write, anyhow. It's like a clean slate where you can fill in the blanks with your own creativity and intuition. How would a cat-person act under normal circumstances, based on evolution, for example? There are bound to be peculiarities. Speculative writing is always more fun than the vanilla variant. The more speculative, the better.

It's ridiculous when people try to turn anthropomorphism into some sort of social deviancy; there's nothing wrong with it.

It´s just the old freudian cigar dilemma - does the urge to put something phallos-shaped in your mouth make you a (latent) homo? Should you dignify such a question with an answer?
I like to draw robots, lots and lots of robots, but it doesn´t make me a robosexual.

Lol, a Robosexual. I'll have to remember that if anyone gives me trouble for my obsession of Armored Core.

I stole it from Futurama. It´s a great word.
Armored core is easy to get obsessed with, and easy to get frustrated by - if you´re as lousy a gamer as I am. There´s just something with the PS controls that doesn´t work for me.

What about "skrunching"?

One of the earliest episodes of CSI was about murder among furries.

Specifically among furries at a big furry convention in Vegas.

Not sayin' that furries are more homocidal than the british aristocrats who populate agatha christie novels or any other subgroup of humanity- lol!- but i didnt know that they really existed.

I assumed the whole furry subculture ( including its lingo) was made up for the TV show, but ive been learning from WP that you guys really exist!

Do you all really have big conventions (like trekkies)?

Is 'skrunching' a real term used in the furry subculture?

Just curious about that, and am curious if you know about that CSI episode.

According to a character on that episode of the show its means the practice by conventioners in animal costume gathering together into the middle of the room for contact ( like a group embrace its not necessarily sexual).

The first time I heard the word furry I thought it was just a bizarre joke, and I thought the excessive use of the word indicated it was another internet fad that would die out after a few months. Seems I was mistaken on both accounts.
BTW this is the first time I´ve encountered the word "skrunching".

I wonder when CSI will pick up the brony thing. Maybe next season.
"The murder was committed by... THE PONY!"