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| Topic | Why do furries refer to anatomically correct animal characters as 'ferals'? |
| Tyranthraxus 03/21/18 9:48:28 PM #3: | FortuneCookie posted... Calling them feral makes it sound like they're just mindless animals. The whole point of this level of fantasy is that they're still sapient. I feel like they really could've had a better name. Feral makes it sound like bestiality. The non-sapient kind. that's just the word for it. If you look up "furry" in colloquial use, you'll find predominantly pictures of cats and dogs, maybe fur coats. Words can have different meanings when used in different contexts. Feral is essentially just a word to differentiate that the character's skeletal structure is that of a regular animal and not that of a human. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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