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Damn I'm getting old, who/what are bronies? My kids are up and I'm afraid to google it.

/edit you know what I'm sure I just don't want to know.

sirlynchmob wrote:Damn I'm getting old, who/what are bronies? My kids are up and I'm afraid to google it.

/edit you know what I'm sure I just don't want to know.

Male adult fans of my little pony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HM9tyNkUAg

This is all I have to say about this subject.

As long as there is no hardcore furry action happening on this fine family friendly website I could not care less. You like to dress in fur? That's cool, I like to spend way to much money to purchase unpainted plastic and metal figures and then spend way too much time painting them. Sometimes I go to a stinky FLGS to play games with the other nerds. We all have our 'weird' hobbies.

Let's all be our own best friends and just get along

Corpsesarefun wrote:

sirlynchmob wrote:Damn I'm getting old, who/what are bronies? My kids are up and I'm afraid to google it.

/edit you know what I'm sure I just don't want to know.

Male adult fans of my little pony.

Anymore not just male and not just adult.

AduroT wrote:

Corpsesarefun wrote:

sirlynchmob wrote:Damn I'm getting old, who/what are bronies? My kids are up and I'm afraid to google it.

/edit you know what I'm sure I just don't want to know.

Male adult fans of my little pony.

Anymore not just male and not just adult.

So any fan of my little pony is a brony now?

Corpsesarefun wrote:

AduroT wrote:

Corpsesarefun wrote:

sirlynchmob wrote:Damn I'm getting old, who/what are bronies? My kids are up and I'm afraid to google it.

/edit you know what I'm sure I just don't want to know.

Male adult fans of my little pony.

Anymore not just male and not just adult.

So any fan of my little pony is a brony now?

I'm a fan of the show but I don't consider myself a brony...

Furries are just people attempting to be one with the awesomeness that is the Great Wienerdog.

All hail he Great Wienie and its emiissary the Terrible TBone! I hear he really likes donuts.

I don't think it really has a definition. It kind of changes depending on the person using it.

Frazzled wrote:Furries are just people attempting to be one with the awesomeness that is the Great Wienerdog.

All hail he Great Wienie and its emiissary the Terrible TBone! I hear he really likes donuts.

It's hard to believe that something so adorable could be the destroyer of worlds.

Coolyo294 wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Furries are just people attempting to be one with the awesomeness that is the Great Wienerdog.

All hail he Great Wienie and its emiissary the Terrible TBone! I hear he really likes donuts.

It's hard to believe that something so adorable could be the destroyer of worlds.

And thats how he likes it!

Corpsesarefun wrote:So any fan of my little pony is a brony now?

Nah, just the male adult ones.

That's what I said the first time but apparently that's wrong.

Hell, I watch MiP and have NEVER considered myself a Brony.....

Corpsesarefun wrote:That's what I said the first time but apparently that's wrong.

Only "those guys" on the internet are bronies.

Frazzled wrote:Furries are just people attempting to be one with the awesomeness that is the Great Wienerdog.

All hail he Great Wienie and its emiissary the Terrible TBone! I hear he really likes donuts.

Y'know frazzled i knw a Doctor in Brazil that can turn you into a weinerdog
Doesn't Cost much either.

Slarg232 wrote:*Ungags the virgin in the back, lets her run away*

Woah now, lets not get crazy.

Why would you ever do that?

Slarg232 wrote:Hell, I watch MiP and have NEVER considered myself a Brony.....

MIP? Is that 'Men In Ponies'? Seems kind of appropriate...

Back on topic, my brother-in-law has recently expressed some furry tendencies and it hasn't altered my opinion of him one iota, he's entitled to his kinks and fetishes, as i am to mine.

Bronies are male fans. Female fans are called Pegasisters. Which is hilarious.

I have no problem with furries. I like manga girls with kitty ears and tails, I think they're cute, although I draw the line at furry pron. Same with MLP. Heck, I love Transformers, but that doesn't make me a paedophile.

Why can't everyone just get along?

There seems to be a lot of assumption going on that furry=sexual furry, and that brony=sexual furry. Some people are just into media that contains anthropomorphic animals, no sexual tension required. I mean, I love wargaming, and RP, but I don't have sexual associations with it. I don't like Elves because I want to bang them.

Basically, there is a tendency to write off a fandom as being entirely motivated by sexual impulses when you don't like, or don't understand that fandom. Those who were mocked for their hobbies in schools no doubt had the word virgin thrown at them - the same thing is happening when people call out fans of furry things as sexual deviants.

Now, personally, I detest anthropomorphic animals. I don't know why, but they wind me up. I don't begrudge others enjoying them, though, and I do know this - most of them don't want to stick it inside a rabbit. This is an assumption made by those who are all too ready to hate them.

Because history has shown if there's one thing humans just can't do that well, it's "get along with each other".

Sure, small groups might band together for mutual protection, but sure as hell, some other group who have done a similar thing are going to declare you "NOT the people" and get medieval on your kiesters.

Such is the way of things.

This has all happened before.


History doesn't repeat - it just rhymes a lot.

CT GAMER wrote:Bottom line: If you don't want attention then don't attract it, and if you insist then accept that it all wont be positive and deal with it.

Well that's worth living by. If people are different, don't preach tolerance, tell them to keep their heads down. If by "it all won't be positive" you mean that people need to accept that entirely unprovoked they'll be called perverts and paedophiles I don't agree.

Kanluwen wrote:

Redbeard wrote:My issue with furries and bronies and the like is that I don't think this is the place for it.

Male, female, gay, straight, transsexual, etc: I could care less. But whatever it is, don't throw it in my face all the time. I don't post here about what I did with my wife last night. It would be nice to be afforded the same respect.

This is a wargaming forum primarily, and a gaming forum secondarily. It's not sex chat, it's not fetishland, it's not BME. There are other forums for that stuff. I'm sure there are bronie fan sites that would be more than happy to see an influx of members.

And this is why I like Redbeard's posts.

It's fine and dandy to be proud of who you are; but this is a family friendly website intended primarily for wargaming.

Off-topic is where you would be able to discuss these kinds of things but at the same time...
What in the world is the point of bringing it up here on Dakka?

Why do people assume that things relating to furries means sex-chat? For example, in the thread I was reading, it was merely about MLP marines and people making marines with parts of animals. There was no sexual content. Yet a group of people went into the thread shouting about sexual deviance and how furries are paedophiles. Even when the topic wasn't about furry-fetish, there were people insisting that it still was and were determined to derail it by insisting this is what the topic was *really* about. Because making models that use parts of animals, and normal figures like marines, has to be an expression of the fetishism, it has to be sexual (why??) and this is very bad. There wasn't an explanation for why it was so bad beyond it being perverted, and all the accusations of wanting to rub people's faces in it were nonsense, the sexual aspect of furryism didn't even come into it until some haters started demanding that it was all the same thing and crying about how perverted and dangerous it all was. So who is at fault here, the people who hate things related to furryism, or the furries, if there were even any on the thread?

So yeah, when someone insists on giving a graphic account of their sex life in almost any circumstances, then sure, they should be pulled up on it because this isn't really the place. But that isn't what was happening in this case or others. Apparently someone even suggesting something that could be related back to furryism warrants a huge attack. This is the equivalent of someone mentioning they've made their RPG character gay and a heap of people going crazy about how they are having graphic gay sex pushed in their faces. I mean whaaa..?

This is a game in which GW make figures of young women in fetish gear being herded around by an armoured woman with a whip. PG-13 indeed. But someone does a head swap on a marine, and suddenly it's all wrong because that means the person doing it must be a furry and they are disgusting. Hmmm...

Anyone comparing grown ups dressing as cat people to have sex to paedophilia should be beaten about the face with half a brick in a sock. Using that comparison for online hyperbole is a callous attention grab.

That said, dressing as an anthropomorphic cat/fox/rabbit to have sex is fairly outside the norm and people reacting with aversion or bemusement to it should be expected, especially in a forum where the average user would be an early 20s white male.

Howard try to have some perspective.

These people are choosing to go to a public forum and present themselves a certain way. That is a conscious choice, noone is outing them.

Everything we do as people is judged and reacted to by others. We aren't talking about skin color, race, or sexual orientation here, we are talking about people who like cartoons and choose to aggressively express itI.
I don't think anyone is calling for gas chambers and lynchings, so maybe ease up with the "persecution/victim" thing...

This topic is Akin to those who use fashion or unusual hairstyles or similar to attract attention to themselves. If I grow a two foot high purple Mohawk and then go public places it WILL attract attention and unless I am a moron I can undestand the role I play in this and the fact that I know exactly how a certain percentage will react before I even do it.

Pony-speak and mlp avatars and so forth act the same way. You are choosing to draw attention to yourself. Take some personal responsibility and don't play the victim card...

Furries have existed in 40k & warhammer for ages now. I don't see the problem.

Exalt for the sexy Bestigor without pants.

to answer the op, its just misguided, over vocal fools on the internet who have heard from a source that X is bad and you should hate it. many of the people who hate MLP have never even watched it for Christ’s sake same goes for furries. I have no problem with them and I’m even friends with two of them and despite thinking anthropomorphic animals are cool they are the same as you or me, just like bronies. I know three personally (I myself am one) and other than the fact we watch a show about ponies there is nothing different about us from the rest of our social group.

in short, haters gonna hate so its best to let them have their little rant and ignore them as there is a good chance they have no real idea of what their talking about.

I'm fine with furries. I have no issues with them.

It's the furries I have trouble with. You know the type, wearing ears/tail all the time, always talking about furry things, constantly nagging you to check out furry stuff, and tell you about all his creepy-ass furry porn.

This is also my stance on Bronies. Everything in moderation, children.

CT GAMER wrote:Howard try to have some perspective.

These people are choosing to go to a public forum and present themselves a certain way. That is a conscious choice, noone is outing them.

Everything we do as people is judged and reacted to by others. We aren't talking about skin color, race, or sexual orientation here, we are talking about people who like cartoons and choose to aggressively express itI.
I don't think anyone is calling for gas chambers and lynchings, so maybe ease up with the "persecution/victim" thing...

This topic is Akin to those who use fashion or unusual hairstyles or similar to attract attention to themselves. If I grow a two foot high purple Mohawk and then go public places it WILL attract attention and unless I am a moron I can undestand the role I play in this and the fact that I know exactly how a certain percentage will react before I even do it.

Pony-speak and mlp avatars and so forth act the same way. You are choosing to draw attention to yourself. Take some personal responsibility and don't play the victim card...

Perspective....
If anyone likes tanks, crams in as many tanks as possible in the army, paint them to excellent standard, and shows them off in a thread, i doubt anyone here would lift an eybrow.
Look at all the picture-filled threads with more or less exellently pained and/or converted miniatures.
Do you really claim that those are not there to attract attention to themselves, or rather, to their work?
Do you really mean that simple headswaps, anthro-style, is more "in your face" than that?

And as for WH40K and Fantasy, especially 40K has, even since the original Rogue Trader (40K 1'st Edition) thrived on erotical innuendos.
I mean, Slaanesh? Callidus Assassin? Death Cult Assassins?
.... Again, perspective.

As for why this forum seem to, or do have, more Furry- and Brony-antagonism than other places, i'd say:
"Look at worlds of Warhammer themseves".
What probably started as a joyful, competetive addition of phrases from the worlds, like "Kill the Mutant" has by now gone out of hands, and attracted people who might even be close to thinking that way.
And newcommers has adopted it, without understanding that it was all for fun, originally.
And here comes someone, with Space Marines, not Traitor-/Chaos Marines, but Space Marines, The Emperor's finest, and have made them into mutants.
Some go at it in the usual, originally, and perhaps still, fun way .... but they are also joined by the Furry- and Brony- haters, too ....

This is what i assume.

Howard A Treesong wrote:
Why do people assume that things relating to furries means sex-chat?

Because some of it does, and I've got absolutely no interest in learning about the inner workings of furry culture, certainly not enough to tell the difference between the furries that just want to wear ears&tails and the furries who want to wear ears&tails while having sex. If I wanted to do that, I'd be on a furry discussion board, not a wargaming discussion board.

Get it?

This is a game in which GW make figures of young women in fetish gear being herded around by an armoured woman with a whip. PG-13 indeed. But someone does a head swap on a marine, and suddenly it's all wrong because that means the person doing it must be a furry and they are disgusting. Hmmm...

No. This is a game in which GW makes figures of young women in fetish gear being herded around by an armoured woman with a whip, as part of a miniature wargame, with a story that works within that setting. And when someone does a head-swap on a marine to make him a pony, it's not wrong because the person is a furry, it's wrong because it no longer fits in the established universe for the game. Again, I'd imagine that there are forums dedicated to these people, why do they feel the need to inundate a wargaming forum with it?

Tiina Brown wrote:
Perspective....
If anyone likes tanks, crams in as many tanks as possible in the army, paint them to excellent standard, and shows them off in a thread, i doubt anyone here would lift an eybrow.

Of course not, this is a wargaming forum, it's intended to be about miniatures and the games we play with them.

Do you really mean that simple headswaps, anthro-style, is more "in your face" than that?

Yes, because it doesn't belong here. It isn't part of our game universe.