>>6505
>But what I've seen a bit of, is everyfur has their own feelings about what "furry" means to them personally. So there are a thousand venn diagrams that, yes taken as one big diagram encompass a great deal of material, enough to say 'everything is furry' that is to say, a mix of human and more-(or less-) than human. But everything is not furry to a particular furre

which an inconvenience attached to that term since its birth and the practice of said term. Some try to exploit that lack of definition/up to subjective interpretation in order to include more people. However, other communities could boil down the concept and thus, reduce the amount of material that counts as furry, leaving it to the most explicit material that screams furry (basically the fursonas, the OCs coming from the artis and the NSFW fetishes....and even the latter has translated beyond them so it´s not even exclusive!) . Even if those animals count as furry for the broadest definition that you have presented...people of that particular franchise will consume content related to those characters before any other furry oc content unrelated to it. Therefore, while those people might consume the same style of content, it doesn´t mean that the agree with the culture or the explicit meaning of that word....because it´s subjective and relies on feelings, right?

For example, I mentioned Celaeno before. She could perfectly have the furry tag added to her pictures, right? Well, how about this? What if you leave her as anthro and parrot but not include the tag furry, reducing the amount of content that qualifies as furry? It´s up to interpretation and thus, one could use the word as a double standard for any occasion. Same applies to ponies. They could have the tag furry but instead, they only rely on the species alone. Unless something screams as explicitly furry, one can perfectly play with the ambiguous meaning of what counts or not as furry...because it relies on a personal viewpoint and not on a defined meaning. The word furry is hardly specific and could be perfectly exploited as a territory to play with, as if we were playing with the interpretation of the laws. Your word against mine and thus, we would fall into an endless circle.

You cannot apply this to the words brony or trekkie because you exactly know where the frontiers are located, therefore, such problems are not presented, same with the species of those animals/creatures. The word furry however, means everything and nothing at the same time. Except for a few things like the fursona, OCs drawn in their websites and certain fetishes (explicit meaning), I can´t tell what counts as furry playing with both explicit and implicit meanings because they create a territory made for war zones.