Was Disney a furry?

[Dinner]

The guy had such a thing for humanized animals that he spent his life drawing them and creating new ones. That sounds like suspiciously furry loving activity to me.

[Jon Miller]

I think that if he wasn't a furry, that he is at least largely responsible for the large numbers that exist right now.

JM

[Spiffor]

In the furry community, its pretty accepted that he's a founding father of furriness. I seem to recall reading somewhere that he did coin the word "yiff".

[Lorizael]

Can Nazis be furries?

[Spiffor]

The first ecologist policies were occuring under the nazis. Coincidence? I think not!

[Dis]

okay I had to look that up. It seems there's a word for everything now days (although I guess that's the purpose of having a language )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry

[DRoseDARs]

You only NOW learned of furries? Did you just join the forum? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH DISSIDENT!?!?

[Provost Harrison]

DISSIDENT AGGRESSOR?!?!

[Elok]

He's cited as a father figure by the furries (hooray for alliteration), but that doesn't mean much. Those loonballs will invoke the memory of pretty much anyone with the slightest relationship to anthropomorphic animals in order to seem less pitiful than they are.

Anyway, I would say Walt wasn't a furry on the grounds that:
-He was successful
-He had friends who were not obsessed with talking animals
-He was capable of creating characters who were not talking animals, and of being genuinely creative
-He did not, afaik, think he was a talking animal deep down inside
-Et cetera

Oh, and don't forget The Jungle Book. No furry would create a sympathetic main character who lives with animals as a child but eventually grows up and lives with other human beings like a normal person.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Dis
okay I had to look that up. It seems there's a word for everything now days (although I guess that's the purpose of having a language )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry

I didn't know what a furry was either, but you just pre-empted my posting "WTF is a furry?"

Also, that was a perfect opportunity for ignore list link treachery that you passed up there

[Provost Harrison]

He was just a prize bastard, not a fairy

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Elok
Oh, and don't forget The Jungle Book. No furry would create a sympathetic main character who lives with animals as a child but eventually grows up and lives with other human beings like a normal person.

Could be that he was tortured by his inner furriness and his desire to be normal. The Jungle Book is a manifestation of that conflict. Of course, society wins out in the end; the dude lives a normal life and Walt is monumentally successful. Puts a whole new light on the story. It's tragic, really.

[Elok]

Lori, you are what your actions make of you. You can feel the desire to do something and not succumb, as Disney did in your theory, and as a result not warrant the label. For example, we've all at one point or another seen a hot chick in a short skirt walking in such a manner as to make her rear move about a half a yard in either direction with every step. We felt the urge to jump her bones or at least slap that booty, but we resisted it (at least, I did; jury's still out on Dis), and thus do not deserve to be called "sex offenders." If Disney felt the evil lure but ultimately did not embrace the Dark Side, he is not a Furry.

Now, this is assuming that we are not arguing for Furriness as an innate predisposition like homosexuality (even celibate gays are still gays, and the ones who try to get chicks are gay AND in denial). However, my understanding of Furries is of general social dysfunction manifesting itself in peculiar symptoms due to various external and--at the moment--unknown factors. Perhaps an excessive exposure to stuffed animals as a child?

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Elok
Lori, you are what your actions make of you. You can feel the desire to do something and not succumb, as Disney did in your theory, and as a result not warrant the label. ... If Disney felt the evil lure but ultimately did not embrace the Dark Side, he is not a Furry.

I'm not so sure about that. It could have been that his creative expression of his furriness was just an out of control outlet. He could be a furry without publicly demonstrating his furriness.

For example, we all know that our new junior senator from Virginia, Jim Webb, is actually a misogynistic sex freak because he wrote many novels about sexy women and boys with cultural practices and such.

Now, are Webb's novels merely an outlet to relieve him of his urges before he eyes his first congressional page, or are they just the only public display of a truly despicable human being?

And to the point: How do we know that Disney didn't run around in a bunny suit while stroking his floppy ears, and the cartoons were simply all we ever saw?

[Jon Miller]

Yeah, being gay is different than being Furry, as there is evidence that homosexuality is a common evolutionary response to pollution (not sure about the last bit).

JM