I made my definition more specific than yours because I don't think it's properly addressing everything. If you go to my original article on redefining furry you'll see why I put in each aspect of the definition. For example human-like characteristics is a very vague idea. Would a normal chimpanzee character in a show be a furry because it has some human-like characteristics? And are human-like characteristics ones that only humans have and no other animal? Or is having body hair a human-like characteristic?
Furry fandom and furry community are interchangeable in a sense. The furry fandom can be many things at the same time. I'd say it's a fandom and a community and perhaps a sub-culture. What I took issue with here was saying that it was one of those to the exclusion of being a fandom.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
I made my definition more specific than yours because I don't think it's properly addressing everything. If you go to my original article on redefining furry you'll see why I put in each aspect of the definition. For example human-like characteristics is a very vague idea. Would a normal chimpanzee character in a show be a furry because it has some human-like characteristics? And are human-like characteristics ones that only humans have and no other animal? Or is having body hair a human-like characteristic?
Furry fandom and furry community are interchangeable in a sense. The furry fandom can be many things at the same time. I'd say it's a fandom and a community and perhaps a sub-culture. What I took issue with here was saying that it was one of those to the exclusion of being a fandom.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~