Furry Fandom (FF): a leash of self-image and social discrimination against minority groups.
As society grows, opinions will differ as our society is integrated based on different perspectives, mindsets, and cultures which differs from one another (Anthony., 1997, P.2). However, sometimes people would extremize their exhibition of their repulsive behavior, or "social control" against minority groups (Lamm & Schaefer, 1998. P.185-186), which the Furry Fandom is an example. In Foreign countries, the Furry Fandom is stigmatized as a group which most favored activity is engaging in sexual intercourse, having erotic fantasies on anthropomorphized animals, and people who express their love towards their "Fursonas" all in body-sized animal "fursuits" (Jeansonne., 2012, P. 64). Due to these negative stereotypes, the Furry Fandom is discriminated, prejudiced, and disdained by the general public. However, the Furry Fandom has an increasing participant amount over the years especially in the US and other Western countries when more people have claimed that being a furry as their self-acceptance and their self-realization (IARP, 2016). But as the negativity of the society against them is rather strong, they tend to
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& Lamm., 1998, P. 191). Due to furries have different values from the public, usually worsened by media which emphasize repulsive and unorthodox behaviors, the public has negative stereotypes and usually portraits furries as mischief-makers and deviants (Jakob, 2015, P.24), eventually evolving into criticism and finally, discrimination for the public 's pressure to create a "deviance-free"