Some furries just take this thing too seriously. ...Okay, MOST do. I'm a 'furry' but I define furry as anyone that participates in the furry fandom. (Which, BTW, is a fucking AWESOME thing to say when some fucktard goes 'Ppl kant even define what a 'furry' is!'. Sure, if it particpates in the fandom, it's a furry. If it doesn't, it's not. Oooo, so hard.
Ahem, anyway, the pride thing boggles me. Maybe it's cause I don't see the furry fandom as some magical circle of murrific friends. It's a source of interesting art and comics, I'm a fan of that stuff, I think it's interesting. ...I also think that only like 5% of it is interesting and this rest is crap, but that's my problem. :/ Furry isn't a fucking 'lifestyle' unless you think that god ment for you to be born a tiger and it's your whore of a mothers fault that you were born into an inferior hyuumin body or other crazy shit like that. However we have another word for that; 'Schizophrenic'.
The furry fandom would be a lot more fun if it wasn't so crazy and if the furries didn't realize that the 'fursicution' isn't ligitimate. Most people don't hate furries. Hell, most of the general population has no idea what a furry is. But some people online know damn well that if you say 'Yiff in hell furfag' you'll make a few furries go utterly berzerk. It's entertaining. It's just one group of internet nerds pissing off another group of internet nerds, it goes back to a long tradition of internet nerds fighting other internet nerds for no reason other than to make someone pissed off. Why else do Christian IRC channels get raided with people claiming there is no god?