Why Is It Anthropomorphic Animals In Cartoons Don't Wear Clothes?

[Khael!]

I'm beginning to wonder if there's anything people don't get off on. *~*;

The answer is surely a resounding no.

[DarkDrgon]

Originally Posted by Khael!

What the hell are the Warners, anyway? Not-quite dog things?

Come to think of it, most all of the Bugs Bunny animal characters don't do clothes. Except for Bugs in drag, really.

They had a song about it.

[Amake]

Originally Posted by TDK

He's an anthropomorphic STUFFED animal. A furry he ain't. And furries tend to be more like humans with animal fur and ears, things like that. Small features, mostly human body/limb shape.

Stuffed animals are still animals, especially living ones. And as for your definition of furries, have a load of dictionary.com:

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings. Subjects for anthropomorphism commonly include animals and plants depicted as creatures with human motivation able to reason and converse . . .

In conclusion furries are non-human creatures with human characteristics. Whatever you pretend Winnie the Pooh or all your darling childhood heroes to be so you don't have to group them in with awful, awful furries, you can't get around that.

[Si Civa]

Wasn't there that silly rule that you can make pornography about everything? Stupid, stupid rule. And thus I say fuck.
You can even have sexual innuendo about civil rights and that's not nice at all. Why our rights about our sexuality need to have sexual innuendo in them? Wicked world.

But now something completely different. Duck Amuck is one of the best short animated cartoons ever which nicely proves that why Daffy is the man or the duck.
Donald's voice is quite boyish and he needs to wear silly sailor hat all the time to feel that he is a man but Daffy speaks like a man, he doesn't need clothes to be a man.
But I still like Donald more.

You already said that clothes make animals more human like and I would like to add that caricature feeling is improved when animal wears certain profession's clothing. But you covered it quite well already, phooey.

[Tev]

Wasn't there a racial profiling "pass/fail" chart for furries? I'm pretty sure I've seen one floating about the internet.

EDIT: Also, the Gummi Bears got by with robes and mini skirts.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Invisible Queen

Stuffed animals are still animals, especially living ones. And there is no maximum amount of animal parts a humanoid can have and still be considered furry; just having an animal talk is enough. Are you in denial or what?

Animals that talk are called "ferals." As in like what that one kid asking for wolf sprites had as his title. "Furries" are the kind that stand on two legs.

[synkr0nized]

I think it'd be grand if we could steer this back to a discussion about clothes or the lack thereof and not continue down the furries and the related hatred/discussion of them being evil/etc. path.

[Tev]

Basically it comes down to the fact that most anthromorphic animals that make it to TV are drawn without lower sex parts. Clothes are in place as utility or to show job and social standing. Depending on the degree of anthromophism, female animals may have more clothing but for guys, a shirt and maybe a hat are all it takes. When you don’t have to worry about Baloo’s big bear wang hanging out you don’t bother drawing pants on hit furry butt.

EDIT: Mouse-type examples - Gadget VS the Mouse lady from the Secret of Nihm.


And

[Amake]

Man, Gadget's design is so deviously psychosexual. Me and I think everyone in my generation had funny feelings for her, in many cases things we'd never felt before. And that was without even seeing the tiny porn movie posters those animator jokers put in the background. (Wait, that was in the Rescuers movie, nevermind.)

Just had to share that.

[Seil]

And how dare you call Winnie the Motherfucking Pooh a goddamn furry. You should be ashamed.

Dude, I'd be the last person to call Pooh, or any of the animals in the Hundred Acre Wood a furry. Look who you're talking to here.