Ahh, this is a lot like the 'Cross-Gender RPers' thread.
I am sorry you were fussed at by some kid over your character, though, Feareh. Your jaguar Feareh is beautiful, and I adore his colors, bio, and everything. <3
The thing with having a fursona that is a different gender than yourself is less about the gender, and more about what that character means to you.
It's not weird, it's not 'disgusting', it's just another character.
For example, I use Linger, my white-maned, male lion, as my main avatar. Of course, I am female in real life, and Linger is a male lion. However, I don't see him exactly as myself. Like all of my characters, I give them some of my own traits, which makes them mean something to me. In this case, Linger is like my male 'counterpart', since he shares a lot of my own qualities. He is a guardian-type lion, the same way I find myself acting like a guardian/caregiver over my real-life and in-game friends and fellows, often by instinct. So, in that way, I sympathize with him, and see him as something close to me.
He was also one of those characters that just kind of 'happened', and something about his design and the few times I roleplayed as him simply fell into place, and 'he' told me that he was the guardian type.
(For any hardcore roleplayers, you may understand what I mean by a character doing things seemingly 'on their own'. xD But, I digress.)
Or, going in the totally opposite direction, one's avatar doesn't even have to be super-similar to yourself for you to use them a lot. Or a little. If you like the character... Then what's the big deal, anyway? Self-expression is key, and if you like your character, that's what matters, and makes them beautiful.