Crush...Yiff...Destroy!

5thehardway · Prattler Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 161

No, this is not the joint autobiography of The New Meat and Micahfennec. It's a thread on the Something Awful forums. Some choice quotes:

We were friends for several years before we finally decided to get hitched. We played lots of AD&D and other role-playing games, and were heavily into Amiga computers and science fiction. We had the same sense of humor. He drew, and did some minor writing. His claim to fame was that he wrote an article for Shadis Magazine about using Lizard Men as player characters. He mainly drew aliens, not anthropomorphs, and this was just before the internet exploded, so furry was still unheard of.

Furry is a lot like the Dark side of the Force. Once you start down the furry path, forever will it dominate your destiny!

This guy also never held a job the entire time we were married, was responsible for the death of two of my dogs, wanted a threesome with another man, and cybered other guys online. He also had anxieties that they haven't found names for, although I'm sure he's at least Bipolar, OCD, Health Anxiety Disorder, with maybe a bit of Bordeline and Asperger's thrown into the mix.

Charles then proceeded to tell me that he was bisexual, and had known for quite some time. Sex with another man was something he was very curious to try, and now realized that he wasn't going to get to do, and that prospect was sending him into a deep depression. He also told me a story of how when he was a teenager, he "borrowed" a vibrator of his mother's, and it had gotten stuck and he had to get it out WITH HIS MOTHER'S HELP. He next admitted that he had been having cyber-sex online, with one of his male internet friends.

Yes I know that it costs money to join SA, but I just know that many CYD folk are goons, and get the same delicious frisson from being furry goons that they get from wearing chaps with no pants, I'll wager.

AngryPuritan · TOP POSTER! Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 1437

I saw him at AC... :cry:

Yeah, that's pretty shitty of him to never try to provide for them, but I'm shocked she stuck around so long.

He was also a hypocrite. He claimed to hate furries, and yet he could never seem to disassociate from it. He was one, if not the main person responsible for a website that detailed the excesses of the furry community. He kept his identity anonymous because he was also working on an "anthropomorphic" webcomic as a writer and colorist.

ALERT ALERT

(Mitch, think he's that 3rdrailfurs guy?)

Fortunatley she used the images right from the site. Real picture of the guy (rightmost).

Philip Savage · Prattler Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 140

This would make one weird episode of Divorce Court...I'd watch it.

CrazyBomber · Prattler Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 141

That poor woman really deserves a medal for having been married with such a flaming weirdo.

stinkweedskunk · Prattler Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 155

I saw this guy at AC last year. I was impressed, as it was one of the most good-looking and elaborate fursuits there (aside from 03's robo-wolf). Now I know the background on this guy I didn't really need to know, thanks. :)

Abysmal Pea · Qualificator Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 23

The furriness itself doesn't seem to be much of a problem.

The baggage that so many furries happen to carry with them into the fandom is. What I see here is a sex-crazed man in denial, who also has very little of a life. And from the sounds of the post, his fetish is a threesome, not furriness. Looks like the real problem is insecurity or something along the lines of that.

My god, why does there have to be so much shit that accompanies furries? :?

But the fact that he looks like Splinter makes me laugh and admire the suit at the same time.

Kadius · Needs to get out more Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 921

So he left his wife because she couldn't feed his hungry ass.

My god, why does there have to be so much shit that accompanies furries?

Furries are a bit more messed up than most people. Probably because the 'I wanna be an animal' fantasy draws in people looking for an escape.

AngryPuritan · TOP POSTER! Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 1437

So he left his wife because she couldn't feed his hungry ass.

No, she left him because after years of thinking "I can change him" she finally had enough with him being a total psychologically abusive fucktwit.

Furries are a bit more messed up than most people. Probably because the 'I wanna be an animal' fantasy draws in people looking for an escape.

It's like any other fan function (Anime, D&D) some are there for appreciation/fun, some are there for escapism, and some are REALLY there for toying about where they completely lack other social skills.

The furry wasn't the problem with him, the weird ass shit was.

Abysmal Pea · Qualificator Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 23

Furries are a bit more messed up than most people. Probably because the 'I wanna be an animal' fantasy draws in people looking for an escape.

But I thought all those people were therians or something, and we'd be able to differentiate. ; 0;

LoKi · Venter Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 287

I just wonder why in the world she was married to that freak for so long, if he had no job and acted like that?

Mitch · Vociferator Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 670

He was one, if not the main person responsible for a website that detailed the excesses of the furry community. He kept his identity anonymous because he was also working on an "anthropomorphic" webcomic as a writer and colorist.

ALERT ALERT

(Mitch, think he's that 3rdrailfurs guy?)

Nope, I am pretty sure he's this guy ;)

nopedestrian · Prattler Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 142

I just wonder why in the world she was married to that freak for so long, if he had no job and acted like that?

Or why she married him in the first place. If he had this many things wrong with him that bothered her, they should have become apparent very early on. At least, uh, before the proposal anyway.

If you go out with a guy and these flaws slowly start to reveal themselves, great, fine, then it's a great story about a weirdo to tell your friends about.

But how intelligent is this woman to not be aware of any of this and MARRY this guy.

My guess: she does a lot of the same things that she's now mocking him for. She's probably a furry herself.

5thehardway · Prattler Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 161

But how intelligent is this woman to not be aware of any of this and MARRY this guy.

Actually, I'd guess that she's quite intelligent, but just doesn't or didn't have a goddamn clue socially-- although she's probably sadder and wiser now.

AngryPuritan · TOP POSTER! Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 1437

One has to consider that not only are you getting one side of a tale that often has a clear villian and a self depriciating hero (as stories of exs often do) but that many of the things he told her about himself, like the dildo bit, may have been outright lies to try to characterize himself as more misunderstood or something.

Cephus · Prattler Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 109

No, she left him because after years of thinking "I can change him" she finally had enough with him being a total psychologically abusive fucktwit.

That's the problem right there, you can't change anyone. Either you like them for who they are, or you hang a right at the next intersection and find someone better.

It's like any other fan function (Anime, D&D) some are there for appreciation/fun, some are there for escapism, and some are REALLY there for toying about where they completely lack other social skills.

I think in furry, the vast majority of people who were there for the appreciation/fun left a long time ago and we're left with the socially clueless idiot who has nowhere else to go. Unfortunately, furry fandom is so stupidly tolerant of anyone and everyone that we'll never get rid of these morons.

Monkey King · Vociferator Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 488

I think in furry, the vast majority of people who were there for the appreciation/fun left a long time ago and we're left with the socially clueless idiot who has nowhere else to go. Unfortunately, furry fandom is so stupidly tolerant of anyone and everyone that we'll never get rid of these morons.

Spot on. I may technically still be a furry, but I sure as hell don't hang out with my "peers" any more because they're all like this guy. I kind of wonder if even the smut is really central to furry anymore, or if it's just the facade for the ultimate resting place of the lowest dregs of nerddom.

I think this poor woman just didn't stop and delve into those red flags she saw before getting married, and then made the classic error of thinking she could change her man. At least she sounds like she learned a helluva lot from her ordeal, even if five years was way too long for most rational people to stick with such a person.

Important lesson here, kids. Love don't conquer all.

RabidRick · Qualificator Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 28

It's like any other fan function (Anime, D&D) some are there for appreciation/fun, some are there for escapism, and some are REALLY there for toying about where they completely lack other social skills.

I've noticed this, too, for sure....

I think it's a product of the "Internet Generation."

I never really knew what Second Life was until I read about it in the media, and the extent to which some people go with it gets really scary. Fuck it -- if I had a partner and all they wanted to do was "cyber" with some other roll-player online I'd get pissed off and leave them, too.

Maybe he'll find a like-minded person, though, and they can live their roll-playing fantasies together.... whatever.

"TYPE FASTER! TYPE FASTER!!!"

bobby · Prattler Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 167

Guessing from the "writer and colorist" comment she made on SA that it's this guy: http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Charles_Caffrey

Monkey King · Vociferator Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 488

Guessing from the "writer and colorist" comment she made on SA that it's this guy: http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Charles_Caffrey

Oh, so he's the one responsible for those hideous Sims models? Hell, for that alone he deserves punishment.

Squizzle · Prattler Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 127

Guessing from the "writer and colorist" comment she made on SA that it's this guy: http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Charles_Caffrey

... ohshi

Seraph · Apocrisiary Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 50

Since it was metioned in the article:

I know what a furry cliche it is to have Asperger's Syndrome, But I'd still like to think that not ALL of the social retardation and asswit behaviour in the fandom can be blamed on this one scapegoat 'condition'. It turns people into nerds, not psychos or pity-parties or assholes.

Monkey King · Vociferator Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 488

I've personally known three furries with Aspberger's (well, two and one person who claims to have it). One of them simply suffered from a poor upbringing, and had no clue how to actually live with his condition; him being furry was just incidental to his being intensely annoying. Another loves to talk about politics - and thinks Bill O'Reilly is a moderate. The third, I've argued at length with on both pedophilia and bestiality, without making a dent in his wall of non-logic.

So, pardon me if I'm a bit biased.

Obviously, not every furry can blame their issues on Aspberger's, but those that do have it all seem to fall into the utter nincompoop category. Like so many other people who fail at life, I think furry just ends up as the repository for the Aspies who are unable to adapt, and fail at integrating into all other social sectors. They find a place with the one fandom that won't reject you no matter how inept, misguided, or disgusting you might be.

This isn't to say that all people with Aspberger's fail at life, just that the ones that end up in furry overwhelmingly tend to do so. Mental disabilities don't make a person a psycho, pity-party, or asshole, they just compound the social ineptitude.

Seraph · Apocrisiary Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 50

On average, adults with Asperger's weren't properly handled as children. The problem was either not diagnosed or not understood, and they weren't given the extra attention that they needed. Instead being treated like 'retards' or 'problem children' by adults and as 'weirdos' by other kids - and that does tend to result in being screwed up... yet it's so easily preventable with just a little bit of guidance at a young age.