Crush...Yiff...Destroy!

Octan · Coadjutor Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 77

AAACK!!! ANOTHER ARTICLE THAT CLAIMS THAT FURRIES ARE ALL CRAZED FETISHISTS WHO HAVE SEX IN THEIR FURSUITS!!! WHEN WILL IT ALL STOP?!!!

I am getting so tired of this. No doubt they saw CSI and went looking for specificaly the kind of "furry" that the show portrayed. And once again the media mistranslates "plushie." Come ON you guys, what does it SOUND like it means?! That's right: "plush toy."

At least I can take comfort knowing NE PA is far from my PA relatives, who would no doubt take this article at its word, just like everyone else who read the ****ing article!

(mumbles something about anthrax)

Skunkfuckers Inc. · Needs to get out more Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 1006

There's nothing inherantly wrong with anything you just said (except for maybe the terroristic threat to release a deadly biological substance in an attack on the newspaper offices).

What's wrong is that the exact same thing will be said with equal conviction, even by the very same people that article describes perfectly :evil:

And by that same token, any article no matter how open minded, fair and balanced, how well researched or written, will always rise the ire of furries if it doesn't portray them exactily the way they perceive themselves to be (which, in a fandom that's based around being something else to the point of loathing what you really are, is most of the time wrong).

Anything not 100% positive must be 100% negative, is unacceptable and must be vilified.

Dr. Dos · Vociferator Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 718

Octan.

I live in a northeastern PA town called West Pittston.

We have two local newspapers.

The Citizens' Voice and

The Times Leader

so now I really want to know who found this article because to my knowledge it's just a small town paper.

Rankin · TOP POSTER! Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 1659

AAACK!!! ANOTHER ARTICLE THAT CLAIMS THAT FURRIES ARE ALL CRAZED FETISHISTS WHO HAVE SEX IN THEIR FURSUITS!!! WHEN WILL IT ALL STOP?!!!

So, only about 70% 'yiff in their fursuits'. I fail to see where the rest is misleading. Those who aren't in it for some perverse reason either haven't learned about the furry underbelly (which requires pretty damned large blinders), or is just deluding themselves.

Here, some fchan will make you feel better... or not.

Computolio · Needs to get out more Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 865

PROTIP: FURRY IS MORE OR LESS A FULL-BLOWN FETISH CULTURE NOW, COMPLETE W/ ALL THE WONDERFUL WONDERFUL BAGGAGE THAT COMES WITH IT. DEAL.

The New Meat · Needs to get out more Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 933

AAACK!!! ANOTHER ARTICLE THAT CLAIMS THAT FURRIES ARE ALL CRAZED FETISHISTS WHO HAVE SEX IN THEIR FURSUITS!!! WHEN WILL IT ALL STOP?!!!

I am getting so tired of this. No doubt they saw CSI and went looking for specificaly the kind of "furry" that the show portrayed. And once again the media mistranslates "plushie." Come ON you guys, what does it SOUND like it means?! That's right: "plush toy."

At least I can take comfort knowing NE PA is far from my PA relatives, who would no doubt take this article at its word, just like everyone else who read the ****ing article!

(mumbles something about anthrax)

Oh, BOO FUCKING HOO. Reporters don't make shit up, they just report what other people tell them. So maybe one of these days, someone should try telling them what the difference between plushies and fursuiting is if it's so Goddamn important. "No, plushies means fucking stuffed toys and fursuiting means dressing up in costumes and fucking GET IT RIGHT GETTING THIS RIGHT IS VITAL TO THE CONTINUED EXISTANCE OF TEH UNIVERSE"

Okay, yeah, reporters can slant an article by who they choose to talk to or how they write about the topic, but this one was pretty inoffensive. Definitely more of a "Gosh, how odd and varied is the human sexual experience!" than a "HOLY SHIT FREAKS" kind of piece. You want her to leave out the interesting bits? You want a boring as shit article about a guy who likes cartoons? Look, this woman is a reporter. It's her job to find interesting things and write about them and that's what she did. It's a hard job, because you have to get a lot of info fast and it's inevitable that some mistakes will get through. All in all, she did a pretty good job.

Like Skunkfuckers said, if ian article's not gushing praise furries think the fucking sky is falling. I've worked in the papers a bit and you always get these people who are convinced that, if you don't let them write the article themselves, you're out to libel them.

TOUGH FUCKING NOOGIES.

edit: Also, on this board, you don't have to *** out your swear words.

Paul · Needs to get out more Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 1092

AAACK!!! ANOTHER ARTICLE THAT CLAIMS THAT FURRIES ARE ALL CRAZED FETISHISTS WHO HAVE SEX IN THEIR FURSUITS!!! WHEN WILL IT ALL STOP?!!!

In addition to what others have said already... Just read what the article actually says about furries: "Some, like St-A-tiK, have sexual fantasies about stuffed animals and fur". Some, not all.

Also, the CYD forum is probably the wrong place to complain about the allegedly bad press furries are getting.

PS: It's amusing that the ad next to the article is for a "family vacation" to Walt Disney World. Fursuits galore! :wink:

ZenZhu · TOP POSTER! Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 1510

AAACK!!! ANOTHER ARTICLE THAT CLAIMS THAT FURRIES ARE ALL CRAZED FETISHISTS WHO HAVE SEX IN THEIR FURSUITS!!! WHEN WILL IT ALL STOP?!!!

Maybe when furry gets a grip on itself and does something to try and rope in those in their ranks that will all too happily look vapidly at a person and ramble on about how they like to park their sausage in their Meeko plushie or how their "true" self is a double-dicked sea-foam green dragon with copper nipples.

Oh, yeah... and also when furrydom on the whole stops readily making itself look like sex-crazed fetishists who jack off to Stitch porn and have hottie-hot mansex while dressed as Sherlock Hound and Holmes.

DA · Vociferator Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 595

I notice we have people afterwards screaming 'the fandoms not all like that' 'it's wrong' and similar but where were those people when the reporters were talking to people?

ZenZhu · TOP POSTER! Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 1510

Eh.. just the classic furry MO.... dance around in your fursuit and wave your dick at the camera. Pour your heart out about how you're a misplaced bear spirit and like to shit your britches to the guy from the Tribune. Then, when they show the footage with your fun-pack of Lifesavers blurred out and print an article about your ursine shit-fest, scream bloody murder about how furrydom is nothing like that.

Sure, at its heart, it was nothing like that. But... smear enough shit on the walls, and pretty soon you can't even remember what color the paint used to be.

Luke, a 23-year-old wolf from Philadelphia, said he first discovered his furry fetish when he found arousal from a stuffed bear. He also found sexual pleasure while watching animal cartoons.

"I thought I was a freak. I would watch cartoons and would somehow feel turned on by the animal characters. I started masturbating with stuffed animals and I couldn't get turned on during sex with my girlfriend without a stuffed animal being involved somehow. At that point, I searched fetishes online and found a furry site. It was then that I realized I wasn't the only one. I was furry, just like one of them," Luke said.

Never fear, Luke. We're here to ease your mind. You are a freak. There.. now go and be freaky.

AngryPuritan · Needs to get out more Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 1361

AAACK!!! ANOTHER ARTICLE THAT CLAIMS THAT FURRIES ARE ALL CRAZED FETISHISTS WHO HAVE SEX IN THEIR FURSUITS!!! WHEN WILL IT ALL STOP?!!!

I am getting so tired of this. No doubt they saw CSI and went looking for specificaly the kind of "furry" that the show portrayed. And once again the media mistranslates "plushie." Come ON you guys, what does it SOUND like it means?! That's right: "plush toy."

At least I can take comfort knowing NE PA is far from my PA relatives, who would no doubt take this article at its word, just like everyone else who read the ****ing article!

(mumbles something about anthrax)

TEH DRAHMA!

Really, you act like you're all going to be crated up on cattle cars later this afternoon.

subversive · Prattler Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 183

thoughts

I clicked on your website link, and noticed your name. I might be way off base here, but do you do something with marionettes or puppets or something at furry cons?

Dr. Dos · Vociferator Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 718

Octan wasn't nice enough to tell everybody on this forum but he gave up the internet for Lent?

Seriously. He gave up the internet for all purposes other than updating his comic or something along those lines. Ask again on Easter.

Rankin · TOP POSTER! Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 1659

I gave up the internet - but it came back and threatened to cut me if I didn't do it's bidding. :(