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news coverage that doesn't make us look weird

Ranzun the Dragon-Shark

Ranzun the Dragon-Shark

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Van Ishikawa said:
Life is pain~

Normal furries are visually uninteresting at furry gatherings. Who would you talk to, as a journalist, to investigate the fandom: the dude with the Iron Maiden shirt that otherwise looks reasonably well adjusted or ACID HORSE?

The crazy looking ones are believed to have more invested in the fandom and are better representatives as a sort. Which makes sense in some ways: you wouldn't talk to the waterboy of a football team for the team's thoughts on the game.
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Okay, there's a difference between being a freak and being a normal and INTERESTING person... Normal doesn't mean your BORING, neither is being a freak make you interesting at all...


The football comparison was just blah. Out there..... Of course you wouldn't interview the waterboy, because he's a scrub. You would interview the team captains, because they're normal and interesting. No one wants a freak to lead their team.


There's a difference between interviewing a fat-ass and a perfectly-normal looking human being. Ya know what I mean? You make a valid point there though =P
 
Van Ishikawa

Van Ishikawa

ZOMBIE KAEL LOVES YOU
Ranzun the Dragon-Shark said:
Okay, there's a difference between being a freak and being a normal and INTERESTING person... Normal doesn't mean your BORING, neither is being a freak make you interesting at all...


The football comparison was just blah. Out there..... Of course you wouldn't interview the waterboy, because he's a scrub. You would interview the team captains, because they're normal and interesting. No one wants a freak to lead their team.


There's a difference between interviewing a fat-ass and a perfectly-normal looking human being. Ya know what I mean? You make a valid point there though =P
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To the media, freaks are more interesting. And even when its not a subculture as sexualized as ours, they will seek out those to which it is an important part of their life. You do a documentary on Coke products, you don't talk to some random guy who drinks it for lunch; you talk to the guy who has covered his house in Coke memorabilia. The waterboy and the quarterback are both part of football team, but one of them has a much more vested interest and participates more to the group.
 
Oovie

Oovie

Fabulous Secret Powers
I love athletic fursuiters, there is this enchantment of delight and wonder seeing them break-dancing or performing gymnastics. My personal favorite is seeing one skateboard, if you had a sense of weirdness at all it's long gone as it has become enjoyable to view. What one man can do physically, another man in a tiger suit will always make it look more enjoyable.

I suppose I may be suggesting redeeming ourselves through entertainment. :rolleyes:
 
Stargazer Bleu

Stargazer Bleu

2b forgot is worse than death
For the most part news thats all nice and warm hearted dosent get as good ratings.
Well maybe if they do a couple thats like 15 seconds.

News thats bad, or points out bad things, even if it just the minority, seems to get better ratings.
Its these things that most ppl see, and belive to be the only truth.
 
Taralack

Taralack

Hit 'em right between the eyes
Oovie said:
I love athletic fursuiters, there is this enchantment of delight and wonder seeing them break-dancing or performing gymnastics.
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I've only ever seen one fursuiter pull off glowsticking well. It was great to watch.
 
TeeJay the GolFaux

TeeJay the GolFaux

Everywhere but Nowhere.
Van Ishikawa said:
Life is pain~

((Normal furries)) are visually uninteresting at furry gatherings. Who would you talk to, as a journalist, to investigate the fandom: the dude with the Iron Maiden shirt that otherwise looks reasonably well adjusted or ACID HORSE?

The ((crazy)) looking ones are believed to have more invested in the fandom and are better representatives as a sort. Which makes sense in some ways: you wouldn't talk to the waterboy of a football team for the team's thoughts on the game.
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Ok, you just said I am more interesting to talk to. If thats the case why is everyone being so mean? I do not want hate, I want love.
 
Taralack

Taralack

Hit 'em right between the eyes
No, everyone just thinks you're crazy.
 
TeeJay the GolFaux

TeeJay the GolFaux

Everywhere but Nowhere.
I dont care if everyone thinks Im crazy, I love myself for who I am, and if you people cant accept that, then I dont accept you, and I choose not to respect you. Case closed, I have about 2 more hours to talk....
 
Ieatcrackersandjumpcliffs

Ieatcrackersandjumpcliffs

Fighter of the Nightman
Faris said:
I think that anyone who's ever watched CSI or that one Oprah episode has a bad opinion of furries. If you can find a positive news article about furries I will marry you.
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CSI did nothing to ruin the fandom's rep.
 
Redregon

Redregon

Banned
Banned
Luca said:
I found one once that wasn't so bad. It was a local story about how a convention in the area actually does the towns economy good.
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yep, i think last Anthrocon they managed to dump something like nearly a million dollars into the local economy.

hell, Steel City Diner (gods rest it's delicious hoagies) afaik managed to rake in something like $50,000 in profits alone. sad that they're gone now, i'm going to miss them.
 
Van Ishikawa

Van Ishikawa

ZOMBIE KAEL LOVES YOU
Faris said:
Watch the episode Fur and Loathing.
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If you're like me and watch CSI almost entirely for Grissom, furries don't come out as all that bad. Yes there were a couple things that were taken a bit far but really nothing all that much greater than typical Hollywood exaggeration. though I haven't seen the episode in a while...
 
Debacle

Debacle

Time is Catching Up
The news is a well-respected source of correct information that is never wrong and isn't bias in any way whatsoever.

Oh, wait.
 
Ieatcrackersandjumpcliffs

Ieatcrackersandjumpcliffs

Fighter of the Nightman
Faris said:
Watch the episode Fur and Loathing.
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I have, and even after watching it I never knew what furry was until mid 07. It's not magazines or TV shows that makes furrydom look bad, it's furries who have to brag, draw and post their kinks everywhere on the internet.
 
neelix zidphinlan

neelix zidphinlan

I am © to my self & ® to furs
If you think about it everyone is a freak! <-............................................
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We aren't weird. Just FUCKING INSANE!..... But I don't give a shit cuz this .

IS TRUE!!!!!.......…*forrest gump voice* thats what I have to say about that. LoL
 
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skunkspray03

Member
I highly doubt it... The fandom is stuck in a stereotype; everyone thinks that we're, to put it bluntly, a bunch of zoophiles, that put on weird suits that make us look like push toys.

It's like the Wiccan religion. They have the same problem, being labeled as Satan-worshipers, when it is entirely false. It would be imposable to get people to believe the truth, because:

1) they are so dead set on the stereotype that they won't listen to anything else
2) the people don't want to be told that they're wrong, thus, ratings go down if news coverage were released displaing furries in a positive light
 
Foxstar

Foxstar

lol reggin
Defcat said:
I'm not %100 sure that there was much to ruin in the first place. correct me if I'm wrong.
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Long ago, furry fandom were little more then nerds who enjoyed RPing as demihumans and enjoyed shows and books with anthro themes. Much like video game fans focus on video games and so on and so forth. A small subsect mixed in their lust for sex with other like minded people. Being adults, most of them knew how to measure this out and so in order to find out about the adult art in the fandom, you had to do some legwork.

Around the mid 80's/early 90's, this changed, as sexless neckbeards with a interest in furry joined and realized that they could have their cake and eat it too. This along with many other factors led to the shaping of the fandom as a fetish driven, oversexed group of manchildren, a number of which have a myriad of untreated mental issues.
 
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