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| 02:41am 27/10/2009 |
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I've been kind of slow with the news lately, I've had to move out of my New Jersey home back to my home state of New York. So between my imbalance and being on crappy internet again I get wind of another lesson in the school of the world. I heard there was going to be a convention in my home state. Little did I know it was going to be "...the single most important thing to happen to furry since hotel pizza delivery."
Which brings me to my point. I know you're trying to compete with Anthrocon, FurFreight, Further Confusion, SupercaliFURgulisticexpialadosCON. But let's take a look at the background shall we. You had some yearly Christmas party with a few furs, and every year it kept growing. Last year the house got a bit crowded with 55... so what to do? I know, we'll do what Anthrocon did and make it into a convention, but uh... one problem Anthrocon didn't SAY they were going to be "...the single most important thing to happen to furry since hotel pizza delivery." Their goal wasn't to be big, special, or important. It was just to be. And before you can change the course of history, you have to learn to walk, and feed yourself.
In other words, pizza delivery only became an important thing to furries (Opps I mean EVERYONE) because the pizza guy could make it into the hotel. |
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| Our Companies don't care for Rural People |
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| 12:42am 18/10/2009 |
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In this day and age, highspeed internet is not only a way of life, it is a necessity. So when I come home to my parent's house, I know very much the crap box of satellite internet that awaits me, making me miss the speedy little Optimum service. For $30 a month I had a 15 MBps Downstream to come home to a $70 a month 1 MBPS downstream. It's so bad that the New Jersey service's UPLOAD speeds are twice as fast as HughesNet's DOWNLOAD speeds.
Broadbrand providers will not go out to the rural areas of this country. To me, it is discrimination, straight up. Sure some may cry, "Oh it's because the population density makes the area less profitable." Well that train of logic is filled to the brim with more manure then the heftiest of muck spreaders, that could fertilize every grain field for all of eternity.
First of there is an extreme incentive to be the first broadband company to sink your teeth into the rural pie. You'll practically own the market, especially if you provide the speeds that can support a internet using rural family. Satellite internet folds really easily in concurrent situations. They'll drop their satellite provider faster then a termite infested wagon.
Secondly, to make up for equipment costs and such, by all means charge more to rural people then you do to urban. They'll understand. Heck I'll even give you a target number. $65 dollars a month. You see HughesNet and Wildblue are laughing at your sorry asses because you have left them uncontested in the rural market, and because of this they are charging rural residents up the ass for their serves. More then twice what you're getting per household in heavily contested areas. Think of this, if you could choose between two customers, which would you choose? One who you'll get 30 bucks out of every month who is more apt to drop you for a fierce competitor? Or one who you'll get 70 dollars a month out of and because you're the only one who provides broadband speeds they'll have no choice but to stay with you or go much slower?
AT&T saw the potential in the rural market, in the late 1800s their goal was to stretch there services out the remotest areas. They easily cornered the market even to the point of monopoly status. Great money to be had I'm sure. So my question to modern Broadband service providers is this. Why are people from such a 'primitive' age technologically far better at their business of providing services then yourselves? So much for American ingenuity. |
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| On Twitter, with a catch. |
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| 05:57pm 13/10/2009 |
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I have decided to start tweeting, however, I will not use Twitter as the masses do. I will not be telling you where a am or anything of too much importance there. For if I had something that was actually important to say I would need more then 160 characters to say it. Instead I have decided to use it as a challenge. I will try to come up with some clever daily quote that can fit in a tweet and post them.
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| Meet the Tyries... |
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| 09:08pm 18/09/2009 |
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Of course with all the serious business, the final part of my three part series is going out on a laugh.
I created a video celebrate this event by making a video introducing us to the Tyra Banks Fandom, who like to wear fake hair, take baths in Vaseline, and have sex dressed like Tyra Banks.
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| How the Fandom Should React to Ms. Banks |
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| 02:29pm 17/09/2009 |
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Ok, now for my second post dealing with this subject matter, and most of you will be wondering why I didn't attack ChewFox or do any of that. The reason is I thought it is quite obvious who the real culprit was here, and if you don't you can watch the video again.
One of the biggest myths surrounding this is that "Chewfox has now spread the rumor that the entire fandom is about having sex in animal costumes." This is false. Why is this false? Watch the video again.
In fact I'll give you a play by play.
Tyra Banks set up the interview using her own biased defintion, and probably selected a furry who (probably in a pre-Interview) had sex in an animal costume.
1) "...And one of these couples are furries meaning they have sex in animal costumes." -Tyra Banks
2) "...Which leaves us with #1, they think you are the furries and you like to have sex in animal costumes." Tyra Banks
"Tell us about what a furry does." -Tyra Banks asks them AFTER already defining it for her audience with her definition twice.
Chewfox defines: "Furries are people who have an inner animal they like to celebrate." That's one definition I have heard, which kinda miffs the anti-spiritualists, however the 'inner animal' doesn't have to be a spirit it could be a fursona. I sort of do think a majority of the fandom has a fursona, it's certainly a better definition then Tyra told. However, because of Tyra, ChewFox might as well be a fortune cookie. The audience is going to add the word "in bed" at the end of every one of her sentences (That grin on her audiences face after Chewfox defines kind of proves that to me). She continues with expression through costume and artwork, which even if a minority of the fandom can express themselves with costume and drawing ability it is certainly something they like to do. But once again, "in bed".
"So you mean like a football game..." - Tyra tries to bring it back to the mascot thing. Chewfox confusing the context uses that to describe us as a social group who like to go to meets, dance (in bed), and have fun (in bed).
"When you go to Disney world do you get turned on?" -Tyra, Tyra, Tyra. What a little pervy you are thinking of people getting turned on at Disney World. Yes, she chose Disney world, a place that people connect with children. "You see Mickey Mouse go "Hi" you go "ooooh yeah"... Wow, thanks Tyra, I know your audience has as much intelligence as you, so I guess you had to spell out your sick fantasy for them.
No here is the big one that's been mistranslated because of Tyra Bank's earlier definitions were all the context needed. She is one sly bitch. She asked them this question, already knowing the answer, and knowing when they answered it our fandom could no longer call Tyra a liar, and instead we'd have to persecute ChewFox. Here is the question that as General Akbar would say. "IT'S A TRAP!"
"Do YOU have sex with the costume on?" -Tyra Banks, already knows the answer to this question. As my previous post already surmises she pre-screens her guests for optimum stereotype. If you honestly took the time to ask ChewFox and TomCat if they were asked about this prior to the show, I'd bet on the fact they were.
Of course, since ChewFox does, she did not lie and said "Yes" clamping the snare. So now here she is, representing the fandom, asked if she has sex in costume. Her actions now tie with everyone. Tyra has made herself clean of hate and has put it all on ChewFox. However, I am not that dumb. I have followed politics and human sociology too long to fall for this "Strawman" tactic. CSI used it on one of our own, and only later, after the person was chastised and destroyed from the fandom that THEY 'stretched the truth'. ChewFox will be lucky if she ever got that. The last thing any 'pre-Madonna' hussy who cares so much about their outward appearance they'd make a career out of it would do is admit they have fallacies. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but Tyra has more then earned this title.
And the rest just goes on about... "SPHs", fursonas, and the like. However the stage was already set.
"Are you fur real?" Tyra.
No, Tyra, they are a figment of your pre-defined imagination, just like the fact that your show is making any difference in the world at large.
In conclusion. It's Tyra's show, Tyra defined what a furry is without even them making an utterance, Tyra decided to have them on a show about sex, Tyra asked them silly questions.
Us as a fandom should come together as we have before. We knew exactly how to handle Alan Panda how he should be handled. A sicko pervert who has proved that we no longer have any association with him. Here we seem to be trying to do the same with ChewFox. ChewFox herself however did nothing wrong but be naive about how the media works. We should come together against the person who used our fandom for a ratings boost, against the person who wrongly defined us on national TV. This is why I posted that article about the dirt on Tyra. We need to educate people about this woman, and why she is a fraud. We should do as ColorofChange.org did to Beck. We should instead of attacking ourselves from within use all this energy to run a campaign against Tyra banks. Boycotts of her advertisers, try to contact people who have been disenfrancised by her before and get them to tell their story. Make it so that Tyra is seen at the end of the day for what she is, a joke. |
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| The Manufactured Inner and Outter Beuty of Tyra Banks |
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| 10:14pm 16/09/2009 |
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If you don't know who Tyra Banks is, then it's probably because you know who Opera is. If Opera and Maury had a love child, it'd probably be Ms. Banks. Of course if she got the worst side of both parents. From Opera she would take the belief that she's actually doing good in the word, and leave behind the actually doing good in the world. From Maury she'd take the shock and awe sensationalist freak show aspect, while removing the seeking of the truth on who's the baby's daddy.
Here we have a woman who pretends to care about people with differences, while running a show that people bear the brunt of their sexual identities and chuckling like a school girl the whole way knowing how much bank she will get off of such taboo subjects. The fact she got a self-identified furry is no surprise, because furries need money, some to just get by in this economy, and Tyra will be more then happy to provide.
The thing is she probably wouldn't have paid them if they didn't say they had sex in fur suits. Because Tyra would NEVER, sift out the most extremely stereotypical for her television shows.
Also as far as women on television go, Tyra is yet another major figure who talk out both sides of her head. She runs campaigns to help women feel good about themselves, despite their flaws. She teaches of inner beauty. But I can say to you, the ugliness of Tyra is that she's more then happy to preach acceptance of one's body, while having shows sponsored by beauty pharmaceuticals to educate woman on how to make themselves look like her. {Sarcasm} Girls, inner beauty is all that matters, because that's defiantly how Tyra Banks got on the TV. It's not like it was because she was a model or anything... no... and she never wrote a book and sold it to women about being beautiful inside AND OUT... because the out shouldn't matter right? {/sarcasm}
More after these words.
This show has been provided to you by, VASELINE:
Tyra Banks Goes Insane - Watch more Funny Videos
So as far as Tyra Banks goes, I feel her inner beauty is incalculable, since everything surrounding her show and person has been manufactured. I mean look at the 'Hate Being gay' Episode and tell me it's not fake. If a person hates being gay WHY WOULD THEY GO ON TV AND TELL THE WORLD THEY'RE GAY? I can't answer that question, it's illogical, there's no way they could have found anyone who really hates themselves being gay, because they would never admit it. So I wonder if she has access to people who are probably gay for pay or something.
Oh, yep apparently she knows them quite well:
(by the way, this guy feels more in control as a SUBMISSIVE??? He's not gay for pay, he's gay-for-pay for pay)
Hmmm... I wonder if any of her previous guests would admit the same.
Here is my advise to the world, if you want to find real beauty, then turn off the television. Stop having people like Tyra tell you what things are or are not. She might be naive that her beauty is being used in order to propagate stereotype, though somehow I doubt it. She spends alot of time manufacturing her look, in more ways then one.
I might be a furry, I may have a fursona, but at least I know who I am and what I stand for, and that's my inner beauty. Your inner 'beauty', Tyra, is being a tool. Like the book 1984 you say you stand for inner beauty while running shows that promote the opposite, and if I had to describe you in three words it would be this. "Beauty is Ugly." |
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| Good Bill VS Bad Bill |
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| 01:34pm 21/08/2009 |
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How do you tell when a bill is good for America or bad for America?
Bills that are bad for America are written and pushed through with little discussion. (Patriot Act, 'Bail Out')
Bills that are good for America are dangled in front of the people until the rich can get enough people convinced that it's bad, and get the bill watered down. |
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| To save the Patient we sometimes have to cut off the leg. |
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| 05:07pm 16/08/2009 |
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So while Rush Limbaugh embraces the idea of Obama as the Joker I wonder why no one has made a connection that is far too obvious. Why have I yet to hear Blue Cross & Blue Sheild's COBRA compared to the terrorist organization of G.I. Joe? They're both pretty hell bend on destroying America.
Alright, maybe that was a bit too harsh, maybe the health insurance industry doesn't realize it's destroying America. But in essence it is, and I'll explain why.
It'd take a fool not to notice that there is a substancial amount of GDP growth in the healthcare industry, so much so that it is now 1/5 of the money our country makes. There are alot of factors that contribute to this. America's health paranoia is a primary one. It makes them buy drugs to ensure they don't get sick, drugs for when they do get sick. It even drives some to believe they're sick when they are not.
Add this to the fact that a majority of Americans have a high percentage of their medical bills payed by multi-million dollar corporations of course medical facilities are going to charge higher prices, everyone's backed by a super rich person, except for the minority that aren't.
There are only two ways to remedy this. Make sure EVERYONE is backed by this rich person, which requires laws, processes and headaches. Or the second option, crash the rich person down to everyone else's level. This the people actually have power over, in a solution that is simple and easy its scary.
A majority of our country simply drop their health insurance.
That's right, it's that easy to solve the health care crisis. It's simple, easy, though risky. But as we know, in health, weather it be of a nation or an individual, sometimes the only way to cure a terminally ill patient is to do a procedure that is as dangerous, or more dangerous then the illness itself. Like vomit it leaves a nasty insecure taste in your mouth, but it is better the empty the poisonous disagreeable elements then to absorb them and the consequences be dire.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself, and though we fear what can happen to us, what illness we could have tomorrow, we should look beyond ourselves and to he wellness of our nation for future generations. And thus, I would hope that we can realize we have the power over a reform, a new reform, where the people do what's in there power to cut medical expenses. And by using the power of community help their neighbors through the hard times.
In other word it's time for Americans to be G.I.Joes... and destroy COBRA and all those like them, by not funding them. |
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| I'm fucked |
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| 08:23pm 17/07/2009 |
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America is the land of hope, and hope is the first step on the road to disappointment, and not only have I dragged myself into despair I let myself drag someone else into it as well...
This is the lowest day of my life. |
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| AC and the Media 3 |
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| 11:15pm 04/07/2009 |
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You know what it's time for? That's right, another Anthrocon, and as a result its time for my third installment of the media's reaction to 'the furry' and this year it was quite extensive.
Old issuses:
2007
2008
Apparently the negative has reared its ugly head again. And it seems that they had time to put in new stories about us between their endless mourning over Michael Jackson. Makes me wish he had died a few days later some of these. It also has become apparent that it looks like furries are going to always have some kind of a tussel with baseball players.
I think I'm gonna break tradition though, as I can hardly really sense an overall negativity or positivity to any of these, the first one I view as mostly negative, however most the others blur so much it's tough for me to label, so I won't bother with the labels.
CNN
Yes one of the big, puny minded, corporate bought and paid for, idio-supreme decided that there wasn't enough going on in the world, so they look to the furries to lighten their day.
Now Mr.Cooper, I know CNN has been trying so hard to be 'hip' and 'cool' with trying to get the people of the internet involved in their reporting (I know this cause I watch the Daily Show, which I am one of those that feel it is less of a joke then your type of journalism) You don't 'know' anything, unless you went into the hotel rooms and joined in on their festivities. Where is your video evidence? It's sad that a reporter can just go, "Well I read that furries have sex", well yes they're human... they have sex just like any other human, yourself included... I think your wife and yourself do more then just have discussions too. Only I don't go and make such a despicable, tounge-in-cheek, 'observation' in front of a television audience of millions. I guess that's because I have more integrity then some so called journalists.
Though I probably underestimate your expertise, because you probably had sex with a fur while you were drunk... and not reporting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-UiJbPN4fM&NR=1) Look I can use the internets to get my news too... CNN? Who needs it.
Bleet the Mets:
One example of Many
There were several articles on this, last year it was the Rays and the year before that the Brewers. Well now the furs have actually shooken the cage of an actually 'important' team. Apparently the Mets were so 'disturbed' by the furries they couldn't sleep. Though I think the real reason they can't sleep at night is that they go around lying about being a baseball team. Which for those who read my previous post will see a little bit of that. When you read the articles above the response I posted probably makes more sense, and I really don't know how to put it better then that. Hey, Mr. Cooper, you think these people were doing more then just having discussions about bats and balls? I think so, I wouldn't doubt that there are people out there with sports fetishes, I thinks that's why I hear about it so much at work.
The irony of this is that while the sportsmen jocks are whining, all their whines did was draw peoples attention away from them. All the articles I have seen are formated kind of like this. "The Mets complained about furries making noises." And then the rest of the article was pretty much a free advertisement to the furries. I mean, we may have lost Mets fans, but to me that's more of a win then a loss.
There are sports reports out there who can see right though this stunt, and with some hilarious results.
This one kinda felt ironic to me because it shows that the furries have become more important to a sports segment then the Mets... you really know your team is terrible when... sorry they're not buying the furries made you suck you already established that history
Sad Panda
The Alan T. Panda incident did pop here and there. Luckily the furries have become slightly more sociably sensible and were clear in their rejection of that kind of behavior, maybe they can teach the Catholic church a thing or two about that eh? Eh?
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_632187.html
As you can tell, it was only a partial part of the article and all the articles seemed to treat it as such. They did not push on it, just had to set it forth because it was a recent event, which is reasonable.
Overall, I still think things are looking up. Despite the furry paranoia over the whole panda incident and its impact on the media, I think rational people realize that you're going to get sickos popping out of the wood work no matter where you are. Rational people realize no group is perfect, which is why something like the Internal Investigations Bureau exists. And I don't know about you, but the understanding of the rational are all I personally care about. |
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| Re: Freaked out Met |
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| 07:02pm 02/07/2009 |
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@Kevin Burkhardt: "Our hotel is overrun by these people with baseball bats, and they act like baseball players, yet they cannot play baseball. I have seen it all and I am freaked out. I just took a picture with someone who was dressed as a pitcher who allowed four home runs, one single and two doubles and a triple, in one inning." |
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| The Alphabet according to Google |
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| 05:30pm 20/06/2009 |
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A is for the HTML tag that links to other pages
B is for /b/tard (4chan)
C is for the just another failed bank (I mean the Citigroup)
D is for D Programming Language, but also RickRoll'D
E is for E! (Aka Gossip)
F is for Ford
G is for Gmail (of course)
H is for Hydrogen
I is for Apple (As in: iSee what you did there...)
J is for the letter J???? (So unloved)Also J Programming Language.
K is for Kellogg
L is for Latex. No... not that kind, I mean LaTeX... it's a nerd thing not a sex thing...
M is for the letter M???? (Unloved 2) Also Metre.
N is for Flash action game.
O is for Cirque de Soleil (aka the clowns more powerful then Oprah)
P is for new paragraph HTML tag
Q is for the letter Q??? (unloved 3) and the James Bond Gadget guy.
R is for a statistical computing project.
S is for Sprint/Nextel
T is for AT&T
U is for the letter U??? (Unloved 4) and the underline html tag
V is for V Magazine (more fashion magazines...)
W is for Film about George W Bush by Oliver Stone.
X is for Punk Band (Named X)
Y is for Yahoo! Mail
Z is for the letter Z??? (Unloved 5) and the Z notation. |
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| The Scarlet Letter |
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| 01:35am 17/06/2009 |
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Ironically I have been reminded of stories of my childhood when a recent live journal entry came to light. The events of Alan T. Panda have made the fandom more aware and cautious about those that are within the fandom. This is a positive thing, as furries are people, as much as some dislike to admit that. Not all people are good people. Not all furries are good furries.
However, the caution about other furs and the group mentality that absolutely everyone in a group will be reflected upon oneself will inevitably lead to a witch hunt to drive out anyone who could destroy you.
Take Rush Limbaugh for example, he's lately been labeling those that call themselves Republicans as democrats. Why? Because he has personified himself as the party, and suddenly anyone inside it reflects on him, so he drives everyone out. Similarly we each have personified ourselves in the fandom, and the moment we sense something we try to drive it out.
Unfortunately this mentality tends to be destructive. Though it is essential that we as a community be aware that criminals walk among us in the fursuits, it is important to not overreact.
http://community.livejournal.com/oregonfurs/31734.html
Case in point, a fur, probably in vigilante style went onto Pounced.org and probably searched for the word boy and instantly looked for more information on the 33 year old person. Of course he found a criminal record for child sodomy... so of course he called him out, pounced.org took his ad down and case closed.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. This charge was made 12 years ago, back in 1997. Yes, when the individual was 21. Which means the gap between him and the child was 5 years, not like Alan's 44 to 15. It's still illegal and wrong that he did that, and apparently he knows this. Like the book as the title the reason people know about this is because this crime gives you a scarlet letter. One that marks you as a shame of society, and after a good 12 years of wearing it, you get comfortable about taking on such a difficult part of your past. He understands that these are the consequences, to be put into the spotlight and judged for his past crimes, and he will be for the rest of his days. So much so that he had no trouble can making a new pounced account and tell the internet that they're a bunch of assumptive pricks. http://pounced.org/personals/viewad.php?hpad=18691
By the post's premise insaneroo's intention was not to protect children, but the fandom... which to me is somewhat distasteful. And later basically says. "Well something has to be done, when people ask me if being a pedo is part of the fandom I just can't sit on my hands.", you have to do something alright, ask that person if they've ever asked a Catholic if they were a pedophile, and if that's what being a Catholic is really all about. Because it is equivalent mentality to believe that one individual's actions are a reflection on the group. Hell, if one human being is a pedophile, that must mean all human beings are pedophiles. No Pedophiles are Pedophiles, Furries are Furries.
And while furries should do what they can to make sure the real pedos are brought to justice and weeded out, you must think of what weeding out entails. You don't dig up your lawn and destroy your side walk looking for the roots, you wait for them to pop out of the hole and yoink the sucker. Because as tempting as it is to deal with the problem at its roots before it comes up and puts a crack in your sidewalk, the one weed will do less damage then you dismantling your sidewalk to go on a witch hunt for root seeds.
In other words, using another story analogy. Papa Bear's method was too hard, Mama Bear's method was too soft. Maybe when dealing with those who get too close to Baby Bear it would be best to do it just right and find a happy medium. |
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| What Have I Done? |
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| 06:26pm 11/06/2009 |
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One Fox News reporter is probably in one of the most scary and enlightening positions right now... in a position where he's starting to see the beast they have created, the Pandora's box that was ripped open.
I don't watch the network, so if it weren't for the internet providing me a glimpse of this turn in the reporter.
It all started when we learned of torture.
And it continues as we learn of the emails he has recieved.
The poor guy, it's hard to come to the realization that you worked for people who made fiction fact, and got these guys to feel they have a voice. |
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| How you act, not who you are. |
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| 09:13pm 08/06/2009 |
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So recently a friend put in a journal entry of someone by the name of CigarSkunk. For those of you that don't know, I think I'd describe it as so. If 2 the Ranting Gryphon were the Howard Stern of the fandom, CigarSkunk would be the Glenn Beck. I personally don't know CS, but having read his works, something tells me I wouldn't.
Now, I'm not one to put off conservatives as bad people. As long as they make arguements with their side of reason, and don't give into irrationalities such as killing others over their beliefs and what not. I actually don't mind that they hold opinions that I don't and we can discuss them and such.
However, it is the arrogance that latches onto them that they can't see their own hand in front of their face is when it gets a little bad. Actually the same pertains to me and those on the extreme left. Both sides have what I can deem as 'preachy' people. Those who are smarter then everyone that doesn't have the same opinion they have, and see everyone else who has a different opinion as arrogant as they by default.
For example when talking of the fandom, he said they were trying to push him aside because 1) He's straight 2) He's conservative 3)He brings women to conventions 4) He smokes cigars.
Sorry, sir, but I assure you there is a very small chance that there is not another in the fandom that meets those 4 qualities. You're making assumptions about everyone in the fandom just because of those that wronged you, just as those that dislike conservative principals point out the wingbats of the group and assume they're all like that.
Saying that blacks will riot if Obama doesn't win, then marching and throwing tea into our rivers when he does win kinda speaks ironic tones. Saying "Look Alan T. Panda is proof we should go on a witch hunt for pedos in the fandom cause only after we get tough will they go away." Ignoring the fact that alan WORKED... IRL... with one of the toughest on pedo Senators out there... trust me they'll hide in the cracks, as they do in every group in society. I clearly say I never welcomed pedophiles to the fandom, but they'll still linger about. Just as Catholics and Republicans don't welcome pedos to their ranks, but they squeak in.
But I get away from myself, my point is not a political statement, however one of character. I don't hate you for those 4 facts, I hate that you act so smug about it. Just as you probably hate gays who dance around going "I'm gay! I'm gay!" (personally I find it annoying too) Yeah, we don't care... why should sexuality of any kind be flaunted. Who cares? Same thing with just about anything, sure you can talk to people and gain friends, even lovers, through your interests, however there is a line that difference crosses with all do respect, where intellect crosses with arrogance, and I personally try my damnedest not to cross that line, which is why when people tell me to knock it off 9 times out of 10 I do.
I have friends and family that are conservative. I know other furries that are conservative, I have friends and family who are liberal, and know furries that are liberal. And you know why I have friends with these people, because they don't wear their colors and whaa and get testy when others of different views come near. |
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| Joke on the WRAT |
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| 08:56pm 03/06/2009 |
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I listen to the WRAT in the mornings on the way to work and a random phrase came out of one of the radio personalities by the name of Gatz.
In a quiz show named "Are you smarter then Gatz?" The contestants are asked a questions, Gatz answers the question, and they can either agree or disagree with the answer and give the right one if they disagree. The first question Gatz answered incorrectly and the contestant agreed. After being told he was wrong, Gatz lobs the phrase. "You best put on a furry suit pal, cause you just got screwed."
Now tongue in cheek humor is no foreign element to the show, which is why I listen to it, but I really didn't expect that one. I could only laugh and wonder how long Gatz spent on the crazy internets. |
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| PR and the Fandom |
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| 07:19pm 31/05/2009 |
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Last year was my second annual AC and the Media which was filled with stories that were mostly positive, however, due to circumstances of a Chris Hansen nature, this year may give the media an even more 'objective' angle to spin their guts out. Many people worry about how the actions of Alan will effect the fandom, though in honesty it really shouldn't effect anything about what you should do. Unless you ARE a pedo, then you can kindly exit the fandom, that would be the first thing you can do to help.
In essence I believe all this huffing and puffing is just more proof of the people in the fandom thinking that people are idiots by default. That the majority outside themselves are incapable of understanding. But trust me, every rose has its thorns, every group has had its shames. Democrats and adultery (Clinton, Spitzer) Republicans and pedophiles (That Florida Senator, and Alan Panda worked for Republicans), Catholics and pedophiles.
The news media, only cares about the exceptions, not the rules, for the rules are boring, the rules are mundane. Exceptions mean ratings, and to some of them they prey for them to happen. They prey for a terrorist attack so that they can be there and 'woe', and get ratings. Of course I don't believe it goes that far, however in a way the people that report the news can be painted as such because of their interest in sexual perversions that they themselves are sexual perverts. Everyone with a brain knows that isn't fair to them, and everyone with a brain knows it isn't fair to us to do the same. So my question to the fandom is why do we care about the brainless?
However, if I am wrong, and people do things like go so far as to protest the AC claiming them to be a NAMBLA convention, it is easy to counter this by attacking it at its very roots. In other words, get ready to put on your suits and protest with them. Of course your messages won't be anti-furry, but things like 'Pedos out of the Fandom." or things of that nature. Do things like this, heck maybe if the stigma goes so far we should start to make donations to causes against Pedophiles such as the Child Molestations Research & Prevention Institute.
People have been saying we need a PR director, I don't think that's necessary, just some common sense. |
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