Men may travel light, but some pack teddy bears
”A recent study by British hotel chain Travelodge has found that 25 percent of men take teddy bears on the road with them when they travel for business. These men report that their stuffed animals remind them of home and the significant others they have to leave behind. “
The study been going on for a while, I first heard about it in 2007.
An e-maile is going around the fandom:
My name is Josh and I’m a producer in New York working on a tv documentary about furries and the furry fandom. And since everybody asks, no I’m not a bot, and yes I am a real person (you can google my name). I had a chance to check out your AWESOME video and I’d like to know if you still keep in touch with the fursuiters. I’m trying to find some suiters who would be willing to participate in the doc we’re producing.
I’m really looking forward to hearing from you. Many thanks in advance.
You can check the rest of conversation here. Mr. Haygood has tires to MTV and it looks like another plushies furries hack job. This guy had been thown out of FA. Mr. Haygood I know the media, the fandom has been burnt once by MTV twisting the fandom into a sick fetish; not this time John not this time.
The opinions expressed here are the views of the writer (Action) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the furry community nor posting of my opinion does not in any way enter a convenient relationship with the furry community.
In other words do lay this “why you are causing drama in the furry community” line on me. I am not you and you are not me. In addition, I never recalled joining your idea of community and have to sway over my life. Finally, you do not have to read what I am posting below the cut.
I been listening in on the All Fur Fun Forums, The owner has been posting letters from (Freak ) Reality show produces who want to “Interview” furries.
“Hello,
My name is Michele Spinak and I work on a program you may be familiar with that airs on Discovery Health Channel called I’m Pregnant and…
The show airs Tuesday nights at 9:30pm. Four out of our six episodes have aired. They have been very successful so we have been asked to gear up for a second season.
We are doing our initial outreach for the second season and one topic we are looking to include is I’m Pregnant and…a Furry. I was hoping to speak with someone in greater detail about the program and the outreach I am doing. Please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Michele Spinak”
Some had don some research and found
The show sounds like another shock the audience reality shows.
If that not enough here another letter:
“I am also casting for another program for Discovery Health Channel called Strange Sex. We were looking to do a segment on Furries for that program as well. I know only some Furries are into the sexual aspect of it all. I was wondering if you could suggest people for me to reach out to about the program. We are just simply trying to tell the story of what it is because I think a lot of people have different conceptions about what being a furry really is.”
What in hell Mr. Spinak thinks we are, some freak show for his business aspirations.
To me he just another Hollywood schlock want to make a buck by pedaling trash TV,
It looks like Foxmas is being put on hold until they find a new venue’ hopefully the scrap heap or somewhere in Las Vegas. I guess I should had spoken out earlier but after years of preaching about sins during my fundamentalist days, I realize spouting about sins only waste energy, doesn’t change things, and is not the Gospel. So, when Frozen Oasis revealed about their new mini con Foxmas I was happy until realize it was going to be an 18+ event. Even more discomfiting was the warning on the web site not NSFW. A bad omen especially when we are trying to clean up the image of the fandom.
Frozen Oasis is a gray area in the fandom. Most furry cons want very (officially) little to do with them. Frankly, it better they go away. The fandom doesn’t need the potential for more bad media. A +18 party is not what we need.
I know I am a bit late I was down with the flu all last week.
With all the noise over the Chewfox and TomKat appearance on Tyra Banks, people missed that there were three beds on stage and three couples only one of them was a furry couple. Even from a Christian Conservative standpoint, Chewfox and TomKat are the only normal one on the show. We had one couple engaging in adultery, another in a polygamous relationship leaving the furry in a monogamous (one-man one-woman) relationship. As far as sex goes, what they do in their own bedroom is there own thing including doing it in fursuit; the marriage bed is not defiled as long it is consensual between husband and wife.
The problem I have is Chewfox going on the daytime TV show and allowing the fandom and monogamous marriage to be dragged through the mud and twisted by Tyra into a sexual fetish. Shows like Jerry Springer and Tyra Banks are museums of modern depravity. The show parade any form of depravity demanding to be accepted or to show shock, and amuse the audience in the way of the carnival freak shows in the past.
What Chewfox and Tom did on the Tyra Banks’ show is infamous and damming as FoxWolfie Galen’s interview with Vanity Fair. It is far worst, I am a lost for word, the selfishness of her willing to sell out the fandom for thirty pieces of fame silver.
It sad we in the fandom we have or Galens and Chewfoxs, exhibitionist who willing to sellout the fandom for 15 seconds of fame.
Chewfox is only a representative, and a poor one, of her self and not that of furry Fandom.
Proof for all to see of CNN bias.
Getting wrong and overt bias are hallmarks CNN aka Clinton News Network aka Conservatives Need Not to apply. Let start with “Furry Fest”, there no such convention; can not a multi billion dollar media company find even an intern to fact check the story. The convention name is Anthrocon not Furry Fest. Secondly only 25% are in fursuit that is costumes for the uninformed. Finally the sex is no more present that any comic, gamer, anime, science fiction, Star Trek Convention. If furry conventions are overt Adult entertainment convention then why does the city of Pittsburg welcome the fandom each year, any rational city and hotel outside Las Vegas would have noting to do with Anthrocon if it was a porn and fetish con. There are a wide range of interest that attends Anthrocon including families with children and bible believing Evangelical and Catholic Christian Furs.
Still I do not have hope that CNN will get it right; proving there are a few group CNN will not run a creditable unbiased story on: Christian Conservatives, Republicans, Conservative Talk Radio and Furries.
There been a lot of chatter over Met stop in Pittsburgh. The some how Athrocon had kept up the Mets making them tired before the game, well if it bad why nobody call in a complaint. The Dorsai Irregulars would shut things down in a heartbeat. SNY filed announce Kevin Burkhardt got his picture with Crusader Cat. One of the funniest comments was “can he hit consistently? if so ill take him” showing met fans disenchantment with the team. Even with Anthrocon, the Mets mange to squeak out a victory. Perhaps Crusader Cat, who is a devout Christian, offered a prayer for divine intervention.
I have one theory it has to do Pittsburgh is engaging in physiological warfare by having the opposing team stay at the Westin during Anthrocon.
It finally happened; a pedophile baby fur fetishist in the fandom finally gets caught for soliciting a 15 year old.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09150/973907-455.stm
First of all not all furries are sexual deviants, we do have a small minority and they have a knack in getting all the attention. The dark secret of the fandom is our non judgmental attitude and moral relativism that has permeated society. The problem is when the fandom tolerates every fetish that come along without question or limits eventually somebody will push the envelope until we have a pedophile baby fur soliciting sex from a minor. Once the fandom tolerated the Adult Baby Diaper Lover community, eventually one person took a sign to push the fandom envelope to pedophilia.
It is not that fetishism in furry fandom happened in a vacuum, but reflects our modern moral relativistic culture in America. It more about what your average teen and twenty something brings in to fandom from the classroom or MTV rather than being something caused by the fandom. It my hope that this incident and resulting anal exam of the fandom opens some eyes and realize we can not be open to every fetish less we drag down the fandom.
PS Alan, don’t drop the soap.
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