Fandom misconceptions

What's the most inane, ridiculous or sickening thing you've heard someone say about us furries?

I'll get the ball rolling: Apparently, we like to -Yiff!- animals.

The animal costume thing, but to an extreme that we go to conventions just for that kind of thing to do it in front of everyone.

The gay part is new though.

It makes me wonder... What was the misconception CSI gave us?

Tygron wrote:

Envy661 wrote:It makes me wonder... What was the misconception CSI gave us?

The thing about the CSI episode though is that it's in some levels all true.

But they portray it as the norm, hence the backlash.

That being a furry means being a gay sex obsessed perv who enjoys -Yiffing!- animals more than anything else. The kid who said it is also a super-religious homophobe, though. As for stereotypes being portrayed as the norm, thats just how the media works. They want the worst of the worst, the sensational, and anything that immediately catches attention, so they can keep their viewers/readers. I don't really blame the media for what they do too much, if they reported 100% true fact, they'd probably have no viewers, but what CSI did was... just wrong. They had the opprotunity to do research, and if they couldn't find a way to show that that isn't the norm, they didn't need to do it. I've talked to some avid fans of the series, and they thought the episode was just bizzare, rather than "oh wow, I didn't know that" entertaining. And thus ends my rant on the subject.

Heh, you'd be surprised just how much people believe CSI. They know it's fiction, but I know people who've tried to make their own diamonds because of that show. Many people believe all the forensics and science and such is ABSOLUTELY TRUE. Because it's TV, and TV never lies.

Tygron wrote:Well as said, furries were never mentioned in the episode only heavily implied.

The 'convention' the show uses is called PAFCon, which stands for "Plushies And Furries Convention". So yeah, it's mentioned.

... Why was there never an uproar from the furry community petitioning this?

To be honest, I absolutely loved that episode

Hell, Im the kid who turns up to school on a non-uniform day with a rabbit ear hat, and wanders around town with a bunch of other furfags on occasion

I really don't care how other people see the fandom, if they are able to see past the yiff and the homoeroticisms and just say "Hey, I'm not into that stuff, but you are and that's cool." then I'm impressed... Sure has no one here listened to furcast? It's a pretty Pawsome show (Although yo be honest I kind if stopped listening once it got really popular, as it lost the closeness it had at the beginning, but it's still Pawsome )

If you look up OMG! With peaches geldoff furries on YouTube, you get a pretty interesting interview with some furs from down south Ireland, although a quite drunken Dom Joly (Trigger Happy TV) kind of trolls the group- still made me laugh though =D

To hell what people think, so long as yo can have a good time yourself, that's all that matters, mm? ^^