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[WillowLuman]

You can't make this stuff up.

It's probably pretty shitty that someone's in trouble about details of their personal life being leaked, but due to the nature of the story I can't help but laugh.

[Derpy Dev]

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I read the title, and it was mildly humourous. Then I read the subtitle and I cracked up.

This was priceless xD

You can't make this stuff up.

It's probably pretty shitty that someone's in trouble about details of their personal life being leaked, but due to the nature of the story I can't help but laugh.

I really don't know what to say about that. So many of the things I can say are probably better for the Ameripol thread.

[Rolan7]

Yeaaah.  If he was loudly against "deviancy" and for "traditional families" and all that, it'd be funnier I think.  Which happens pretty often, heh.

[Felissan]

Maybe I should lower my expectations for climactic final rounds.

[Loud Whispers]

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[JimboM12]

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Dang it, this made me laugh cuz its true, memes will assimilate us all.

[Reelya]

You can't make this stuff up.

It's probably pretty shitty that someone's in trouble about details of their personal life being leaked, but due to the nature of the story I can't help but laugh.

I think the moral panic about furries is pretty ridiculous, if you read that article the only details of furry life you know exists is fur-sex bonking. Nothing about the fan scene or conventions etc. If you think about it rationally, people will end up bonking dressed as anything and they're probably not any more likely to do it dressed as animals as anything else. Society and the media just focuses on any group that's "weird" then looks for freaks, but if you troll through any social group you're going to find perverts eventually. It's just bad reporting. Think about those conservative congressmen who get caught having gay sex in toilets. If that was the first thing you mentioned any time the topic of conservative congressmen came up in a news article, of course it's going to unfairly taint how people view that demographic.

So yeah of course, any politician with even a vague connection to the fandom is going to get tarred with that no matter how ridiculous it is.

[Derpy Dev]

You can't make this stuff up.

It's probably pretty shitty that someone's in trouble about details of their personal life being leaked, but due to the nature of the story I can't help but laugh.

I think the moral panic about furries is pretty ridiculous, if you read that article the only details of furry life you know exists is fur-sex bonking. Nothing about the fan scene or conventions etc. If you think about it rationally, people will end up bonking dressed as anything and they're probably not any more likely to do it dressed as animals as anything else. Society and the media just focuses on any group that's "weird" then looks for freaks, but if you troll through any social group you're going to find perverts eventually. It's just bad reporting. Think about those conservative congressmen who get caught having gay sex in toilets. If that was the first thing you mentioned any time the topic of conservative congressmen came up in a news article, of course it's going to unfairly taint how people view that demographic.

So yeah of course, any politician with even a vague connection to the fandom is going to get tarred with that no matter how ridiculous it is.

And you just summed up the entire problem with Rule 34. The assumptions people make about an entire fanbase based on the fact that one section of it likes porn is why this kind of issue is a tricky area.

[Reelya]

If you look at wikipedia on furry fandom it mentions a reporter who when to a furry convention expecting, i guess, a cross between a gay pride parade an a full-blown orgy / rave party, then was shocked. Shocked by how normal and boring the convetion was. That someone in the media can have such a distorted view of reality hits home on just how bullshit the media is on not just furries, but all the different subculture/fandoms.

So it's not actually good to buy into that even if you don't like furries. You're buying into the same media that says if you like Animal Crossing you're a pedophile, or that people only play Mass Effect because it's porn. That's the level of disconnect from reality we're talking about. And if they haven't come for your fandom yet, well there's always slow news days to come.

Also, there was a CSI episode about furries. Once you have a CSI episode about how freakish your scene is, you 100% know it's bullshit. I'm just waiting for the Dwarf Boom and the inevitable news articles about DF players roleplaying Dwarf Sex.

[JimboM12]

"Have you heard of those dwarf fortess people?"

"Those deviants!"

Actually, considering we once had he who must not be named merpeople breeding programs or that one fiasco about elves and dwarves falling in love they may have a point.

[Tawa]

inevitable news articles about DF players roleplaying Dwarf Sex.

*I put on my sock and rope reed cap*

[hector13]

I think there's an unwritten rule not to name that particular dwarf, byraway.

[Rolan7]

You know what, no, I'm not even going to tease about this.  It really is better forgotten.  It's literally as gross as I can imagine.

[JimboM12]

I think there's an unwritten rule not to name that particular dwarf, byraway.

How i forget.....how i want to forget. *stares into the distance*

[Derpy Dev]

...I'm gonna regret asking this, aren't I?

I'm still pretty new to this forum all things considered, so who is 'he who must not be named'?