Musing on Furry and the Media: News Media is not you Friend.

Posted on May 3, 2012 by actonrf

March has been the usual bad news month for furries.  It started with The Dependent Magazine piece on Vancoufur answering the age old stereotypical over generalized  question:

“1. They are a community who enjoy dressing up as, acting like, and celebrating anthropomorphized animals (read: animals with human characteristics).

2. It may also be a sex thing.”

Next came Adult Swim’s “Check it Out” where the much misinformed main host came out with, again usual stereotypical   “anatomically incorrect fursuit” . Finally  we have a from  New Zealand   comes “Fur fetishists ‘just nature lovers ‘”  a fine example of press bias I have seen sine the Bush 2004 elections and miss-coverage of the tea party.

What one need to know the articles I listed above are just a sampling what is out there and should be an example what wrong with the media.  There are a few areas of observation I would like to make, first how the media reports the story and furries weakness in dealing with the media and what can we do.

A lot what I have to say come from my own experiences as somebody who is an orthodox Christian, Pro Life, former Fundamentalist now reformed Christian and political volunteer. I see similar methods the reporter employs when reporting on furries to many political groups and causes I supported.  It was my study media bias in reporting of furries that eventually drawn me into the fandom.

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Could Plushies become Thief Magnet

Posted on March 19, 2012 by actonrf

Today at the church parking my truck was broken into for the second time in three months. Both time I had one of my giant Plushies in my truck. I wonder if my Plushies are inviting targets to car prowlers. The first time around Christmas, they popped the driver side lock; the thieves did not take anything, they were looking for Christmas presents and saw my big plush.  On Sunday, while my truck was parked at the church. The prowlers smashed the driver’s side window and stole my stereo and my giant hello kitty and other hello kitty Plushies.

Unfortunately   this means I going have stop taking my giant Plushies on ride along unless I have to keep them on my presence all the time. I am going to miss my giant Hell Kitty Plush. Sadly this is the world we live in too many idiots spoiling my fun.

The big lesson is you all might want to think about what Plushies one keeps in your vehicle and take other precautions. Less ones auto becomes inviting target to a car prowler.

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Convention planning 2012

Posted on February 21, 2012 by actonrf

With the Colonoscopy completed and clear; nothing more than my paranoia at fault. It time to plan and announce my 2012 schedule and throw a request of you all.
This year I will have to keep it local, my next convention will be Wonder Northwest , a multi genre geek convention in the vein of comic cons in March, I will also be attending Kumoicon or local anime convention and Orycon. I am a bit leery of Orycon, if programming is anything like last year, as far I am concern the Old guard can keep their convention. I will just take my business elsewhere or we can start a real fan based science fiction convention. I will problem do a one day pass for Gear Con a steam punk con in September.
Not the wild card is if I can get my contract extended to the end of the year. I could possibly add in Rainfurrest. If I go I would like do a Christian Furry panel and perhaps if I feel comfortable I throw in a Hello Kitty panel to As for panels I plan to do Otaku over 25 a panel for older anime fans and I will also try to furry in anime panel at Kumoricon.
Now here were you can help If you have any ideas or suggestions of furry related anime please do leave a comment. Right now The are to goals; introduce furry to the anime fandom, meet and greet for furries at Kumorricn. I have talked to a few fellow furs there is an interest in the panel.

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1st Portland Fursuit Romp 4 Feb 2012

Posted on February 5, 2012 by actonrf
Young boy trying figure out furries

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Today was a perfect day for a Fursuit walk, not a cloud in the sky even though it was cold and windy. The day started around 12:pm meeting Saki The Cat , a fur I first met the Kumoricon boards. … Continue reading →

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Furry Bronies and Kitty Fans – Oh My II

Posted on January 21, 2012 by actonrf

For a while the media of various forms of atrocity tourisms shows Like my Strange Addiction have contacted furries for their sows. Recently they turned their eyes towards Bronies and now Hello Kitty Fans. I hope my warnings were heeded about TLC.

Not all media is bad, recently while warning about a new documentary on Hello Kitty fans, they contacted me. The person was part of the large Hello Kitty board and it seem s They got Sanrio’s blessing for the project and the company no dinky operation. Being comfortable this is legit, we traded email about the project and me. I had to clear up some misconception about furries we all do not have costumes are a fetish. The issue of furries came up because that how I became a Sanrio fan is Hello Kitty and her friends are anthropomorphic and 100% innocent. I filled out a questionnaire and will see how things progress.

Of course the sex question comes up, which raises question me how to discus this with friends and the media. All one has to do is go on FA without filters. The way I look at and wrote, one tweak doesn’t define a whole fandom. Bronies , Hello Kitty Fans and Furrsy are too big and diverse of a community to allow one tweak to define us all.
While we are on the subject, Finally about furries on Taboo. If anything this shows the Old Uncle Kage strategy of telling furries to avoid and the media trying to paternalisticly control the situation will not work. Even with Athrocon it has a limited power to control the media, the media moved somewhere else to get their story. Now with a huge fandom of hundreds of thousands of furs there no way Kage can be in all places. Then there the law of averages; with large population of furries, the media will find that one tweak. The best thing furries can do is lean how the media acts and how to get their side of the story out.

Ps. A lot of my views on the media has come form years of observation while I was a Fundaments Christian, Pro Life and sympathetic to Religious Conservative Causes from 1992 to 1998 and volunteering for Republican Candidates, petition drives and precinct person form 2004 to 2010. It was my study after CSI and other stories, noting the bias an similar treatment to conservatives that brought me into the fandom.

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