Burned Fur - My what an ugly face you have
Brian McGroarty
about where Furrydom was going. It had started off on their railing on an
alleged pedophile who had made himself pet to an adolescent tramp. I saw a
log of the whole event at http://www.radiks.net/~spencer/whitestripe.html
and just kind of went - "Gah. Strike up another win for Dragonoix."
We chatted this up a bit, and eventually Burned Fur came up. Now, I've been
wanting to know exactly what Burned Fur is, and what it stands for for some
time now. For many, the first exposure to Burned Fur they had was when the
allegations were running hot and strong that Burned Fur was responsible for
the pornography crackdown at Confurence this year. Somebody had called the
regional alcohol bureau and indicated that pornography would be present at
the event, which was in a hotel where alcohol was being served, which
apparently violates a local ordinance.
From the group, I finally got a pointer to what seems to be an authoritative
page on Burned Fur, this at http://members.tripod.com/~burnedfur. After
reviewing the group's manifesto, the mission statement, and many of the
messages in which the group is discussed, I'm genuinely scared. The group
claims over and over not to be a hate group. And yet, at the same time,
there seems to be little planning or structure to the movement. About all
that holds the group together is a common dislike for many aspects of the
fandom. And the degree or extent of this, or the aims of the group, are
terribly unclear.
The group talks about wanting to "throw a monkey wrench into the fandom."
The exact meaning of this is unclear. The group focuses against "acts such
as bestiality, plushophilia, fursuit sex and other things seen as 'wrong' by
non-fandom individuals." This could easily be construed to include
homosexuality, BDSM play, the collection of pornography, cybersex, wearing
tails, wearing ears, attending conventions, collecting comics, meeting
people over the internet, role play, any number of other things. Where is
the line drawn? What exactly is this monkey wrench that the group hopes to
throw, and what's the target?
The Ku Klux Klan focuses on trying to abstract Negroes from our society. The
group is similarly unfocussed - some members hope to kill Negroes, some hope
to export them, some want to reinstate slavery. Some believe Indians and
Hispanics are included. Some even don't like members of non-Protestant
religions. There isn't a forward goal, and the Klan's official line is that
they want to preserve white heritage, and that they don't condone acts
against other races. The only thing that formally ties the group together is
a dislike, and the wish that the group should grow. This is the definition
of a hate group, and until Burned Fur learns to define itself better, this
is what Burned Fur is as well.
This is the feedback I left on the Burned Fur site:
"Burned Fur" is a terrible name for this movement. The name and the angry
in-your-face logos share the same motif as many hate groups. Hell, the
silhouette of the fur with the hammer looks pretty much like some of the
Stalin era communist government propaganda. That's certainly the wrong first
impression to make.
What I see of your goals doesn't jibe with your image. I understand the
group is largely (entirely?) motivated by the indignation of its members.
But the feelings motivating you should not be confused with the goal. This
image is the WRONG recruiting tool, as anger and hatred are the worst
possible images to associate with your "distilled fandom."
Okay. This points to calling for established goals. Where ARE you going? How
far have you gotten? If you can't actively quantify the movement's success,
it's probably because you don't have a destination in mind. Without that,
you're nothing but a little social clique running on feelings and individual
interpretations.
Who are you trying to reach? What is the base message for each group you
want to reach? How are you reaching these groups?
What are you trying to eliminate? Where are you trying to eliminate it
from - fandom or just 'burned fur approved' fandom?
What are you trying to create? What specifically are you encouraging? By
what means?
Again - there is NO room for vagary in enumerating the movement's goals in
any of the above areas.
Who are your leaders - who speaks for you? Like it or not, you're not going
to get far without officers. You need people capable of orchestrating the
group when it needs to be called to action. You need definitive approval or
rejection for actions such as the one which lead to the CF fiasco. Whether
or not it was BF that did this has apparently NOT been established and it
isn't important to my point, which is that you should have had someone who
could say "we did/did not condone this action." And you need a mature and
amicable face for the group when dealing with media and Furrydom PR.
Right now, everyone's seeing a crowd with torches. Change the name. Define
your image and your goals. Tell us you're leading us to a nicer future and
give us a reason to believe it.
For now, I'm a furry, not a burned fur.
J.M.L.
everywhere. Actually, that was the spirit behind Godwin's law, since
supposed attrocities real or imagined by most folks on the net (and
especially in this case) come absolutely nowhere close! So you can't
enjoy dirty pics of funny animals anymore. Boo-hoo. Here's a quarter.
Call someone who gives a damn.
Frankly I kind of enjoyed myself this time around. CF10 was a lot more
tame. It needed more variety though. I'm certainly willing to give it a
chance.
--
-- "Happiness is a deaf wolf".
http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~hutch/hal/HAL/Talk.phtml
Farlo
> Right now, everyone's seeing a crowd with torches. Change the name.
Define
> your image and your goals. Tell us you're leading us to a nicer future
and
> give us a reason to believe it.
>
> For now, I'm a furry, not a burned fur.
Brian touches on many of the issues that I have with the Burned Fur
movement.
Farlo
Urban Fey Dragon
http://www.dejanews.com/~furculture
Brian McGroarty
problem is here. You missed the point entirely - please reread the original
posting.
I don't give a damn if I can buy porn at CF or if I have to find it online
and via mail order. I do however give a damn as to whether I or my friends
are going to be the next ones stepped on by BF, or by people who believe
they're acting in the vaguely defined spirit of BF.
If there's to be a growing group with the goal of eliminating things from
the fandom, I want those things enumerated now. If the group has the goal of
removing or disowning things, I WANT THESE THINGS LISTED UP FRONT. And I
want leadership and accountability in the group aiming to do this so the
group is held in check in case it ever starts reaching too far. Otherwise we
see splinter factions acting on their own even when their opinion dissents
from the movement as a whole.
Otherwise, I'm going after dragons and large furs on the MUCKs, as I don't
like those. And I'm going after furs who lean against trees and sigh. And
I'm going after furs with bad grammar. And I'm going after people who play
humans and faeries. And I'm going after quadrupeds played as plantigrades
rather than digitigrades. I'll go after MUCKers with 3 line+ wixxxes. I'll
go after furs who page out of the blue. I'll go after anything that doesn't
fit MY idea of furrydom, and I'll call myself a Burned Fur.
And I won't tell you what I mean by "go after" either. Burned Fur doesn't.
The mission statement just says "IT IS PROPOSED THAT WE SHALL institute
ourselves as a monkey wrench in the gears of mainstream fandom" and makes
vague comments about how "WE STRONGLY DISCOURAGE." Maybe I'm just speaking
out against individual furs. Maybe I'm contacting their family or their
employer if they connect from work. Maybe I'm placing their RL name on a
public list. Maybe I'm interfering with their ability to connect to their
news or e-mail.
There's certainly a LOT left open to individual interpretation right now.
Snowfox
http://www.mcs.net/~snowfox
J.M.L. <coy...@brionne.cyberverse.com> wrote in message
news:92328375...@rodelo.cyberverse.com...
Reto Roth
J.M.L. schrieb:
> Analogizing BF to the KKK is an insult to the truely oppresed
> everywhere. Actually, that was the spirit behind Godwin's law, since
> supposed attrocities real or imagined by most folks on the net (and
> especially in this case) come absolutely nowhere close! So you can't
> enjoy dirty pics of funny animals anymore. Boo-hoo. Here's a quarter.
> Call someone who gives a damn.
Doesn´t it cost 35c??
Farlo
>J.M.L. schrieb:
> Boo-hoo. Here's a quarter.
>> Call someone who gives a damn.
>
>Doesn´t it cost 35c??
Yes. Like many BFs, he is short some cents.
(A pun! Yes, indeedy!)
Mark Atwood
> Analogizing BF to the KKK is an insult to the truely oppresed
> everywhere.
I don't know, in the purely online arena the analogy holds well, in
that the BF site has the same graphic design, layout, and incoherert
"we dont like this" content as a "real" hate site.
A pale echo, but real anyway.
--
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m...@pobox.com | you take the bait, and it snaps shut in its deathgrip.
| -- Rich Grise <rich...@entheosengineering.com>
J.M.L.
: Analogizing BF to the KKK is a tool for illustrating exactly what the
: problem is here. You missed the point entirely - please reread the original
: posting.
Well whatever you say. I suppose it is in some broad general sense.
You're making a mountain out of molehill though. That's rather paranoid.
: I don't give a damn if I can buy porn at CF or if I have to find it online
: and via mail order. I do however give a damn as to whether I or my friends
: are going to be the next ones stepped on by BF, or by people who believe
: they're acting in the vaguely defined spirit of BF.
So let me try to understand here. Since a few folks all bent out of
shape over the way things have been going go about with their guerillia
tactics to try and turn everything into as tither, then they obviously
must be speaking for the entire group?
I want to be clear that that's what I'm hearing. The reason is that I
know a lot of you who like read, write and lurk here certainly don't think
that way about yourselves. If that's what you're thinking here then
that's rather hypocritical.
: If there's to be a growing group with the goal of eliminating things from
: the fandom, I want those things enumerated now. If the group has the goal of
: removing or disowning things, I WANT THESE THINGS LISTED UP FRONT. And I
: want leadership and accountability in the group aiming to do this so the
: group is held in check in case it ever starts reaching too far. Otherwise we
: see splinter factions acting on their own even when their opinion dissents
: from the movement as a whole.
Beats me what other people want. I'd just be happy if people would
stop violating copyright laws and actually learn how to draw for a change.
The rest is just nitpicking.
: Otherwise, I'm going after dragons and large furs on the MUCKs, as I don't
: like those. And I'm going after furs who lean against trees and sigh. And
: I'm going after furs with bad grammar. And I'm going after people who play
: humans and faeries. And I'm going after quadrupeds played as plantigrades
: rather than digitigrades. I'll go after MUCKers with 3 line+ wixxxes. I'll
: go after furs who page out of the blue. I'll go after anything that doesn't
: fit MY idea of furrydom, and I'll call myself a Burned Fur.
Right. A stereotypical Burned Fur, as opposed to a stereotypical Fur,
who goes around pretending they're a dragon while extolling the virtues of
it being their totem animal. Or who go about hugging everything in sight
and can't stand anything politically incorrect, with regards to
themselves, that is. Or who spend a great deal of time and energy
creating a perfect character to role play with, only to use it as a sex
toy three weeks later. Who can't stand the mere fact that there are
people out there who think they're taking themselves way too seriously and
ought to chill out perhaps, but won't because that doesn't fit into THEIR
idea of furrydom.
There, do you feel better now? We can continue spewing drivel all week
like this, unless you actually want to talk in a more constructive manner.
: And I won't tell you what I mean by "go after" either. Burned Fur doesn't.
: The mission statement just says "IT IS PROPOSED THAT WE SHALL institute
: ourselves as a monkey wrench in the gears of mainstream fandom" and makes
: vague comments about how "WE STRONGLY DISCOURAGE." Maybe I'm just speaking
: out against individual furs. Maybe I'm contacting their family or their
: employer if they connect from work. Maybe I'm placing their RL name on a
: public list. Maybe I'm interfering with their ability to connect to their
: news or e-mail.
A bunch of people get fed up with all this silliness and decide to say
what's on their mind, and what's the first thing you do? Cry foul. I'm
sure glad everyone here's so open minded that they actually read before
they jump to conclusions. Thank God for that. Who knows how many flame
wars were averted?
The ones doing the subversive things are doing it on their own, even if
you don't believe that. Yes, I'm sorry to shock you like this, but those
so-called Burned Furs aren't some think-alike collective. As much as
you'd like to dehumanize them until they're a pack of vicious monsters.
Yes, some of them have done the exact same thing to you in return. Well,
they say you're all pedophiles or losers or wankers or wannabes. Of
course, that's not true, right? Right? So then, your first analogy of
'hate group' is flawed not only in magnitude, but also in direction. It's
more like a holy war, if you want to keep that same pompous magnitude,
that is. Don't tell me you're all innocent little lambs who've never
tried to hack into BF sites in retaliation, or come here in support of you
all while remaining anonymous, spewing out bile against 'those bad evil
meanies!'. Or, that's a different story, right? That's something else
again.
: There's certainly a LOT left open to individual interpretation right now.
Maybe they're planning on killing your firstborn male children. I'd
watch out if I were you.
J.M.L.
: coy...@brionne.cyberverse.com (J.M.L.) writes:
: > Analogizing BF to the KKK is an insult to the truely oppresed
: > everywhere.
: I don't know, in the purely online arena the analogy holds well, in
: that the BF site has the same graphic design, layout, and incoherert
: "we dont like this" content as a "real" hate site.
: A pale echo, but real anyway.
I'm often amazed at the sheer stupidity on both sides of this issue.
Furs can't laugh at themselves for some reason, and lack any sort of sense
of humor. Don't get me wrong, some of them are real smart asses, but only
to supposed outsiders. Burned Furs can sure ramble on and on and on ad
nauseum about what they don't like but then they don't get off their asses
and actually try to accomplish any real change. It's bloody annoying.
If you think what they're doing is hate then you've never experienced
real hate, I'd say.
Lemu...@hotmail.com
"Brian McGroarty" <br...@pobox.com> wrote:
{big a'snippins}
> We chatted this up a bit, and eventually Burned Fur came up. Now, I've been
> wanting to know exactly what Burned Fur is, and what it stands for for some
> time now. For many, the first exposure to Burned Fur they had was when the
> allegations were running hot and strong that Burned Fur was responsible for
> the pornography crackdown at Confurence this year.
Hot & strong like my men & my coffee? Hmmm. This Constant Reader missed out
on that. As I recall, only a couple folks were under that
impression...hee...one of whom would be Jurann, King of the Freezing Furs,
who I don't even recall having seen post here. If *that's* where you're
getting your information, you'd do best to look somewhere less nutty.
> Somebody had called the
> regional alcohol bureau and indicated that pornography would be present at
> the event, which was in a hotel where alcohol was being served, which
> apparently violates a local ordinance.
Funny, I heard that someone filled out a response form on the hotel's
website, making references not only to pornography, but also to pedophilia,
bestiality, & Furnation, & that upon looking further, the hotel determined
that the outright sale of pornography would be at odds with the stipulations
in their resort license. Feel free to correct me if I am in error. I know
someone will.
> From the group, I finally got a pointer to what seems to be an authoritative
> page on Burned Fur, this at http://members.tripod.com/~burnedfur. After
> reviewing the group's manifesto, the mission statement, and many of the
> messages in which the group is discussed, I'm genuinely scared.
Scared? Of what?
> The group
> claims over and over not to be a hate group. And yet, at the same time,
> there seems to be little planning or structure to the movement. About all
> that holds the group together is a common dislike for many aspects of the
> fandom. And the degree or extent of this, or the aims of the group, are
> terribly unclear.
Only those "aspects" of the fandom that are not relevant to anthropomorphics.
& "hate"? No. I do not hate. I have better things to do with my emotional
investments than get all het up over furry, ferchrissakes.
> The group talks about wanting to "throw a monkey wrench into the fandom."
> The exact meaning of this is unclear. The group focuses against "acts such
> as bestiality, plushophilia, fursuit sex and other things seen as 'wrong' by
> non-fandom individuals." This could easily be construed to include
> homosexuality, BDSM play, the collection of pornography, cybersex, wearing
> tails, wearing ears, attending conventions, collecting comics, meeting
> people over the internet, role play, any number of other things. Where is
> the line drawn? What exactly is this monkey wrench that the group hopes to
> throw, and what's the target?
...Are you sure you did your reading before you did your writing? I don't
think you did. These other issues to which you allude have been addressed
before, many times. "easily be construed" seems like at best gross ignorance
& paranoia & at worst, trolling. The short version is, do what you want. But
don't attribute what you're doing (bestiality, plushophilia, fursuit sex) to
furry fandom.
> The Ku Klux Klan focuses on trying to abstract Negroes from our society. The
> group is similarly unfocussed - some members hope to kill Negroes, some hope
> to export them, some want to reinstate slavery.
Someone catch me up, please. I was under the impression that "Negroes"
predates "colored folks" which predates "black folks" which predates "african
americans". Maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, this is a ridiculous comparison you're
making. Is Miss Manners also secretly a serial killer who targets the
socially inept?
{snip}
> This is the feedback I left on the Burned Fur site:
It's so nice you said it twice! I'll just say it once. (until the next goober
comes along, at least).
> "Burned Fur" is a terrible name for this movement.
Furry is a terrible name for a fandom. Why would I want to call myself a
furry *anything*? It implies hirsute things. I am not hirsute. I have no
desire to be so. Hairy women do not tend to conform to my personal standard
of beauty. Your mileage may vary.
> The name and the angry
> in-your-face logos share the same motif as many hate groups. Hell, the
> silhouette of the fur with the hammer looks pretty much like some of the
> Stalin era communist government propaganda. That's certainly the wrong first
> impression to make.
That there rap music sounds so damn ugly, don't it? Why do they sound so
angry? Don't they know more people would listen to em if they played happy
music like them there Spice Girls?
> What I see of your goals doesn't jibe with your image. I understand the
> group is largely (entirely?) motivated by the indignation of its members.
You know, I think moreso it's motivated by an appreciation of anthropomorphic
material. & our image? Oh, isn't our image that of the Big Scary Bad Guys?
Personally, I think the use of Burned Fur's imagery in that context is quite
amusing.
> But the feelings motivating you should not be confused with the goal. This
> image is the WRONG recruiting tool, as anger and hatred are the worst
> possible images to associate with your "distilled fandom."
In regards to recruitment, you know what I've heard most about Burned Fur?
Even moreso than the responses which you echo? I've heard, "Oh yeah, Burned
Fur. Heh. I'd never associate myself with furrydom in the first place, that
whole scene is too far gone & I don't want anything to do with it. I just
like funny animals, that's all."
> Okay. This points to calling for established goals. Where ARE you going? How
> far have you gotten? If you can't actively quantify the movement's success,
> it's probably because you don't have a destination in mind. Without that,
> you're nothing but a little social clique running on feelings and individual
> interpretations.
"First you have to admit that you have a problem & you want to change it."
You know what furry's biggest hurdle is? Admitting that something stinks in
Denmark. & it stinks to high heaven. Burned Fur's not the problem: it's a
symptom. Objective 1, as I see it, is addressing this fact. Some guy on a
British TV show determined that Confurence, Furry's oldest con, is basically
a plushophile orgy. How did this happen? How did he end up at the CF site
instead of Ebay (where you can buy plushies) or FAO Schwartz, or
realdoll.com, or whatever? Goodness knows there *should* have been lots more
relevant things to find...but no, here it is laid at furry's doorstep once
again, because some twerp finds a group of people who like talking-animal
stuff & decides to make this talking-animal fandom the coming-out party for
his fuzzy acrylic dildo.
Now, detractors have suggested that Burned Fur is making the situation worse
by bandying around certain buzzwords like bestiality, zoophilia,
plushophilia, & such. Strangely, this only seems to come up when someone
Unpopular on whatever forum happens to utter these magical words. Apparently
these are The Loves That Dare Not Speak Their Names On Newsgroups, but it's
okay to post flyers at furry conventions for meetings of enthusiasts of these
practices. Go figure. Some people suggest that well, you can't stop people of
likeminded interests from getting together at cons to discuss their
predilections. This is true. But, you know, I've never seen those magical P
& Z words before I found furry fandom...& I'm not entirely a recluse. I get
around some. But I had to find furry before I found out what P's & Z's stood
for. Never saw a P or a Z flyer at an antique car show, or an art festival,
or a flea market, or a coffeehouse, or a music store, or a comic shop. Don't
even see a lot of P or Z words in personal ads, where you see all kinds of
funny words sometimes. Go figure.
> Who are you trying to reach? What is the base message for each group you
> want to reach? How are you reaching these groups?
It's a wake-up call, as I see it...seems to be working rather well, too, eh?
> What are you trying to eliminate? Where are you trying to eliminate it
> from - fandom or just 'burned fur approved' fandom?
This is all addressed in the documents which you supposedly read.
> What are you trying to create? What specifically are you encouraging? By
> what means?
A fandom based on appreciation of anthropomorphic characters, last I
checked...why is that so difficult to understand? One would try to encourage
this by supporting anthropomorphic writers, artists, & enthusiasts, taking
part in fandom-based endeavors, & so on. Basic furry-type stuff. If we
weren't doing *anything*, we'd throw up our hands & leave in frustrated
disgust.
> Again - there is NO room for vagary in enumerating the movement's goals in
> any of the above areas.
I will endeavor to keep my capricious nature in check. Sheesh.
> Who are your leaders - who speaks for you? Like it or not, you're not going
> to get far without officers.
What, this is a club, now? I was only *joking* about the secret decoder
rings, really. You don't have to *do* anything to be a burned fur, except
relate...goodness knows I've seen the banner on lots of pages of people who
*I've* never met, & I'm generally a reg in the newsgroup, board, & chats. Are
there officers of the Non-Aligned Furs? What are their actions & goals
&cetera? Are there officers & leaders of Furry Lifestylers? Are you posting
worried missives to their newsgroups comparing them to Jehovah's Witnesses?
How about those suspicious-looking funny animal enthusiasts? What are THEY up
to?
> You need people capable of orchestrating the
> group when it needs to be called to action.
LOL...action like what? Defensive measures against all the surly furries who
tell us about their handguns?
> You need definitive approval or
> rejection for actions such as the one which lead to the CF fiasco.
Why? Do all furry fans need to agree on their opinion of it too, because they
are all furry fans? Do we have to have an official opinion on the price of tea
in China as well?
> Whether
> or not it was BF that did this has apparently NOT been established and it
> isn't important to my point, which is that you should have had someone who
> could say "we did/did not condone this action."
Various Burned Furs have expressed their various opinions on the matter. Why
*would* Burned Fur condone it? As has been said time & again, Burned Fur takes
no position on spooge. If Burned Fur goes anti-spooge, I will take my leave of
it.
> And you need a mature and
> amicable face for the group when dealing with media and Furrydom PR.
See, this is the thing. We know how to behave in public. That's why people who
*don't*know how to behave get on our nerves so much. Understand?
> Right now, everyone's seeing a crowd with torches. Change the name. Define
> your image and your goals. Tell us you're leading us to a nicer future and
> give us a reason to believe it.
People will see what they want to see, whatever the name is. Burned Furs are
what they are & the name suits them. If you relate, you relate. If you don't,
you don't. All this mad chatter of homophobia & censorship & KKK & Nazis
displays to me a low level of maturity, lack of empathy & common sense, a
deliberate detachment from reality & perspective, & a great degree of
self-importance & self-centeredness. Maybe furrydom ought to change this
image. I don't know if I like what I see. Maybe it ought to start by changing
its name, 'Furry' being such an unsavory word. I'm not here because I found a
group of wonderful people who finally made me feel like I had a family. I'm
not here because I prefer an imaginary world to a real one. I'm not here
because I prefer the furry character I play with to my actual RL self. I'm
not here because I feel that my choice of sexual activity is more tolerated
within this enclave. I'm not here to be a big fish in a small pond.
I'm just here because I like anthropomorphics. How about you?
--Ezuli
http://www.skunked.com/ezuli
"Ceci n'est pas une lemur." --Not Magritte
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Brian McGroarty wrote:
*MEGA-SNIP*
>> For now, I'm a furry, not a burned fur.
Excellent post, Mr. McGroarty. You have some very valid points, and I too would
like to see a definitive statement of purpose from these well-intentioned but
misguided people.
However, I humbly beg your forgiveness in applying a KILL tag to this thread, as
I do with ALL Burned Fur threads. If you wish to reply to my posting in such a
way as for me to see it, I'm afraid you'll have to email me. <:)
Aloha!
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Farlo
Farlo
>pedophilia,
>bestiality,
Oh, goody! More Burned Fur references to PEDOPHILIA and BEASTIALITY.
>Burned Fur is making the situation worse
>by bandying around certain buzzwords like bestiality, zoophilia,
>plushophilia, & such.
Wow - even *more* Burned Fur references to BESTIALITY ZOOPHILIA
PLUSHOPHILIA - it's their FAVORITE topic! Lemurzuli just can't say it
enough.
Why is that? <- Rhetorical question
Cerulean
>Will somebody see that JML gets his medication before he posts again?
I submit, Farlo, in regard to your many various cheap cracks of this
nature, that you are Not Helping.
There is great deal of difference between arguing one's position and
playing "the dozens." I am also concerned with your fixation on the
idea that all sloppy thinking and/or belligerence is caused by either
an excess or lack of drugs.
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Brian McGroarty
Yeh - the fandom's always been easily thrown into a panic. I remember a
decade ago when it was "the end of the fandom" because two of Steve
Gallacci's pictures ("family" and "furtub") had made it onto a public BBS
and later one of the So Much Shareware BBS CD-ROMs. I've weathered a lot of
this, and I've generally laughed in private and tried to offer a calming
hand.
I see Burned Fur as different, as it -is- structured largely as a hate
group, and its goals and methods are unclear. Yes, Ezuli, I've read more
than an hour's worth of material. Have I read each of the thousands of
messages in the DejaNews conference and tracked down all material elsewhere?
No. I've read quite a few which puts me well up the curve on BF reading, but
even those posts are irrelevant as they regard personal interpretation,
whereas the two documents up front are the closest the group offers to a
common stance. Until the manifesto and mission statement reflect
differently, I don't back down on my points.
It's also worth stating that the reason I harp on Burned Fur isn't out of a
dislike for the group. More, it's becuase I WOULD like to see many things
dissociated from the fandom I enjoy. I've been a fur since before the days
of MUCKs, alt.fan.furry, Distant Suns and FurNet echos. And I've seen what I
perceive as a steady decline in the furry culture in my time with the
fandom.
I'd like to log onto a MUCK or visit a con and not have some things paraded
in front of me, and there are definitely those I -definitely- don't want
associated with me, my friends or the places I hang out.
And if I could see a straightforward plan and a common stance on what is and
isn't okay, or if Burned Fur would take the approach of owning a new name
and introducing specific elements rather than starting with Furrydom and
eliminating aspects, I'd be hopping in line and trying my best to help it
along.
Mff.
Nuff for today.
Snowfox
http://www.mcs.net/~snowfox
ba...@ursine.dyndns.org
> J.M.L. schrieb:
>> enjoy dirty pics of funny animals anymore. Boo-hoo. Here's a quarter.
>> Call someone who gives a damn.
> Doesn't it cost 35c??
Only if you use GTE, USWest or a COCOT (Coin operated customer owned
telephone, the ones that have some telephone company you've never heard of
listed on them, with a phone book from Bell or GTE).
When I visited Los Angeles (ineptly named, IMHO), I made local phone calls
on the phones there from 10c (Fox Fone) to 25c (Antelope Valley Payphone
System (A COCOT)).
--
Baloo Ursidae
Mark Loggins
their own vocabulary. Like when a furry says 'toleration' he really means
'apathetic acceptance' Now it seems they're defining 'hate' as 'disagreeing
with me'. I've seen that at work before. You disagree with someone about,
say, pokemon on a furry IRC channel and you will get banned from that
channel. If you say you like the color blue over the color red and a furry
disagrees with you, you hate him. See, furries take everything so
personally. All the BFs want to do is get the sick elements in the fandom
out of the public eye. What's wrong with that? Do they sell Hustler next to
People on the magazine rack? According to furry 'logic,' a sex shop should
be in the mall between The Gap and Banana Repulic. It's ridiculous.
Fetishes, pornography and all the associated crap do have a place. It's in
the back room. If you wanna buy, fine. But it. Do whatever you want to in
the privacy of your own homes. I don't care. I just don't want to see it. I
don't want to know you fuck you dog, horse or plushy. Don't tell me about
it. You know what scares me? Some little child searching for zoology stuff
on the web running up on zoophilia crap. That would be horrible. And because
I feel that way. Because I think zoophilia is wrong and if you must do it,
you should do it in private along with all the other kinky crap, I am a hate
monger, too, right?
--Random
Farlo
>Quoth Farlo:
>
>>Will somebody see that JML gets his medication before he posts again?
>
>I submit, Farlo, in regard to your many various cheap cracks of this
>nature, that you are Not Helping.
There's a plan to what I'm doing, but you are almost correct.
I like to hand certain people enough rope to hang themselves.
It's help, of a sort (the wrong sort, true). >:)
>There is great deal of difference between arguing one's position and
>playing "the dozens."
There is no point in arguing my position with some of these people.
Therefore, I hand them more rope.
What they do with such a line is up to them.
>I am also concerned with your fixation on the
>idea that all sloppy thinking and/or belligerence is caused by either
>an excess or lack of drugs.
Well, one pill makes you smaller, and one pill makes you tall.
Pills are like ideas, and the medication that certain people need
is in amounts I won't supply.
J.M.L.
: On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 09:54:08 GMT, coy...@brionne.cyberverse.com (J.M.L.)
: (J.M.L.) left the following spoor in alt.fan.furry:
: >
: > So let me try to understand here. Since a few folks all bent out of
: > shape over the way things have been going go about with their guerillia
: > tactics to try and turn everything into as tither, then they obviously
: > must be speaking for the entire group?
: >
: Of course!
: Looks like the shoe may be on the other foot.
: Many of the apparent members of the BF movement (and I've done
: my best to NOT keep track of the membership) have often declared that
: the words/actions of certain individuals paints the entire fandom a
: disreputable color.
Of course, I've never seriously thought that. A lot of degenerates
around here though love shoving words in other people's mouths and then
gloating like sons of bitches. Yawn. What's next?
: This is the same charge, but made against the BF group -- a few
: individuals say/do such-and-such, therefore the entire group must be
: that way.
: To denounce the charge on one side fairly means you must
: denounce it on the other too. If not, then logic is ignored in favor of
: an emotional bias.
Well you realize of course I'm saying that both sides are doing this,
right? A lot of Furries are emotionally biased against anything one of
'them' says, even if it really doesn't apply to them. Ditto that for some
Burned Furs. Of course you can't say one bad thing about one side without
that side thinking you're pandering to the other side. Oh, I just love
how that works.
You think if I handed you all guns we could get this over with in one
moment? No, you can't point them at me.
Wanderer
(snip)
>
> I'm often amazed at the sheer stupidity on both sides of this issue.
>Furs can't laugh at themselves for some reason, and lack any sort of sense
>of humor.
(snip)
Sir, I laugh at myself regularly, every time I make an obvious mistake,
goof, flub, etc. I laugh at myself bitterly, on occasion, when "my dreams
fall apart at the seams". And I laugh at a lot of jokes.
Pardon, love ... but if Burned Fur is a joke, it's a dratted poor one.
'Tain't funny.
Yours truly,
The light-hearted-usually,
Wanderer**wand...@ticnet.com
Where am I going?I don't quite know.
What does it matter where people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow.
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I*don't know!
Liberte
> The Ku Klux Klan focuses on trying to abstract Negroes from our society. The
> group is similarly unfocussed - some members hope to kill Negroes, some hope
> to export them, some want to reinstate slavery. Some believe Indians and
> Hispanics are included. Some even don't like members of non-Protestant
> religions. There isn't a forward goal, and the Klan's official line is that
> they want to preserve white heritage, and that they don't condone acts
> against other races. The only thing that formally ties the group together is
> a dislike, and the wish that the group should grow. This is the definition
> of a hate group, and until Burned Fur learns to define itself better, this
> is what Burned Fur is as well.
> "Burned Fur" is a terrible name for this movement.
I don't suppose it matters to you that the person who wrote the initial
Burned Fur Manifesto is a young black woman, does it? You should think
twice before you go comparing the Burned Furs with the Ku Klux Klan or
other actual "hate groups." Don't insult the memory of true victims who've
suffered actual injustice, torture, and death by comparing them to the
"oppressed" dog-fuckers and plushie-boinkers.
Did you actually take the time to READ the BF Manifesto? I think not.
BTW, the Burned Furs are NOT against gays or spooge art either. Please
stop trying to connect the legitimate battle for gay rights/equality with
some idiots who want to make fools of themselves by wearing tails or
yabbering about how much they like to "poking" their pets and Meeko dolls.
Mark Atwood
>
> I don't suppose it matters to you that the person who wrote the initial
> Burned Fur Manifesto is a young black woman, does it? You should think
> twice before you go comparing the Burned Furs with the Ku Klux Klan or
> other actual "hate groups."
It makes no difference what the age, race, ethnicity, gender,
sexuality, accent or upbringing someone in these forums is. BF is a
negative group, with no constructive proposal or affermative agenda,
defining itself only by who it is not (and not very clearly at that
either).
> Don't insult the memory of true victims who've suffered actual
> injustice, torture, and death by comparing them to the "oppressed"
> dog-fuckers and plushie-boinkers.
The fact that that magnitude is different does not mean the comparison
is different. The observed similarities still stand, depite your
attempt to hose around some liberal guilt.
> Did you actually take the time to READ the BF Manifesto? I think not.
I did.
--
Mark Atwood | There is no spoon.
m...@pobox.com |
Cerulean
>I don't suppose it matters to you that the person who wrote the initial
>Burned Fur Manifesto is a young black woman, does it?
Are you saying it should? Think carefully about this one.
>You should think
>twice before you go comparing the Burned Furs with the Ku Klux Klan or
>other actual "hate groups." Don't insult the memory of true victims who've
>suffered actual injustice, torture, and death by comparing them to the
>"oppressed" dog-fuckers and plushie-boinkers.
I think the idea is to curb the antagonism _before_ it actually gets
to the "injustice, torture and death" stage this time.
>Did you actually take the time to READ the BF Manifesto? I think not.
If you had actually taken the time to read Mr. McGroarty's post, you
wouldn't doubt that he had. You might also have seen his point, which
is that no matter what the "official" charter is, the followers of the
Burned Fur movement can misinterpret it just as much as anyone else.
It has no membership roster, therefore anybody who calls himself a
Burned Fur is one, and can claim to be acting on behalf of the group
no matter what they are doing. We have seen examples of people who
called for anti-porn action, terrorist tactics, and yes, even anti-gay
crusades _in_the_name_of_Burned_Fur,_ and you can't with any
credibility say they aren't Burned Furs unless you have some formal
mechanism for deciding who's in the clubhouse.
>BTW, the Burned Furs are NOT against gays or spooge art either. Please
>stop trying to connect the legitimate battle for gay rights/equality with
>some idiots who want to make fools of themselves by wearing tails or
>yabbering about how much they like to "poking" their pets and Meeko dolls.
I'd bet if I searched hard enough through current newspapers, I could
find a similar statement in which the legitimate battle for gay rights
is given the second half instead, probably illustrated with an equally
absurd caricature having to do with black leather shorts and seducing
little boys. You can't expect an argument to appear rational with such
heavily weighted words.
Once upon a time, most people thought the concept of "sexism" was an
absurd extension of the concept of racism. In fact, William Safire is
still alive today, isn't he?
The fact of the matter is that all people have rights, no matter what
names you call them. By using pejorative names like "plushie-boinker"
you try to advance the perception that they don't count as people.
If your response to that is that they can boink plushies if they want
but they give up their right to be seen in the fandom as soon as they
let anyone know about it, well, I have to bring up the sexuality
comparison again and hope you actually see what I mean. "Don't ask,
don't tell" quickly becomes "Hope nobody finds out or you're busted,"
and it's an unrealistic thing to expect.
StukaFox
: I think the idea is to curb the antagonism _before_ it actually gets
: to the "injustice, torture and death" stage this time.
I hate to tell you this, but the antagonism against people who
believe what BF's believe has been on-going for some time now.
What you're seeing now is called backlash. Be careful -- it
can come back VERY strong.
If you piss on people as individuals, don't be suprised if they
band and come back at you. I think BF is a perfect example of
this.
StukaFox
--
GREAT EMPTY THREATS OF THE USENET #109:
"When I'm finished in nanau, I'm gonna pay the newsgroups you frequent
a visit. You aren't going to like it."
Tim "Wanky the Wanker" Thorn
specia...@hell-flame-wars.org
Elf Sternberg
libe...@dejanews.com (Liberte) writes:
>I don't suppose it matters to you that the person who wrote the initial
>Burned Fur Manifesto is a young black woman, does it?
Argumentum ad lazarum; the fallacious notion that because
she's a member of a nominal oppressed minority she cannot engage in
oppression herself. Of course she can. The hated are perfectly
capable of hating right back.
>I think not.
Too true.
>BTW, the Burned Furs are NOT against gays or spooge art either. Please
>stop trying to connect the legitimate battle for gay rights/equality with
>some idiots who want to make fools of themselves by wearing tails or
>yabbering about how much they like to "poking" their pets and Meeko dolls.
In short, they're interested in supressing a legitimate form
of furry fandom. And yes, it's legit whether you like it or not. I'm
not fond of it; I think people who wear tails in RL public
(i.e. outside of con spaces) get what they deserve.
If you don't like it, LEAVE. Make your own space. But don't
complain that the spaces you used to like aren't for you anymore.
That's life.
Elf
--
Elf M. Sternberg, rational romantic mystic cynical idealist
If you're so smart, why aren't you naked?
A.A 1493 http://www.halcyon.com/elf/
StukaFox
: If you don't like it, LEAVE.
No, if you don't like it, FIX IT!
Constructive is best, right?
Mark Loggins
In article <7edvmd$2ej$1...@brokaw.wa.com>, e...@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
wrote:
<snippage>
> In short, they're interested in supressing a legitimate form
> of furry fandom. And yes, it's legit whether you like it or not. I'm
> not fond of it; I think people who wear tails in RL public
> (i.e. outside of con spaces) get what they deserve.
Having sexual relations with housepets, livestock and plushies is a legit
form of furry fandom? The hell...?
> If you don't like it, LEAVE. Make your own space. But don't
> complain that the spaces you used to like aren't for you anymore.
> That's life.
Why does it always boil down to that? 'I like the status quo, so just leave
if you don't, ya big meanie!'. Feh! An argument befitting the person who
wrote 'One night on Thundara,' indeed.
> Elf
--Random
Chris Johnson
libe...@dejanews.com (Liberte) wrote:
> I don't suppose it matters to you that the person who wrote the initial
> twice before you go comparing the Burned Furs with the Ku Klux Klan or
> other actual "hate groups."
What difference does that make? She doesn't _act_ like a 'victim'. She
acts like a person, and there is no reason not to hold her responsible for
her actions, beliefs, whatever. Own what you do.
Seriously- that's _so_ irrelevant.
Jinx_tigr
(aka Chris Johnson)
Richard de Wylfin
> stop trying to connect the legitimate battle for gay rights/equality with
> some idiots who want to make fools of themselves by wearing tails or
> yabbering about how much they like to "poking" their pets and Meeko dolls.
Why are you lumping together something as innocuous as wearing a tail with
z**philia? Try making sense once in a while, and see what a difference it
makes.
David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus)
> All the BFs want to do is get the sick elements in the fandom
>out of the public eye. What's wrong with that?
Whats wrong with that is the so called sick elements don't regard
themselfs as sick.
--
Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia. See
http://www.zeta.org.au/~dformosa/Spelling.html to find out more.
S.J.Laitila
Ahem...
<honk>
J.M.L.
: libe...@dejanews.com (Liberte) writes:
: >
: > I don't suppose it matters to you that the person who wrote the initial
: > Burned Fur Manifesto is a young black woman, does it? You should think
: > twice before you go comparing the Burned Furs with the Ku Klux Klan or
: > other actual "hate groups."
: It makes no difference what the age, race, ethnicity, gender,
: sexuality, accent or upbringing someone in these forums is. BF is a
: negative group, with no constructive proposal or affermative agenda,
: defining itself only by who it is not (and not very clearly at that
: either).
You know you could have just said, 'no it doesn't matter to me at all'.
Would have amounted to the same thing.
: > Don't insult the memory of true victims who've suffered actual
: > injustice, torture, and death by comparing them to the "oppressed"
: > dog-fuckers and plushie-boinkers.
: The fact that that magnitude is different does not mean the comparison
: is different. The observed similarities still stand, depite your
: attempt to hose around some liberal guilt.
If y'all start marching around, holding hands and singing 'We Shall
Overcome' I'll mail you a pipebomb.
That's a joke, son! You missed it.
J.M.L.
: If you don't like it, LEAVE. Make your own space. But don't
: complain that the spaces you used to like aren't for you anymore.
: That's life.
It's what I've been trying to tell a number of folks for a while now.
Unfortunately many people got this notion that it's their fandom and the
other side is the aggressor. Like, Jesus Christ man, why would anyone
really care that much about a stupid fandom like this? You must have
no real problems if you have to dwell on this stuff.
On the other hands, there have been very real tales about some folks
who've dug themselves too deep in this crap, and subsequantly find
themselves unable to get legitimate work in the entertainment feild
because of it. Of course if they had used some common sense early in
their 'carreers' they might have avoided all of that trouble. That's what
you get for drawing Fifi and Minerva spooge with shameless blatantcy.
Shame on you. Unless you're an anarchist. Then I salute you.
America's too hung up on sex. Furries are way too loose. And this
thread is a violation of Godwin's law. You shouldn't be feeding it. Er,
like I just did.
Victry "Vixy" Hyzenthlay
>In article <vcUN2.372$Dz5.1...@elnws01.ce.mediaone.net>,
>"Brian McGroarty" <br...@pobox.com> wrote:
>{big a'snippins}
>>common dislike for many aspects of the fandom. And the degree
>>or extent of this, or the aims of the group, are terribly unclear.
>
>Only those "aspects" of the fandom that are not relevant to
>anthropomorphics.
Correction: Only those "aspects" of the fandom that *burned-
furs* consider not relevant. However, BFs are no more representive
of the fandom than EB is of artists.
They are just a meager pawful out of the entire Furry Fandom.
Not BF fandom, not Furry Artist's fandom, not AFF fandom, but
Furry Fandom. And Furry Fandom definately belongs to the fans.
This past CF X has shown, if not proven very distinctly, that what
the Fans want, they get. Regardless of anyone trying to influence
the Fandom or its events.
Right now, BFs are only a small group and only a pawful of
them actually argue the things that we have seen here since they
started in September last year. Their extreme claims of corruption
in the fandom are vague and baseless, reading more like rants than
facts. I guess "clique" would best describe them. If they can
convince the entire fandom to listen to them, more power to 'em.
However, the fans still think quite differently and are still
happily enjoying Furry Fandom regardless of BF doomsaying. After
all, it's STILL just a pastime. ;)
>I'm just here because I like anthropomorphics. How about you?
I'm here because I'm a vixen at heart. AND I like to write
about it. :)
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Technofox and personal Vixen. "YIP!"
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Please post any response to this newsgroup. Thanks.
Dr. Cat
: Why are you lumping together something as innocuous as wearing a tail with
: z**philia? Try making sense once in a while, and see what a difference it
: makes.
Well maybe some places, but not round hereabouts it don't. We don't much
coton to them slick big city fellers coming around hyar and making sense.
We ain't got no use for sense around these parts and we don't like it.
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StukaFox
: On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 19:38:28 -0400, Mark Loggins <sph...@crl.com> wrote:
:> All the BFs want to do is get the sick elements in the fandom
:>out of the public eye. What's wrong with that?
: Whats wrong with that is the so called sick elements don't regard
: themselfs as sick.
Thanks for my new .sig file!
StukaFox
After I ditch Wanky the Wanker
Xydexx Squeakypony
> We ain't got no use for sense around these parts and we don't like it.
Today's interesting bit of trivia:
You can sing The Meatball Song to the tune of the "Chariots of Fire" theme.
On top of spaghetti
All covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed
Try it. It works. And now you'll never be able to watch Chariots Of Fire
again without having that song go through your head. Don't blame me... it's
my friend Kurt's fault. He's the one who pointed it out. I'm just the
messenger, y'know.
Gawd, I love being a menace to the fandom. I'm like a big squeaky
navigational hazard.
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Xydexx Squeakypony, doesn't like Burned Toast [ICQ: 7569393]
Xydexx's Anthrofurry Homepage:
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Xydexx Squeakypony
> Why does it always boil down to that?
Obviously it's been cooking too long. Don't feel bad, though, I don't think
I made oatmeal right the first time either. All I can suggest is that you
follow the directions next time.
Yanno, Gawd has a Holy Catapult with your name written on it, and he's asked
me to use it. I don't think the others will mind.
Step right in. It'll be fun. Trust me.
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Xydexx Squeakypony, who doesn't really like oatmeal anyway
Farlo
>>Will somebody see that JML gets his medication before he posts again?
>
>Ahem...
>
><honk>
I believe that I've just had my nose beeped...
Ack! =)
Xydexx Squeakypony
> Sir, I laugh at myself regularly, every time I make an obvious mistake,
> goof, flub, etc. I laugh at myself bitterly, on occasion, when "my dreams
> fall apart at the seams". And I laugh at a lot of jokes.
This newsgroup gets way too serious sometimes. I think someone needs to come
fill the newsgroup with oatmeal. I think filling the newsgroup with oatmeal
would do wonders for some people. I think we need more poodles that explode
when you pet them. I think we need exploding poodles in oatmeal, yes.
I think every Friday should be Exploding Poodles In Oatmeal Day on AFF,
because it's really hard to flame someone when they're covered in oatmeal and
exploded poodle pieces. I don't think we should use real poodles, though.
They should be stuffed poodles, or even better, poodles made out of spam or
carved out of cheese.
They should also be obscenely cute, so people like Jim Groat will join in on
the carnage. I think that would be fun.
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Xydexx Squeakypony, out of his cage again [ICQ: 7569393]
Kai Robinson
>"S.J.Laitila" s...@saunalahti.com wrote in <7efs7n$c7l$2...@tron.sci.fi>:
>
>>>Will somebody see that JML gets his medication before he posts again?
>>
>>Ahem...
>>
>><honk>
>
>I believe that I've just had my nose beeped...
>
>Ack! =)
Yay! I've started a trend!
-KaiRo
Xydexx Squeakypony
> You know you could have just said, 'no it doesn't matter to me at all'.
> Would have amounted to the same thing.
Frankly I'm surprised nobody has created a Burned Furbies page yet. Someone
should decorate one with leftover Easter candy and set it aflame. I'd
suggest using jelly beans, since they burn extremely well. Get a small
catapult and launch a few flaming Furbies into a busy highway and watch the
fun start. I mean, if something like the Hampster Dance page can dozens of
hits, just think of how many hits a car windshield will get. Rush hour will
never be the same, I tell ya.
> That's a joke, son! You missed it.
I don't think Furbies are a real threat unless they start devouring homes
like those Cabbage Patch Kids started doing a few years back. Entire
neighborhoods wiped clear off the map. I think furry fandom has more to fear
from the likes of Izzy the Olympic Mascot and Barney. The good news is in a
few million years Barney will be motor oil.
Oh and if you see Mer'rark, don't forget to say Matt Henry says hi.
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Xydexx "Oatmeal Is Not Appropriate Business Attire" Squeakypony
Xydexx Squeakypony
> What you're seeing now is called backwash. Be careful -- it
> can come back VERY strong.
Ew. That's disgusting. And when a Pervert Superstar like myself says
something is disgusting, that says a lot.
I think backwash can be especially nasty if it's full of oatmeal or bits of
exploded poodle. No, really, I'm serious. As though anyone takes me
seriously, right? Heh. If there's one thing everyone can agree on, it's
that a mouthful of oatmeal backwash isn't very appetizing.
> "When I'm finished in nanau, I'm gonna pay the newsgroups you frequent
> a visit. You aren't going to like it."
I've never been to Nanau, but I hear it's lovely this time of year. We should
have a furry convention there sometime. I hear the Nanau Heights Hilton is a
pretty decent sized hotel (built on the site of the old one that sank into the
ground after the last oatmeal storm). It's convenient to a major airport and
rail station, too. Maybe we can talk Darrell Exline into having CF11 there.
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Xydexx Squeakypony, doesn't like backwash one bit... [ICQ: 7569393]
Elf Sternberg
StukaFox <stuk...@shell9.ba.best.com> writes:
>Elf Sternberg <e...@halcyon.com> wrote:
>: If you don't like it, LEAVE.
> No, if you don't like it, FIX IT!
> Constructive is best, right?
Depends on the construction. Personally, there are some
"constructions" that were better off being demolished; take the Berlin
Wall for example. Your "constructive" issue is a nice and touchy-
feely claim, but it doesn't work in reality, where we have two groups
of people laying claim to "furry fandom" and their positions are
mutually exclusive. The Burned Furs have the manifesto on their side;
the others have an "ignorance is bliss and we're gonna show up anyway
'cause we have nothing to lose if we do" attitude on theirs. Each
wants the other to shut up and go away.
"Constructive" sometimes means leaving and constructing your
own space somewhere else. That may be the only alternative left at
this point. There doesn't seem to be much that can dissuade the tail-
wearers, their money's as green as anyone's, and unless Furry fandom
wants to stop taking it and listen only to the BF folks they're both
gonna continue this ridiculous battle until the sun goes cold.
Mark Loggins
In article <7ecssv$5c5$2...@phaedrus.zeta.org.au>, dfor...@zeta.org.au (David
Formosa (aka ? the Platypus)) wrote:
> Whats wrong with that is the so called sick elements don't regard
> themselfs as sick.
NAMBLA says man-boy love is healthy and good. Does that justify pedophilia?
--Random
Lost Number
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> This newsgroup gets way too serious sometimes. I think someone needs to
come
> fill the newsgroup with oatmeal. I think filling the newsgroup with
oatmeal
> would do wonders for some people.
Noooo! I _hate_ oatmeal!
> I think we need more poodles that explode
> when you pet them.
This I can live with.
> I think we need exploding poodles in oatmeal, yes.
Well, if it's ugly oatmeal, okay.
*Muke!
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Lost Number
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> On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 19:38:28 -0400, Mark Loggins <sph...@crl.com> wrote:
>
> > All the BFs want to do is get the sick elements in the fandom
> >out of the public eye. What's wrong with that?
>
> themselfs as sick.
<wild applause>
*Muke, who can name many 'normal' things once thought 'sick' by
outsiders.
Darrel L. Exline
>
> Analogizing BF to the KKK is a tool for illustrating exactly what the
> problem is here. You missed the point entirely - please reread the original
> posting.
>
> I don't give a damn if I can buy porn at CF or if I have to find it online
> and via mail order. I do however give a damn as to whether I or my friends
> are going to be the next ones stepped on by BF, or by people who believe
> they're acting in the vaguely defined spirit of BF.
I think you missed two key points: First, the problems at CF10 had NOTHING to
do with burned furs, although all all the "armchair quarterbacks" out there said
that it was.
Second, the Burned Furs are NOT a terrorist or *hate* organization. In fact, I
can only find radical Anti-burned furs (like those who call themselves the
"Soaked Furs") who are stating that the Burned Furs are doing anything against
other furs.
There were many burned furs at ConFurence. they didn't wear buttons, they
didn't preach... they bought the art they liked, and ignored what they didn't
like. On the other hand, the "Soaked Furs" wore buttons, took every opportunity
to talk bad about the Burned Fur Movement... on several occasions blamed the
Burned Furs for trying to destroy confurence...
From these facts, which one of the above groups would you call a *hate* group?
Which one was spreading lies? Which one was "in your face" and vocal to the
point of minimizing your fun?
The burned furs are merely an opinion group. You can ignore their opinion
simply by not visiting their websites.
--
Darrel L. Exline, darrelx(a)home.com, http://www.polarden.org
a.k.a. Jym_Chago, "Your friendly neighborhood Polar Bear"
--> "ConFurence 11" Director and Co-chair, Spring 2000 <--
Darrel L. Exline
>
> Will somebody see that JML gets his medication before he posts again?
>
I think that for a 3am posting, he was quite coherent.
Cerulean
>This newsgroup gets way too serious sometimes. I think someone needs to come
>fill the newsgroup with oatmeal. I think filling the newsgroup with oatmeal
>would do wonders for some people.
"Question 1: How much Jell-O do you think it would take to completely
fill the White House?" -- Millie
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Darrel L. Exline
> I think every Friday should be Exploding Poodles In Oatmeal Day on AFF,
> because it's really hard to flame someone when they're covered in oatmeal and
> exploded poodle pieces. I don't think we should use real poodles, though.
> They should be stuffed poodles, or even better, poodles made out of spam or
> carved out of cheese.
>
> They should also be obscenely cute, so people like Jim Groat will join in on
> the carnage. I think that would be fun.
Cna I start planning the first annual Oatmeal-stuffed Poodle-ball game for CF11,
hosted by none other than Jim Groat. :)
--
Darrel L. Exline, darrelx(a)home.com, http://www.polarden.org
a.k.a. Jym_Chago, "Your friendly neighborhood Polar Bear"
--> "ConFurence 11" Director and Co-chair, Spring 2000 <--
"The operative word for CF11 will be "Discretion". This is *not* to be
mistaken for censorship or oppression."
Darrel L. Exline
> All the BFs want to do is get the sick elements in the fandom
> People on the magazine rack? According to furry 'logic,' a sex shop should
> be in the mall between The Gap and Banana Repulic. It's ridiculous.
I think you've hit the nail on the head.
---
Michael Campbell
> If you don't like it, LEAVE. Make your own space. But don't
> complain that the spaces you used to like aren't for you anymore.
> That's life.
Leave? Me? Why should I leave a scene I feel has some problems and want to fix?
Because you say so?
Who died and made you king? Because that's what "If you don't like it, leave"
means. It means that you are more important than I am, and if my opinion
differs from yours that I, being less important than you, are wrong, should
leave, and stop polluting YOUR scene. Like I asked before, who made you furry
king of the universe?
Furry fandom is not about YOU, and it's not about ME, it's about US. It's well
past time more folks started realizing this. This "Furry is about doing
whatever you want and not caring what others think" attitude is what is slowly
killing this fandom.
GothTiger (tig...@execpc.com)
Darrel L. Exline
> Right now, everyone's seeing a crowd with torches. Change the name. Define
> your image and your goals. Tell us you're leading us to a nicer future and
> give us a reason to believe it.
Burned Furs are not the ones *with* the torches... they are the ones who are
tired of being burned, hence the name. It's appropriate.
--
Farry
<dar...@home.com> wrote:
>...
>The burned furs are merely an opinion group. You can ignore their opinion
>simply by not visiting their websites.
Now that sounds good! But is that now the majority BF viewpoint?
In BF's first few months, the number of its members that bought into
the "keep on flaming" strategy was sufficient to damage BF's image
seriously and maybe permanently. They alienated people, including
myself, who should have been BF supporters. Just look at the size of
the anti-BF backlash - those "Soaked Furs" and the like.
So is BF changing? Or do they still believe "in your face" is best?
Anyway, best of luck with CF11.
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Elf Sternberg
Michael Campbell <tig...@execpc.com> writes:
>> If you don't like it, LEAVE. Make your own space. But don't
>> complain that the spaces you used to like aren't for you anymore.
>> That's life.
>Who died and made you king? Because that's what "If you don't like it, leave"
>means. It means that you are more important than I am, and if my opinion
>differs from yours that I, being less important than you, are wrong, should
>leave, and stop polluting YOUR scene. Like I asked before, who made you furry
>king of the universe?
>
>Furry fandom is not about YOU, and it's not about ME, it's about US.
BULLSHIT!
Furry fandom is a meaningless term bandied about by people who
desperately want it to mean something. It has no real definition; the
entire point of this little flamewar is that there are two groups of
people who want to set the definition of "furry" in stone and then use
that stone to bash the other group until they finally fall down and
whimper, "Okay, we won't come play in your sandbox anymore." It's
nonsense.
And no, I'm not "king." If *I* don't like it and I can't see
a compromise that suits, *I* leave. This has gone on long enough; the
end of negotiations are long overdue and if either of these groups had
any moral authority they would have swayed the rest of us. It's that
simple. It is about you, you know; it's about whether or not you feel
the fandom is worth it. This isn't something that one risks life and
limb for; it's not food, water, air, or sex. It's just words and
pictures. And if you don't like them you leave them behind.
I haven't left because both groups are about as effective as
mosquitos in a Siberian winter, although both make as much noise and
are as annoying as those same bugs is a Siberian summer. I like a lot
of what comes out of "furry fandom." I like good art and I like good
writing, but it's telling that the best Furry stuff isn't coming from
people who associate with the fandom at all.
>It's well past time more folks started realizing this. This "Furry is
>about doing whatever you want and not caring what others think"
>attitude is what is slowly killing this fandom.
Good. If it dies, it dies. What takes its place (for there
will be something to take its place; it's a niche that needs filling,
and an itch that needs scratching) might learn from the mistakes of
the past and be a better fit for those who wander in.
Brian McGroarty
news:370BBBC2...@home.com...
> Brian McGroarty wrote:
> > Right now, everyone's seeing a crowd with torches. Change the name.
Define
> > your image and your goals. Tell us you're leading us to a nicer future
and
> > give us a reason to believe it.
>
> Burned Furs are not the ones *with* the torches... they are the ones who
are
> tired of being burned, hence the name. It's appropriate.
I didn't SAY they're the ones with torches. I said everyone's /seeing/ a
crowd with torches. And until the image gets a makeover and the goals
are -clearly defined-, they'll continue to be seen that way.
Richard de Wylfin
<tig...@execpc.com> wrote:
> > If you don't like it, LEAVE. Make your own space. But don't
> > complain that the spaces you used to like aren't for you anymore.
> > That's life.
>
> Leave? Me? Why should I leave a scene I feel has some problems and want
to fix?
> Because you say so?
>
> Who died and made you king? Because that's what "If you don't like it, leave"
> means. It means that you are more important than I am, and if my opinion
> differs from yours that I, being less important than you, are wrong, should
> leave, and stop polluting YOUR scene. Like I asked before, who made you furry
> king of the universe?
Elf isn't ordering anyone around; on the contrary, he's reminding you it's
*your* decision, *your* life to command and choose what to do with it.
*You* have the choice to leave or to stay. So do the rest of us.
> Furry fandom is not about YOU, and it's not about ME, it's about US.
Duh. . . I thought "us" was "you and me."
If not, who am us, anyway?
"This land is made of mountains
This land is made of mud
This land has lots of everything
For me and Elmer Fudd. . ."
Fender
>"This land is made of mountains
>This land is made of mud
>This land has lots of everything
>For me and Elmer Fudd. . ."
>
"This land has lots of trousers
This land has lots of Mausers
And pussycats to eat them
When the sun goes down."
Xydexx Squeakypony
> And, since they can't defend their actions or answer our accusations,
> they resort to pushing the "hatemonger" hot-button
That statement implies that you're actually interested in some sort of
rational debate, and we've already seen just how interested Burned Fur
is in rational debate:
"I'm glad you've finally come to understand that this
[dejanews.members.ent.videocube.burned-fur] is, and
has always been, an open forum where no viewpoint is
rejected."
---Clint Forrester, 12/07/98
"Until further notice, any post by you that appears in
[dejanews.members.ent.videocube.burned-fur] will be
cancelled on sight."
---Clint Forrester, 03/04/99
Just out of curiousity, have you ever considered the fact that people
wouldn't be calling you hatemongers if you didn't act like it? Of
course, that would require dropping the Burned Fur Manifesto...
> Oy. I read about that. I wanna know how much further the ghastly reputation
> of furry has to spread before the people out there in denial admit that maybe
> this is a BAD THING? So far, three magazines, several E-zines, and a
> TELEVISION SHOW watched by MILLIONS have spread the word that Furry equals
> PERVERT.
As I've already stated, it's a bit ironic how some people complain about
furry fandom being linked to bestia1ity or some other kinks from an
offhand reference in a magazine, and think nothing at all of making
hundreds of references to it on Usenet where it'll be archived for years
to come.
Take note, alt.fan.furry currently ranks as the number one newsgroup to
talk about zoophi1ia, and holds second place (and rising!) for relevance
to bestia1ity.
____________________________________________________________
Xydexx Squeakypony [ICQ: 7569393]
"The only problem with not participating in flamewars is
that nobody notices you're not participating in them." -Me
Lost Number
news:7eg9sn$lh$1...@crucigera.fysh.org...
> In article <7ecssv$5c5$2...@phaedrus.zeta.org.au>, dfor...@zeta.org.au (David
> Formosa (aka ? the Platypus)) wrote:
>
>
> > themselfs as sick.
>
> --Random
Similar statements could be made about racial equality, homosexuality,
women's rights, and zoophilia.
You aren't proving anything.
*Muke!
Lost Number
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> > > The name and the angry
> > > in-your-face logos share the same motif as many hate groups. Hell, the
> > > silhouette of the fur with the hammer looks pretty much like some of
the
> > > Stalin era communist government propaganda. That's certainly the wrong
first
> > > impression to make.
>
> What is being missed here is the fact that we could call ourselves the
> National Organization of Cuddly Friendly Fluffy Nice People, and have all
our
> logos made out of little pink bunnies and flowers, and we'd STILL be called
a
> 'hate group' and worse... simply due to the fact that our opposition HATES
> what we say...
Have you perhaps considered that the problem may not be what you say, but how
you are saying it?
I have seen many rants and hateful posts by people calling themselves Burned
Furs.
And I have seen very few level-headed, rational posts by the same people.
Guess which ones have the most positive impact? (on me, anyway.)
> We call crap, crap. And we state, LOUDLY, that we don't like
> it. And that just flies up their butts.
My understanding is that it goes the other way. ;) (But please continue.)
> And, since they can't defend their
> actions or answer our accusations, they resort to pushing the "hatemonger"
> hot-button-- a cheap dirty trick that gets the knee-jerk reaction from the
> uninformed that they want.
The proverb is that you'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
As long as Burned Fur carries the image of vinegar--_regardless_ of whether
or not it actually acts it out--it will have the problems McGroarty was
talking about.
Kyle L. Webb
>
> Don't tell me you're all innocent little lambs who've never
> tried to hack into BF sites in retaliation, or come here in support of you
> all while remaining anonymous, spewing out bile against 'those bad evil
> meanies!'.
When Goldman admitted he'd hacked the BF web ring, he was roundly
denounced by all sides.
The anonymous trolls were from both sides of the spectrum.
Kyle L. Webb
Hartree Fox on yiffnet
Ben Bruin
>
> > The name and the angry
> > in-your-face logos share the same motif as many hate groups. Hell, the
> > silhouette of the fur with the hammer looks pretty much like some of the
> > Stalin era communist government propaganda. That's certainly the wrong first
> > impression to make.
What is being missed here is the fact that we could call ourselves the
National Organization of Cuddly Friendly Fluffy Nice People, and have all our
logos made out of little pink bunnies and flowers, and we'd STILL be called a
'hate group' and worse... simply due to the fact that our opposition HATES
what we say... We call crap, crap. And we state, LOUDLY, that we don't like
it. And that just flies up their butts. And, since they can't defend their
actions or answer our accusations, they resort to pushing the "hatemonger"
hot-button-- a cheap dirty trick that gets the knee-jerk reaction from the
uninformed that they want.
Some guy on a
> British TV show determined that Confurence, Furry's oldest con, is basically
> a plushophile orgy. How did this happen? How did he end up at the CF site
> instead of Ebay (where you can buy plushies) or FAO Schwartz, or
> realdoll.com, or whatever? Goodness knows there *should* have been lots more
> relevant things to find...but no, here it is laid at furry's doorstep once
> again, because some twerp finds a group of people who like talking-animal
> stuff & decides to make this talking-animal fandom the coming-out party for
> his fuzzy acrylic dildo.
Oy. I read about that. I wanna know how much further the ghastly reputation
of furry has to spread before the people out there in denial admit that maybe
this is a BAD THING? So far, three magazines, several E-zines, and a
TELEVISION SHOW watched by MILLIONS have spread the word that Furry equals
PERVERT. All that's left is for Dan Rather to do an expose', and the fandom
is utterly damned. Ben Bruin
>
> Now, detractors have suggested that Burned Fur is making the situation worse
> by bandying around certain buzzwords like bestiality, zoophilia,
> plushophilia, & such
J.M.L.
: Farlo wrote:
: >
: > Will somebody see that JML gets his medication before he posts again?
: >
: > Farlo
: > Urban Fey Dragon
: > http://www.dejanews.com/~furculture
: I think that for a 3am posting, he was quite coherent.
You're much too kind. Next FC I'm buying -you- the Guiness.
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BoggsArt
It wasn't always like that...
...No, first they had to come from little towns with strange names like:
Smegma
Spasmodic
Frog
and the Far-Flung Isles of Langerhans
Matthew Milam
>In article <7eftl3$1...@newsops.execpc.com>
> Michael Campbell <tig...@execpc.com> writes:
>
>>> If you don't like it, LEAVE. Make your own space. But don't
>>> complain that the spaces you used to like aren't for you anymore.
>>> That's life.
>
>>Who died and made you king? Because that's what "If you don't like it, leave"
>>means. It means that you are more important than I am, and if my opinion
>>differs from yours that I, being less important than you, are wrong, should
>>leave, and stop polluting YOUR scene. Like I asked before, who made you furry
>>king of the universe?
>>
>>Furry fandom is not about YOU, and it's not about ME, it's about US.
>
> BULLSHIT!
I think what's bullshit here, is you actually assuming it is.
>
> Furry fandom is a meaningless term bandied about by people who
>desperately want it to mean something. It has no real definition; the
>entire point of this little flamewar is that there are two groups of
>people who want to set the definition of "furry" in stone and then use
>that stone to bash the other group until they finally fall down and
>whimper, "Okay, we won't come play in your sandbox anymore." It's
>nonsense.
>
> And no, I'm not "king." If *I* don't like it and I can't see
>a compromise that suits, *I* leave.
I don't think so. This is the only place i've seen were people can
belittle other people, and from what i've seen you've fit that
definiton well.
> This has gone on long enough; the
>end of negotiations are long overdue and if either of these groups had
>any moral authority they would have swayed the rest of us. It's that
>simple. It is about you, you know; it's about whether or not you feel
>the fandom is worth it. This isn't something that one risks life and
>limb for; it's not food, water, air, or sex. It's just words and
>pictures. And if you don't like them you leave them behind.
It's not that simple.
>
> I haven't left because both groups are about as effective as
>mosquitos in a Siberian winter, although both make as much noise and
>are as annoying as those same bugs is a Siberian summer. I like a lot
>of what comes out of "furry fandom." I like good art and I like good
>writing, but it's telling that the best Furry stuff isn't coming from
>people who associate with the fandom at all.
>
>>It's well past time more folks started realizing this. This "Furry is
>>about doing whatever you want and not caring what others think"
>>attitude is what is slowly killing this fandom.
>
> Good. If it dies, it dies. What takes its place (for there
>will be something to take its place; it's a niche that needs filling,
>and an itch that needs scratching) might learn from the mistakes of
>the past and be a better fit for those who wander in.
It's not that simple, and even you know that.
Matthew Milam
mmi...@interlync.com
Farlo
>On the other hand, the "Soaked Furs" wore buttons, took every opportunity
>to talk bad about the Burned Fur Movement... on several occasions blamed
the
>Burned Furs for trying to destroy confurence...
Damn, I saw people wearing those buttons, and thought it was in reference
to the rainy weather conditions! ACK! If i'd know, I would have gotten a
button, too.
Damn. Damn. Damn.
Chris Johnson
> This land is made of mud
> This land has lots of everything
> For me and Elmer Fudd. . ."
"This land has lots of trousers
This land has lots of Mausers...
(all together now!)
And PussyCats To Eat Them When The Sun Goooes Doooownnnn!"
(thank you, thank you)
Jinx_tigr
(aka Chris Johnson)
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_STOP!_
Snowfox
Lost Number <realv...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> > And, since they can't defend their
> > actions or answer our accusations, they resort to pushing the
"hatemonger"
> > hot-button-- a cheap dirty trick that gets the knee-jerk reaction from
the
> > uninformed that they want.
>
> As long as Burned Fur carries the image of vinegar--_regardless_ of
whether
> or not it actually acts it out--it will have the problems McGroarty was
> talking about.
*laugh* Stop that! Stop that stop that stop that!
I'll be Brian. I'll be "that guy". I'll be Snowfox or Snow. But no more "Mr.
McGroarty" - everyone keeps doing that in this thread, and you're making me
start to feel *old*, Mr. Number et al!
Feh! Do it again, and I'll find a way to give ya fleas! >:p :)
-Snowfox-
http://www.mcs.net/~snowfox
J.M.L.
Very good. Now tell me what's so hard about doing this sort of thing
for these alleged BFers sending secret messages to hotels or whatever?
Victry "Vixy" Hyzenthlay
>Hmmm... I've been around watching furries for a while now.
Not long enough if you thought this newsgroup did not welcome furry
stories.
>
>They seem to have their own vocabulary.
Subject to your own interpretation. Very inaccurate too.
>
>Like when a furry says 'toleration' he really means 'apathetic acceptance'
You (and the BFs) *believe* so only because said furry(s) won't join you
ranting over the meager things YOU don't like... never mind an individuals
feelings, never mind that THEY have a differing opinion... that they actually
*ENJOY* the fandom... YOU hate it, so everyone else must agree.
>
>Now it seems they're defining 'hate' as 'disagreeing with me'.
Well let's see... you (and the BFs) are defining 'disagreeing' as mindless
trolling, ranting, flaming, belittling and slandering. All of which we have
seen at work here by Burned Furs. So if all that is the way they 'disagree'
with the fandom... what should we look for when they start to hate us? When it
happens, don't forget your kevlar vest when the next Con is in town.
>
>All the BFs want to do is get the sick elements in the fandom
>out of the public eye. What's wrong with that?
THAT much has not met any resistance. Though if you have been *paying
attention* as long as you have 'been around watching furries', you would know
that the most common complaint fans have regarding BFs is that even though their
ideas are sound, their *tactics* stink. Who would NOT agree that making Furry
Fandom more presentable to the public at large is something good for all?
But why should ANYONE agree with BFs labeling those whom they simply
dislike 'sick elements in the fandom'? Why then should ANYONE want to support
BFs clueless trolling, ranting, flaming, belittling and lying about they ones
they dislike in the name of cleaning up the fandom? BFs have picked whom they
don't like and tried to make them seem as vile and despisable as they can,
regardless of facts or truth. Sounds like a campaign of hate to me. Then they
try to tell *everyone* that if they don't support their little campaign, they
are supporting those they despise and will in turn be despised for it. Seeding
dislike for those they don't care for... trying to divide the fandom on that
line... now THAT is spreading hate if anything.
>
>I don't want to know you fuck you dog, horse or plushy. Don't tell me about
>it.
The above sounds like the same baseless rants the BFs make. Not
surprising. So let me put the same question to you as I have the BFs... tell us
where you see that happening instead of implying we must just believe you,
because we don't. I have yet to see anyone talking about all of that openly
here. And if silence is consent... my dear Mark (and all the vocal BFs here)...
your rant truely *is* baseless.
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Victry 'love long and perspire; Vixy' Hyzenthlay
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Elf Sternberg
coy...@brionne.cyberverse.com (J.M.L.) writes:
> You're much too kind. Next FC I'm buying -you- the Guiness.
There was Guiness at FC??? At something less than $20 a can!??
Mark Loggins
In article <dYUO2.5882$_m5.14...@newsread1-mx.centuryinter.net>, "Lost
Number" <realv...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Similar statements could be made about racial equality, homosexuality,
> women's rights, and zoophilia.
> You aren't proving anything.
>
> *Muke!
Let's play 'What doesn't belong in this list'... Racial equality,
homosexuality, women's rights, zoophilia.. Hmmm...this is a toughie.
You do realize you're undermining the other things mentioned when you
list your pretty little euphanism for beastiality with them, right? No
one but furries and beastialists think fucking housepets and livestock
an acceptable behavior. Proof? Come out publically as someone who gets
off on animals and see what happens to you.
--Random
Kyle L. Webb
>
> It wasn't always like that...
> ...No, first they had to come from little towns with strange names like:
> Smegma
> Spasmodic
> Frog
> and the Far-Flung Isles of Langerhans
But, who were they?
We were small angry men with hairy faces and burning feet.
We were running away from poverty, intolerance, the law and the army.
And we took to them.
And they took to us.
And what do you think they took?
Mark Loggins
In article <7ei9sn$gft$1...@crucigera.fysh.org>, "Victry \"Vixy\" Hyzenthlay"
<n...@na.net> wrote:
> Mark Loggins wrote in message <7ebhhq$qt3$1...@crucigera.fysh.org>...
>>Hmmm... I've been around watching furries for a while now.
>
> Not long enough if you thought this newsgroup did not welcome furry
> stories.
Ahem. Unwelcomed by me. I was speaking for myself. But you never let the
facts get in your way, so whatever
>
>>
>>They seem to have their own vocabulary.
>
> Subject to your own interpretation. Very inaccurate too.
Sure it is. You're tolerating my differing opinion now, aren't you?
>>
>>Like when a furry says 'toleration' he really means 'apathetic acceptance'
>
> You (and the BFs) *believe* so only because said furry(s) won't join you
> ranting over the meager things YOU don't like... never mind an individuals
> feelings, never mind that THEY have a differing opinion... that they actually
> *ENJOY* the fandom... YOU hate it, so everyone else must agree.
Why am I being lumped in with the BFs? Sure it's easier to shoot at a
targets when they're all lump together, but I am NOT a BF. And if anyone
here gets their feelings hurt over something *I* said, it's not my fault.
Letting the words of a stranger is a good sign of emotional issues. You
shouldn't be here, you should be in therapy. And I don't hate anything.
But feel free to put more words in my mouth.
>>
>>Now it seems they're defining 'hate' as 'disagreeing with me'.
>
> Well let's see... you (and the BFs) are defining 'disagreeing' as
mindless
> trolling, ranting, flaming, belittling and slandering. All of which we have
> seen at work here by Burned Furs. So if all that is the way they 'disagree'
> with the fandom... what should we look for when they start to hate us? When
it
> happens, don't forget your kevlar vest when the next Con is in town.
Well, this thread was started with a pretty obvious troll. It was a rant and
belittled. I won't use the word slander since I know what it means and
opinions are never slanderous. And, um, Vixy? The furries have responded a
lot more severly than I or the BFs ever did. And if you think this petty
crap is hatred, you've no idea what hatred really is.
>
>>
>>All the BFs want to do is get the sick elements in the fandom
>>out of the public eye. What's wrong with that?
>
> THAT much has not met any resistance. Though if you have been *paying
> attention* as long as you have 'been around watching furries', you would know
> that the most common complaint fans have regarding BFs is that even though
their
> ideas are sound, their *tactics* stink. Who would NOT agree that making Furry
> Fandom more presentable to the public at large is something good for all?
Tactics? Oh, like how that anti-bf hacked the BF webring? Or the flaming
you're doing right now. Tactics like that? Don't claim the high road when
you're wallowing in the mire with everyone else.
> But why should ANYONE agree with BFs labeling those whom they simply
> dislike 'sick elements in the fandom'? Why then should ANYONE want to support
> BFs clueless trolling, ranting, flaming, belittling and lying about they ones
> they dislike in the name of cleaning up the fandom? BFs have picked whom they
> don't like and tried to make them seem as vile and despisable as they can,
> regardless of facts or truth. Sounds like a campaign of hate to me. Then
they
> try to tell *everyone* that if they don't support their little campaign, they
> are supporting those they despise and will in turn be despised for it.
Seeding
> dislike for those they don't care for... trying to divide the fandom on that
> line... now THAT is spreading hate if anything.
Welp, I'm not a BF, so I couldn't tell ya.
>
>>
>>I don't want to know you fuck you dog, horse or plushy. Don't tell me about
>>it.
>
> The above sounds like the same baseless rants the BFs make. Not
> surprising. So let me put the same question to you as I have the BFs... tell
us
> where you see that happening instead of implying we must just believe you,
> because we don't. I have yet to see anyone talking about all of that openly
> here. And if silence is consent... my dear Mark (and all the vocal BFs
here)...
> your rant truely *is* baseless.
Where? On the web. Search for 'zoo' and see what you get. On tv. That
British show which exposed CF.. How about the Loaded article where zoofreaks
spoke out. If you don't see people crowing all over about how their sexual
conquests invovling housepets, livestock and animate objects, you need to
pull your head out of your ass and look. It's all over. There is webpages
smeared like fecal matter across the net of people fucking animals and
plushes. And they all say FURRY all over them. Baseless? Not at all.
--Random
Dr. Cat
: Have you perhaps considered that the problem may not be what you say, but how
: you are saying it?
Nah, I don't think so. Remember this is the group with the "manifesto"
on their page with inspiring, attractive phrases like "should be
mercilessly ostracized and laughed at with maximum cruelty" in it.
There's a lesson to be learned here, from all the things they've said in
response to the frequent complaints about them and misunderstandings
about what they do and do not intend.
It isn't the responsibility of a movement to get across their views
clearly, or to avoid inflammatory language that will keep many people
from even trying to find out what their views are.
It's the duty of the general public to make an effort to shrug off any
rude statements the group makes, to seek out large amounts of their
writings and archived discussions, and to carefully figure out what the
movement is really about, as opposed to what it might seem to be like
upon first glance. Why should we expect them to try to make that "first
glance" seem the same way they want the movement itself to be received,
when we could save them the trouble by doing hours of careful reading and
pondering? :X)
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(Disclaimer: Burned Furs don't actually use "maximum cruelty", that's
just rhetoric to make a point (about werewolf dudes) or something.
And besides, on tuesdays they get to set their cruelty dial down to 80%
of maximum in order to take a little well deserved rest and help save up
their energy for the big Flamin' Friday rituals.)
(Disclaimer disclaimer: I just kid them because I love them so. Mwah!)
(Bonus disclaimer: I bet you good money that none of their core of
most-vocal members will ever post here and say "Yeah you're right, we
really DO present a negative public image with all this insulting and
'maximum cruelty' talk, and you're also right that it really IS a bad idea."
Not never nohow. Instead they will continue to make excuses which can be
divided roughly into the "the impression we give people is not neither as
bad as you say" category, and the "and besides, negativity is an essential
tactic when you're dealing with something that's really really icky"
category. Not once will it be admitted here that they might not have
chosen the best approach, because to do so would be tantamount to
addmitting that some people they strongly dislike and have been arguing
with were maybe right about something. Admitting that someone you
dislike was right about something is so galling to most folks, that
even if one of them DOES become convinced that being rude was a bad idea,
they'll probably never publically admit it, ever.)
(P.S. Being rude really IS a bad idea, generally speaking, for anybody
keeping score at home who lost track of that critical point. So is
"maximum cruelty". Just say no. Or just say snow. Like snow cone.
Mmmmm, snow cone. Do you have that in pina colada flavor???)
StukaFox
: (Bonus disclaimer: I bet you good money that none of their core of
: most-vocal members will ever post here and say "Yeah you're right, we
: really DO present a negative public image with all this insulting and
: 'maximum cruelty' talk, and you're also right that it really IS a bad idea."
I fully agree with you, even 'tho my opinion doesn't count as
I'm not a BF.
I also agree with the people who've said there should be a constructive
agenda.
The message is out, and people understand that the movement is there.
It's time for the next step, which is converting potential to work.
StukaFox
Dr. Cat
: > complain that the spaces you used to like aren't for you anymore.
: > That's life.
: Leave? Me? Why should I leave a scene I feel has some problems and want to fix?
: Because you say so?
: Who died and made you king? Because that's what "If you don't like it, leave"
: means.
You know... I've seen "If you don't like it, leave" before. Not just
here, but in any group or hobby where somebody has a lot of complaints
about how things are. And that line "If you don't like it, leave" never
seems to go over very well. People don't like being told that.
Well ok. I'll try to learn from that and do better.
Hey! You guys over there! "If you don't like it, stay!"
Hmmm, what are they saying?
"Damn you, Dr. Cat! How DARE you say that we should stay involved in
things we don't like! Just so YOU can avoid being ragged on for that
unpopular 'leave if you don't like it' line? For YOUR convenience you
want to force us stay involved in things we dislike and suffer the
displeasure of it? You've got a lot of nerve! Screw you, I hope you
get stuck staying around things you don't like alla time too!"
DANG. That didn't work at all. Well shoot.
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(Disclaimer: "If you don't like it, um, stay or go according to which you
personally prefer to do. In fact, do likewise if you DO like it also.")
(Disclaimer rebuttal: Piss on you, oh flaming fart nicknamed after a
physician and a common household pet! You have no right to insist I act
according to my own preferences! If I choose to deliberately do the
OPPOSITE of what I really want because I have a perverse nature, that's
none of your damned business! Or I could decide based on the roll of
some dice or the spin of a spinner rather than weighing my own preference
into the decision in any way! May you be tortured by thousands of
vicious demons for all eternity for even suggesting the possibility of me
forgoing such choices in favor of doing as YOU say I should do!)
(There's just no pleasing some people. But with a bucket of chocolate
syrup, scuba flippers, a snorkel, a trapeze, and 8 hours of free time,
you can at least make a pretty good try at it.)
Dr. Cat
: >>This land is made of mud
: >>This land has lots of everything
: >>For me and Elmer Fudd. . ."
: >>
: >
: >"This land has lots of trousers
: >And pussycats to eat them
: >When the sun goes down."
: It wasn't always like that...
: ...No, first they had to come from little towns with strange names like:
: Smegma
: Spasmodic
: Frog
: and the Far-Flung Isles of Langerhans
But who were they?
We were (Oh, look!) small angry men,
with hair faces and burning feet.
We were running away from poverty,
intolerance, the law, and the army.
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(Disclaimer: A couple months after getting that album, it occurred to me
to listen to side 2 because IT might be funny ALSO!)
Elf Sternberg
"Mark Loggins" <sph...@crl.com> writes:
>Let's play 'What doesn't belong in this list'... Racial equality,
>homosexuality, women's rights, zoophilia.. Hmmm...this is a toughie.
>You do realize you're undermining the other things mentioned when you
>list your pretty little euphanism for beastiality with them, right?
You do realize that your comment is *exactly* like those made
twenty years ago about homosexuals, and forty years ago for mixed-
race relationships?
Times change. The only people who have any imaginable moral
right to complain about guys boffing their animals are those people
who have already stopped eating and wearing animals and animal
products themselwes. And usually those people have enough clues to
realize that meat-eating and fur-wearing are far more prevalent and
more serious sources of animal cruelty than the occasional
interspecies orgasm.
Get over it.
M. Mitchell Marmel
Chris Johnson wrote:
>
> In article <dwylfin-0704...@1cust76.tnt20.chi5.da.uu.net>,
> dwy...@usa.net (Richard de Wylfin) wrote:
> And PussyCats To Eat Them When The Sun Goooes Doooownnnn!"
That's right, buddy. Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in
Washington, DC.
-MMM-
"Ralph Spoilsport Motors..."
T. Woolfe
wrote:
>BoggsArt wrote:
>
>>
>> It wasn't always like that...
>> ...No, first they had to come from little towns with strange names like:
>> Smegma
>> Spasmodic
>> Frog
>> and the Far-Flung Isles of Langerhans
>
>But, who were they?
>
>We were small angry men with hairy faces and burning feet.
>We were running away from poverty, intolerance, the law and the army.
>
>And we took to them.
>And they took to us.
>
>And what do you think they took?
>
Oil from canada
Gold from Mexico
Geese from the neighbors back yard
BOOM BOOM
Corn from the indians
Dakota from the indians
Tobacco from the indians
New Jersey from the indians
New Hampshire from the indians
New England from the indians
New Delhi from the indians
INDONESIA FOR THE INDONESIANS
yes. and Veterans Day
BRRouhahahahahah Da woof knows them Allllll
be afraid, very afraid
T.
T. Woolfe
>On 08 Apr 1999 09:40:47 PDT, "Kyle L. Webb" <hart...@concentric.net>
>wrote:
>
>>BoggsArt wrote:
>>
That's all right Pablo I have an errector set.
J.M.L.
: In article <92354094...@rodelo.cyberverse.com>
: coy...@brionne.cyberverse.com (J.M.L.) writes:
: > You're much too kind. Next FC I'm buying -you- the Guiness.
: There was Guiness at FC??? At something less than $20 a can!??
Hell yeah! Too bad you missed it. This was the first Funny Animal con
where I actually got drunk. I mean, for a good reason that is.
Mark Loggins
In article <3R_O2.528$Dz5.3...@elnws01.ce.mediaone.net>, "Snowfox"
<sno...@pobox.com> wrote:
> *laugh* Stop that! Stop that stop that stop that!
>
> I'll be Brian. I'll be "that guy". I'll be Snowfox or Snow. But no more "Mr.
> McGroarty" - everyone keeps doing that in this thread, and you're making me
> start to feel *old*, Mr. Number et al!
>
> Feh! Do it again, and I'll find a way to give ya fleas! >:p :)
How about 'that guy that trolls burned furs'?
--Random
Mark Loggins
In article <7ej2be$r67$1...@brokaw.wa.com>, e...@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
wrote:
> In article <7eil8b$ovr$1...@crucigera.fysh.org>
> "Mark Loggins" <sph...@crl.com> writes:
>
>>Let's play 'What doesn't belong in this list'... Racial equality,
>>homosexuality, women's rights, zoophilia.. Hmmm...this is a toughie.
>>You do realize you're undermining the other things mentioned when you
>>list your pretty little euphanism for beastiality with them, right?
>
> You do realize that your comment is *exactly* like those made
> twenty years ago about homosexuals, and forty years ago for mixed-
> race relationships?
Uh, you do see the inherent differences in the relationship between any
two adult consenting humans and the relationship between a human and an
animal, right? They're not the same.
> Times change. The only people who have any imaginable moral
> right to complain about guys boffing their animals are those people
> who have already stopped eating and wearing animals and animal
> products themselwes. And usually those people have enough clues to
> realize that meat-eating and fur-wearing are far more prevalent and
> more serious sources of animal cruelty than the occasional
> interspecies orgasm.
Well, here in the real world, humans are omnivores. They've evolved to
consume the flesh of other animals as well as vegatable matter. Therefore
eatting flesh is natural and wholesome activity. And if you're gonna kill
and eat the animal, why not wear its skin? Two very natural and logical
things to do. Having sex with animals is neither. It's always been the
perogative of the loser of the world who've been refused sex with other
humans. Someone who is a different race or the same gender as you are
is STILL human. Sex with them is natural, more/less. To compare that
to having sex with animals. I don't think cruelity is nessarily a part
of the reasons not to do it. It's not cruel to have sex with someone
in a coma either. But it's still a form of rape and it's still should be
counted as a sex crime with all the stigma and punishment associated
with it.
> Get over it.
Sorry, my sanity isn't as easy to shake as your seems to have been.
> Elf
--Random
Lost Number
news:3R_O2.528$Dz5.3...@elnws01.ce.mediaone.net...
> > or not it actually acts it out--it will have the problems McGroarty was
>
>
> I'll be Brian. I'll be "that guy". I'll be Snowfox or Snow. But no more
"Mr.
> McGroarty" - everyone keeps doing that in this thread, and you're making me
> start to feel *old*, Mr. Number et al!
Well, I scrolled up and I only saw "Brian McGroarty", and Brians come a dime
a dozen. =P
> Feh! Do it again, and I'll find a way to give ya fleas! >:p :)
Just try it! Mhaha ;)
*Muke!
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Lost Number
Care to share a clue?
*Muke, easily confused.
Lost Number
news:7ej2be$r67$1...@brokaw.wa.com...
> In article <7eil8b$ovr$1...@crucigera.fysh.org>
> "Mark Loggins" <sph...@crl.com> writes:
>
> >Let's play 'What doesn't belong in this list'... Racial equality,
> >homosexuality, women's rights, zoophilia.. Hmmm...this is a toughie.
> >You do realize you're undermining the other things mentioned when you
> >list your pretty little euphanism for beastiality with them, right?
>
> You do realize that your comment is *exactly* like those made
> twenty years ago about homosexuals, and forty years ago for mixed-
> race relationships?
My point exactly! :)
*Muke!
Charles Groark
"T. Woolfe" wrote:
Show off.
Charlie
Charles Groark
Lost Number wrote:
> Okay, this thread has turned positively surreal.
>
> Care to share a clue?
Firesign Theater, late Sixties, early Seventies. "How Can You Be Two
Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All..." IIRC, that is.
Put on this flannel workshirt and tell it like it was!
Charlie
(Should we start another one? "If you push something hard enough it
will fall over." Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law.)
Charles Groark
"M. Mitchell Marmel" wrote:
> "Ralph Spoilsport Motors..."
Here in the city of... Emphasema.
"Get thee behind me!"
"What's wrong, Reverend?"
"Just a little argument with my co-pilot..."
Charlie
Mhari Lindhaven
Number" <realv...@bigfoot.com> writes:
> Okay, this thread has turned positively surreal.
>
> Care to share a clue?
>
> *Muke, easily confused.
Ah, someone else who hasn't been introduced to the Firesign Theatre.
Mhari
(reading Robot's Rules of Order and waiting for someone to squeeze the fox)
Lost Number
news:7ejcs8$ap0$1...@crucigera.fysh.org...
> > In article <7eil8b$ovr$1...@crucigera.fysh.org>
> > "Mark Loggins" <sph...@crl.com> writes:
> >
> >>Let's play 'What doesn't belong in this list'... Racial equality,
> >>homosexuality, women's rights, zoophilia.. Hmmm...this is a toughie.
> >>You do realize you're undermining the other things mentioned when you
> >>list your pretty little euphanism for beastiality with them, right?
> >
> > You do realize that your comment is *exactly* like those made
> > twenty years ago about homosexuals, and forty years ago for mixed-
> > race relationships?
>
> two adult consenting humans and the relationship between a human and an
> animal, right? They're not the same.
The point is, this has not always been true. The public's idea of "what's
moral" is _variable_, not _absolute_.
For example, I live in an area (in Tennessee) where homosexuality gets an
instant 'perversion' label.
I _could_ say "Uh, you do see the inherent differences in the relationship
between any two adult consenting humans of different genders and the
relationship between two humans of the same gender, right? They're not the
same."
Your morals are not built on the same stuff as my morals, Mother Theresa's
morals, Bill Clinton's morals, Burned Fur's morals, Kibo's morals, or Bill
Gates's morals[1]. And the stuff we build our morals on is arbitrary and
liable to change, unless we belong to a conservative religion. =P
*Muke!
[1] I left out Nazi morals because I couldn't think of how to phrase the
subclause of Godwin's law that says intentional invocation of it is invalid.
Snowfox
news:8PaP2.6034$_m5.1...@newsread1-mx.centuryinter.net...
> Snowfox <sno...@pobox.com> wrote in message
> news:3R_O2.528$Dz5.3...@elnws01.ce.mediaone.net...
> > > or not it actually acts it out--it will have the problems McGroarty
was
> >
> > *laugh* Stop that! Stop that stop that stop that!
> >
> > I'll be Brian. I'll be "that guy". I'll be Snowfox or Snow. But no more
> "Mr.
> > McGroarty" - everyone keeps doing that in this thread, and you're making
me
> > start to feel *old*, Mr. Number et al!
>
> Well, I scrolled up and I only saw "Brian McGroarty", and Brians come a
dime
> a dozen. =P
We most certainly do not. Those are the cheap tofu-based Bryans. We're about
more on par with crab meat.
> > Feh! Do it again, and I'll find a way to give ya fleas! >:p :)
>
> Just try it! Mhaha ;)
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Snowfox
> ----------
> In article <3R_O2.528$Dz5.3...@elnws01.ce.mediaone.net>, "Snowfox"
> <sno...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I'll be Brian. I'll be "that guy". I'll be Snowfox or Snow. But no more
"Mr.
> > McGroarty" - everyone keeps doing that in this thread, and you're making
me
> > start to feel *old*, Mr. Number et al!
> >
>
Wow - talk about the pot calling the kettle black... this from Random?
I had a valid point to get across, and quite a few thought provoking
responses came of it before the thread wandered as all do. I don't take the
approach of being banal and rotten the way certain other furs do.
Snowfox
StukaFox <stuk...@shell9.ba.best.com> wrote in message
news:370cf4b3$0$2...@nntp1.ba.best.com...
Amen! Amen amen amen amen amen! And AMEN, StukaFox! =)
Amen!
Chris Johnson
wrote:
> BRRouhahahahahah Da woof knows them Allllll
> be afraid, very afraid
> T.
*evilgrin*
There's nothing left- to say...
And no-one's left to write an ending,
Jinx_tigr, playing hardball >:)
(aka Chris Johnson)
(actually, if that doesn't work, maybe the videos will!)
Mhari Lindhaven
(BoggsArt) writes:
>>That's all right Pablo I have an errector set.
>
> ...Who is he talking to?...And how does he make his voice DO that...?
<in a very muffled voice> We can't talk here.
Mhari
(still at the old Same place)