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Oh Dr. Phil.
12 years ago
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https://twitter.com/DieselGShep
^Follow Me Yo^ I'll try to keep this from being overtly long, but news has been circulating of Dr. Phil wanting to bring closet furries and their either unsuspecting or non-understanding families to the show to talk it out on national television. Like most occurrences with national television and furries, barring from the occasional diamond in the rough, it always come with the intentions of being good but ultimately gets veered into a smear campaign or just it being so cringe-worthy that it does none of us any good.
So why does this feel like just another "Oh God why are they doing this" campaign? Honestly, because Dr. Phil is playing out being a Furry as a medical condition, which...I mean I guess I could see why they could run that. I'll throw this out first: in no way do I believe I was an animal in my previous life, or do I believe that me and German Shepherds have any psychological or pathological or spiritual connection; I understand I am a human and I dress up in a dog costume and peruse around hotels and dance in front of live audiences, I love the furry community and everyone here. But I know there are more than a few people in this fandom that DO believe that they were a wolf or bird or dragon in their past life, or they're a wolf trapped in a human's body: and that's exactly who they will shoot for.
Because for a non-furry who doesn't associate themselves with the fandom, we all looking fucking crazy, there's no two ways about it. And who doesn't love watching crazy people deal with their issues on national television? You've got shows like Jerry Springer and Maury, which either had decades of success or are still continuing their ratings success into the present day, and not to talk about the tens of hundreds of reality shows plaguing the networks over the past 10-15 years. In the big marketing networks' eyes: we are fucking paydirt.
But I see a lot of furries who get what's going on here: they want a martyr from the furry community to say that what they are is a problem and YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME MOM I'M A WOLF AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, and people who have seen what happens on shows like The Tyra Banks show: this shit gets you ostracized in the community, and as a welcoming community as the furry community is, it can be really mean when you make it look bad. So I'm happy to see an overwhelming, "Yeah, nooo..." from the furry community to this.
But come on. This is television. You don't have to get a real furry for Dr. Phil to run this show. Which is really where I see this happening. Some dude is gonna take a nice paycheck to call himself Slevana the red/black Dire Wolf with a love for Game of Thrones or some stupid shit like that. Anything to make us look as entertaining and weird and repulsive as possible to the middle-aged community right?
So basically: Furries aren't dumb enough to fall for this, but actors are.
So why does this feel like just another "Oh God why are they doing this" campaign? Honestly, because Dr. Phil is playing out being a Furry as a medical condition, which...I mean I guess I could see why they could run that. I'll throw this out first: in no way do I believe I was an animal in my previous life, or do I believe that me and German Shepherds have any psychological or pathological or spiritual connection; I understand I am a human and I dress up in a dog costume and peruse around hotels and dance in front of live audiences, I love the furry community and everyone here. But I know there are more than a few people in this fandom that DO believe that they were a wolf or bird or dragon in their past life, or they're a wolf trapped in a human's body: and that's exactly who they will shoot for.
Because for a non-furry who doesn't associate themselves with the fandom, we all looking fucking crazy, there's no two ways about it. And who doesn't love watching crazy people deal with their issues on national television? You've got shows like Jerry Springer and Maury, which either had decades of success or are still continuing their ratings success into the present day, and not to talk about the tens of hundreds of reality shows plaguing the networks over the past 10-15 years. In the big marketing networks' eyes: we are fucking paydirt.
But I see a lot of furries who get what's going on here: they want a martyr from the furry community to say that what they are is a problem and YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME MOM I'M A WOLF AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, and people who have seen what happens on shows like The Tyra Banks show: this shit gets you ostracized in the community, and as a welcoming community as the furry community is, it can be really mean when you make it look bad. So I'm happy to see an overwhelming, "Yeah, nooo..." from the furry community to this.
But come on. This is television. You don't have to get a real furry for Dr. Phil to run this show. Which is really where I see this happening. Some dude is gonna take a nice paycheck to call himself Slevana the red/black Dire Wolf with a love for Game of Thrones or some stupid shit like that. Anything to make us look as entertaining and weird and repulsive as possible to the middle-aged community right?
So basically: Furries aren't dumb enough to fall for this, but actors are.
MAH BUDDIES:
This is probably going to be another Tyra Banks fiasco. The fandom will have an aneurysm over it for a few weeks and then forget about it. Granted, the Tyra Banks thing did actually have some real life consequences--furmeets getting booted from places, including my local meet--but with any luck that won't happen again with this. :/
And I agree, the attention span for this will be short, but it never helps, it never does. We'll just have to sit and wait to assess the damage.
a few people to do world news, furry news, cover furmeets globally (like correspondants in other nations or states showing up at cons and stream it live to the show/site), talk about new sites coming up, popular artists and other news, you know?
and furry themed! X3
I would REALLY like to see that
I DO believe that I have the soul of a jaguarundi. It's not something I run my mouth about and has no impact on my professional life.