This Tyra thing
16 years ago
General
For those of you who don't know, two of the more perverted furries went onto the Tyra Banks show and took it upon themselves to represent the culture as a whole.
Okay, I have no say in this because I don't consider myself a major part of the furry community, BUT I DO think that saying things like "Lets kill them" or "They deserve to be shot" are a bit extreme. I am NOT defending these people, in my opinion, they had ZERO right to represent an entire culture without gaining some approval from the community at large on what they would say and how they would represent furries. You are a community, a close knit one at that. All you need to do is black list them, banish them, give them the cold shoulder. Don't let them on any of your online communities, do not allow them into your conventions, do not invite them to your get together. Simply shun them and ignore them, and they will have to live with the fact that they brought their own isolation onto themselves. They had no right to represent the culture at large without letting a group of the community know. It was like two gay guys going on air and sharing with the world what they do in bed. Not what good they do for the community, not how they influence the art community, and nothing about how they are just like everyone else. It's rude, and uncalled for. So keep it civil guys, I know you are mad, but there are more civilized ways of taking care of things.
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Tyra is just verbaly attacking furrys because gays are popular and some studio executive wants tv programming that is insulting to the human species as a whole.
About the only person I know of with that kind of experience is Uncle Kage. And, if his panels at this year's AC are to be believed, he's VERY good at getting the public to leave us alone. The rest of us should go about our business if asked.