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People are still talking about Chewfox, so I might as well..
16 years ago
weigh in.
The bottom line of what she did was wrong and there are no two ways about it. I will now explain why that is.
As much as people don't want to admit it, when she appeared on national television to talk about furries and being a furry, yes she was representing the fandom. When you go on TV and you talk about the company you work for, your religion, hobbies, fetishes, etc, you are representing that group. You become an envoy and a temporary public image for that group.
When representing a large and varied group, especially one with a dubious public image, you have to watch your words, speak carefully, and mind your Ps and Qs. Chewfox did not, she spoke in broad sweeping terms making carpet generalizations about the fandom as she spoke about her kinks and fetishes to a national audience. Her crime is that she had zero discretion when talking about a group of that already has public image issues, and not prefacing what she said with, "now what I'm into is this, but not all furries are", or "These are my kinks, but I can not talk about the fandom as a whole." She spoke very matter of factly, and made it sound as if all furries own fursuits and fuck in them and did not for a moment attempt to clarify the fact that only about 18% of all furries actually own fursuits and only a fraction of that 18% would willingly jizz on their 500-8000 dollar investment.
She compounded this by getting self-righteous and uppity when confronted about this by an angry fandom. She also parroted threats back at people waving her boyfriend in front of her like an angry guard dog that she was ready to take off its leash.
There is also just plain not thinking the situation through. You want to show furries in a positive light, so you appear on national television on a show which the topic revolves around crazy fetishes and bedroom antics? It's sheer brainlessness.
I'm willing to say that she probably had her heart in the right place, but merely was catastrophically stupid about how she perused the situation. She gets a pass on the fact that there was no malice to her actions, but also loses points in being absolutely unapologetic in the aftermath.
People went apeshit about the entire situation, and rightfully so, it's been a huge clusterfuck and yes the fandom has taken another blow that is going to take a while to get over. Yes people did over-react, nobody deserved to be threatened or wished dead, but to a point the anger was justified.
But those of you that think anybody that got mad at Chewfox is a big asshole, and Chewfox if you believe you did a great job, I would like you to look at the faces and reactions of both Tyra and the audience in that episode during the Furry segment. Then I'd like you to take in the fact that fursuiters have LOST jobs because of that episode and repeat yourselves. As a matter of fact, go find one of those fursuiters that lost their job, they shouldn't be too hard to find, and look them straight in the eye as you tell them that everybody is being a bunch of over-reacting assholes. Chewfox you just do the same and try to tell them that you did a great job.
The bottom line of what she did was wrong and there are no two ways about it. I will now explain why that is.
As much as people don't want to admit it, when she appeared on national television to talk about furries and being a furry, yes she was representing the fandom. When you go on TV and you talk about the company you work for, your religion, hobbies, fetishes, etc, you are representing that group. You become an envoy and a temporary public image for that group.
When representing a large and varied group, especially one with a dubious public image, you have to watch your words, speak carefully, and mind your Ps and Qs. Chewfox did not, she spoke in broad sweeping terms making carpet generalizations about the fandom as she spoke about her kinks and fetishes to a national audience. Her crime is that she had zero discretion when talking about a group of that already has public image issues, and not prefacing what she said with, "now what I'm into is this, but not all furries are", or "These are my kinks, but I can not talk about the fandom as a whole." She spoke very matter of factly, and made it sound as if all furries own fursuits and fuck in them and did not for a moment attempt to clarify the fact that only about 18% of all furries actually own fursuits and only a fraction of that 18% would willingly jizz on their 500-8000 dollar investment.
She compounded this by getting self-righteous and uppity when confronted about this by an angry fandom. She also parroted threats back at people waving her boyfriend in front of her like an angry guard dog that she was ready to take off its leash.
There is also just plain not thinking the situation through. You want to show furries in a positive light, so you appear on national television on a show which the topic revolves around crazy fetishes and bedroom antics? It's sheer brainlessness.
I'm willing to say that she probably had her heart in the right place, but merely was catastrophically stupid about how she perused the situation. She gets a pass on the fact that there was no malice to her actions, but also loses points in being absolutely unapologetic in the aftermath.
People went apeshit about the entire situation, and rightfully so, it's been a huge clusterfuck and yes the fandom has taken another blow that is going to take a while to get over. Yes people did over-react, nobody deserved to be threatened or wished dead, but to a point the anger was justified.
But those of you that think anybody that got mad at Chewfox is a big asshole, and Chewfox if you believe you did a great job, I would like you to look at the faces and reactions of both Tyra and the audience in that episode during the Furry segment. Then I'd like you to take in the fact that fursuiters have LOST jobs because of that episode and repeat yourselves. As a matter of fact, go find one of those fursuiters that lost their job, they shouldn't be too hard to find, and look them straight in the eye as you tell them that everybody is being a bunch of over-reacting assholes. Chewfox you just do the same and try to tell them that you did a great job.
Once again, I am totally behind on everything that is happening in the fandom...
I am ashamed of myself... *Looks downward.*
Is there any chance that i can find a clip of this on youtube?
But, WOW!!
Why did they let them just sum up "Furries" Like that!?
We seriously need to make official sub-genres for specific furries so that this kind of generalization may be avoided in the future.
but it IS possible to look LESS like a dick.
James above is right, regrettably - a lot of the things we do are inherently bizarre. Have you seen my gallery? It's madness. That goes for any fetish. But I think the real problem - the reason that we hide in this little community and get so upset whenever the media get their hands on it - is shown in that section in the clip, the attitudes of people towards anything that's different from them.