Just heard about the Tyra Banks show. Saw the clip in question online: http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=66909

Firstly I want to express my overall disgust that this kind of show exists. My god, what drivel! No wonder the average US citizen gets a reputation for having the IQ equivalent to a brick.

I would also like to express my delight at having a couple of furries confident enough to show up on a TV show of some kind, even if it was in this context.

Now then, I can understand why furries are generally quite reactionary towards criticism because there is a lot of it and a lot of misrepresentation. However, the over reactions to tend to fan the flames a bit. This causes more criticism and more reaction.

I would like to undertake a study into this effect if I could somehow devise a numerical measure for this. It seems to be an interesting example of feedback loops and chaos theory. TV shows seem to provide perturbations although I would think they are indeed related to the whole cycle...

I suspect most of the drama is due to the large amount of confused 13-17 year old kids finding their way to the fandom and the highly socially inept among us making prominent entries on the web and statements in other places. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

Contempt, expressing his contempt.