~ Furries on CSI ~

I was watching a CSI rerun the other day and it was about rl furries. Now I really thought furries were just an SL thing. I really didn't know that people actually dress up as animals irl on a regular basis and it was quite an eye opener. One furry got mad that another furry was messing around with his female furry and killed him. Then he found out the female furry was actually a male furry because he had never seen him without the furry outfit on. He was quite upset. There was a big furry convention and there was lots of yiffing or something going on. It was quite an episode and all I could think about was SL. Thought I'd share heh.

So, CSI is about stereotyping?

Well, CSI is pretty bad at only hitting the more "sensationalistic" aspects of any subculture they touch on; as I understand it, relatively few furries are fursuiters, whereas the show makes it seem all of 'em are. But, y'know, "grown people dressing in animal suits" makes better TV than "fairly well-adjusted people who like to pretend they are an animal/feel they are an animal deep down", or "some guy who kinda liked Disney's Robin Hood".

Being a role-playing gamer, I see the same thing all too often. "So, like, you walk around in steam tunnels/dress up like a vampire and stuff?" Sheesh.

I like CSI as a rule (mainly cos I think the men are fit) but I did think that episode was le pants and didn't portray the community well.

DAMN CSI!

(except the fit men)

ooh, my fav episode of CSI, heh I love the series over here,
It didn't really make me think of SL, but it was a episode to renember,

In amongst itself it did make somewhat of a good point, furrys are animals, but another thing is, Humans are animals too, not that long ago we evolved from such and such,

Today this day and age we are split into races, one eager to outdo the other, or at least thats what I catch on glimse whenever the news channel is on, only few races decide to smartin up, Glared at because we are diffirent, but we are very much the same, when we are babies we crawl on our hands and knee's, when we are kids we stumble to our feet, when we are children/teenagers/adult's we walk on our feet, and when we are elders we walk with a third leg as to a cane in the end our mental state is crawling on its knee's begging for mercy as our heart stops, our blood runs exactly the same, if you explode 5 people from 5 diffirent races their blood splatter will still be the same red liquid.
(Not that i'm expecting anyone to go out of their way to go kill people to figure this out, Duuuh )

when acidents happen we change our lives to addapt to our inhability, but that does not make us diffirent from the next human being, every single day, every hour on the moment new life is brought into this world, at the same time a life disapears, also known as death,

but with all the greed and lust for power in the world I don't see how anything will change, no one will take a step forwards and admit to their wrong-doing because that would be a opening for attack, such as the world presides it,

But anyways with that aside it was a pretty awesome look into the world of wearing a costume and making out, and dieing by ipacac oil and a hunter,

The episode was more a series of unfortunate events than a crime investigation. And it equated fursuiters with the totality of furrydom, which was a disservice. But it may have handled it in a slightly (and I do mean slightly) better fashion than television as a whole handles the less mainstream aspects of sexuality. Consider how topics like bondage or crossdressing are either played for laughs or are symptoms of homicidal depravity on most television shows. Witness the Law and Order episode in which a transexual murders a man to keep her fiancee from learning her genetic gender. There was some attempt to portray her sympathetically, but the message remains the same: people who are different are strange, probably dangerous, and if not dangerous then ok to ridicule.

It was pretty much the same for gays and lesbians, until shows like Showtime's Tales of the City started portraying whole people rather than cardboard cutouts of stock characters.

I don't know if furries will ever elicit more than an uneasy chuckle from the media and the outside world, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Bah. This whole thread was already done.

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haha I was just searching for that thread too!
you beat me to it!

I seem to recall a monte python skit that spoofed drug culture documentaries, but instead of drugs it was people dressing up and acting like cats... I'm going to have to find that episode, its stuck in my head now.

Bah back, didn't know

Heh heh heh... you should see the one on midgets.

It was mice, actually. They ate cheese, ran up clocks, avoided the farmer's wife... the works.


Furries predate SL by a long ways. They actually predate teh Internets, though it wasn't until they could get online and contact each other that it really took off.

Much like some people at anime or comic book conventions dress up as a character, there are people that like to wear fursuits. They are a small percentage, and not everyone in the fandom does it or even understands it. The media, however, has absolutely no interest in anyone that doesn't wear a fursuit every day, and assume that the only reason to be involved must have something to do with sex.

I just thought it was an interesting episode because it made me think of seeing the furries on SL and I hadn't ever seen it before on tv. I didn't think before seeing that episode that people wore fursuits irl except at Halloween. Apparently I've lived a pretty sheltered life hehe. Not saying it's bad or weird, to each his own ya know?