Thursday, January 15, 2009

Logging on for love...(you losers are going to die alone!)

originalprint 2/12/08

February the 14 th is fast approaching, you had a year to get your stuff straight yet here you sit, Valentine-less yet again.

I know , you almost went on a date, but you had that 40 man raid, and your guild was counting on you. Don't fret, it's not to late for you, you basement dwelling sad hunk of nerd.

There are many options available to get a quick V-day hook up in just under 100 clicks or a hundred dollars.

The key to successful online love is being truthful with your evaluation of yourself. You have to pick a website that matches your unique level of pathetic or weird.

For the basic run of the mill dork, Myspace is your best bet, but be wary as your competing against individuals with actual social skills and possibly charisma.

This might be too much for you, but if you are brave enough to venture into the social network web Myspace is a great way to go.

For those that like their potential dates ethnically categorized you can try BlackPlanet.com, Migente.com or AsianAve.com.

Success on these sites is all about pictures. Pictures for these sites should be taken in your bathroom and in the most awkward angles humanly possible. So if you break mirrors with your smile, or make babies cry you might want to find another way to get that oh-so-elusive-internet cutty.

If you can't handle your own on Myspace there are more desperate means of achieving human contact.

It may take a turn for the weird but Craigslist.org isn't only for buying other people's garage sale leftovers, now you can get the emotionally damaged leftovers of relationships.

The traffic from normal people making purchases create an off chance that you might find a regular good natured miss or fellow that is just open to trying something new.

Of course the majority of people posting are either there looking for email addresses to terrorize or are attention seekers wondering how many responses they'll get.

Sadly half of the posts in the dating section of Craiglist look like this:

Buttsecks?? - m4w - 31

In the back seat of my Kia?

* Location: Samsung Dong

So you might have to do some soul searching and ask yourself how much you really want that V-day sweetie.

Urchins of society aside, it's going to pretty easy to hook up with someone.

Of course after you do the Craiglist.com hook up the only place you'll be able to find a Valentine will be HerpesDating.com.

In the off chance that you can't score someone who can stand to be around you on Cupid day you could dig a little deeper in the bucket of sadness that is the internet dating pool, or perhaps you just have to find a more captive audience.

Sometimes you have to find someone that is amazingly more desperate than yourself, like the incarcerated!

To a woman that hasn't seen any other men than the ones that lock her cell you might seem like quite a catch.

Sadly internet access is forbidden in US correctional institutions but the good people at Meet-An-Inmate.com took the trouble of finding social and non lethal looking inmates that are open to having pen pal relationships.

It will be like one of those old period movies where two lovers have no other correspondence except the postman, the only difference is your sweetie is doing hard time.

Even more convenient for you is the fact the Meet-an-Inmate.com makes sure to tell you when your inmate's parole is up. That way you can skedaddle before the hearing, least this jail bird actually tries to track you down.

Now let's say that even women behind bars want nothing to do with you, no worries, if you can afford an average of 20 to 22.50 dollars a month you can skip the human aspect of a relationship all together.

You only need this valentine to prove to your family that you aren't going to die alone.

Well, why draw another person into your web of lies; just order a relationship, you can buy love with a PayPal account.

With Imaginarygirlfriend.com you can prove something to yourself with out the burden of guilt that you are lying to another human being.

They supply you with picture of your "girlfriend" that you can Photoshop yourself into, hand written letters sprayed with your "girlfriend"'s perfume, panties and some even will leave messages on your answering machine.

Pathetic? Yes.

Weird? Most certainly, but you wanted a valentine right?

Where's the Beef?

origial print: 2/5/08

Long ago, before people had Myspace and camera phones, when someone had a qualm with someone else, they were forced to deal with it face to face, or at least through a convoluted web of other people they've influenced.

That is not so today.

Thanks to the networking power of the internet ruining the life of another person over a minor squabble can be done in the comfort of your own home or in less than five minutes.

Sadly people have gotten wise and many are paying the price, but WHY?

I have never understood why people take things said over the internet to heart.

Message boards and newsgroups have always been, and most likely will always be popular on the internet.

They are one of the easiest ways to connect with people, drawing in people from all walks of life, age ranges and beliefs. It's no wonder that people or "fonts" clash from time to time.

What does leave me bewildered is that fact that some people log off and go to sleep at night angry about what a person they've never met and have no personal ties to, said about them on the internet.

It leaves an even more bitter taste in my mouth when I read about adults acting like catty pre-teen girls and squabble so distastefully and publicly.

In my opinion, there is something wrong with a person that can have actual malice against a figure they've complied in their head from a screen name.

If you can't even be sure what the gender of the person you are e-fighting with is, does it really matter what they say?

Are you really going to drive across the country in a diaper to smack them in the mouth because they pointed out your poor grammar, or made fun of your social standards?

If you've answer "yes" to that question, then you not only need to get off of the 'net, you need to get into a padded room.

When the e-fight stop being entertaining , and let's face it they always start out pretty good, at the end of the day it's sad to see two people that could have been friends have so much hatred for each other.

Even worse when people use the internet against someone they used to call a friend.

I'm sure everyone is now familiar with the case of the Myspace suicide which involved a young girl being tricked by the parents of another girl into thinking a handsome boy liked her, only to kill herself when the adults controlling the fake account berated and ridiculed her.

Sometimes words hurt, even though they shouldn't be taken seriously.

You may never know what kind of impact your words may have on another human being.

What might roll off your back might permanently scar another.

It doesn't take that much effort to dig for embarassing photo of someone as cams malfunction, people make poor choices about what sort of pics to put on Facebook or Myspace, and hell sometimes it "just seemed like a good idea at the time."

Posting those in the right places at the right time can be a pretty effective weapon against another person… but why bother?

Will you feel better at the end of the day?

Will it make the world a better place?

NO.

It usually only escalates situations that could easily be squashed if the two parties talked like civil adults.

Besides…the other person was most likely just in it for the "lulz" anyway.

When old and new media collide

Oringially printed: 1/22/08

Am I the only one that notices just how lazily old media has been piggy backing on new media to try to seem "hip" and "in the know"?

It always comes off like hearing your mother try to use slang properly, alienating and wrong.

Why do respected news organizations find it necessary to write story after story about Second Life, why do I keep on seeing recycled YouTube videos on TV shows.

I remember a time not to long ago when I could turn on a TV and watch a well written show, okay not well written, but it wasn't shot on a grainy cell phone camera.

What I also appreciated is that my disposable entertainment didn't mesh with my TV or movies.

Now there is a parade of movie that looks like they were lifted right off of Break.com.

Even greats like George Romero are falling into this pit. His new movie Diary of the Dead is shot to look like footage caught on a camcorder,While a group of good looking young people talk about their feelings.

Why can't we go back to a time where no one felt that just because they had feelings they were important enough to be heard?

Why can't movies be happy being their own genre without trying to imitate bored college kids with webcams?

The worst is when shows lazily play the same clips all your friends have sent you in secession and call it original. VH1 is one of the biggest offenders with their Web Junk series.

If it's junk then why show it?

Why bother showing the most popular of clips, these are the ones that everyone has seen before.

If anything they can at least strive to show something new or - gasp- make original content.

It doesn't make sense , TV wants to get back viewers lost to online content.How is showing the same content repeatedly, which will only bring more people to the site that originated it, bring viewers back to TV?

While this might break the hearts of all the "webcelebs" out there, but there is a good reason why they are internet famous and not actually famous, this is perfectly explained by the career (or lack there of) of one Miss Tila Tequila.

The things makes one a scream on Myspace doesn't translate well to other facets of entertainment.

Generally making you just plain annoying especially when you can't sing, dance, act or doing anything other than swing on a pole and have oddly shaped implants.

Women of that caliber should stay on the hoods of imported cars and off of my television screen.

Now when mindless entertainment gets lazy I'm annoyed but not as disappointed when respectable news sources fall into the same routine.

Every month or so I catch some news organization that I once respected falling for the hype around Linden Lab's dull and sometimes downright bizarre Second Life.

Second Life is one line joke for most in the MMORPG playing field, if a bunch of ever-virgins aren't taking this seriously why on earth is CNN or MSNBC?

These news organizations are clamoring to classify and report on something that most likely won't even be here in two years. What for?

Even G4TV, a channel that is dedicated to mindless web junk, doesn't want to report on what they called "Second Hype".

Every over hyped report just feeds into the whirlpool of frivolousness that is Second Life. These organizations don't have to pander to this media hungry void.

It seems like every time Linden Labs has a new press release suddenly news outlets care, trying to be the most "in the know" organization.

Well, in actuality those in the know, know that the average Second Life user only spends under fours hours a month online, in fact according to the Yankee Group , global connectivity experts "less than one percent of the total Resident population engages in the site [Second Life] in a regular and sustained fashion."

I have yet to see World of War Craft or GaiaOnline.com written about monthly in economic news.

No matter how you feel about these sites, you can't deny the fact that they are pulling in a lot more unique visitors than Second Life.

Where is the media hype about that? So why aren't they seen as news to the trend hungry?

Just because a company says they have the next big thing are you to just believe them?

Sadly with most news outlets, the answer is , "Yes". Lindon labs is having a parade for every press release that these poor gulible old media heads are eating up. Please.

There's nothing I hate more. An educated consumer acting like an air head.

The video game industry's REAL problems

Observer columnist discusss the role women play in video games- from the good, to the bad, & the ugly

orginally printed: 11/6/07

When I opened the paper to the Life and Leisure section last week, I couldn't help but laugh.

Not because I was at all amused with what I was seeing, but I found that the picture of a half-naked scene chick using two Game Boy Colors as nipple pasties with the caption "a look at the changes in video game culture" reflected more truly to culture than the article that accompanied it.

Of course, I agree that the video game industry is one that only Hollywood can match, bringing entertainment to a level of interactivity that was thought to be impossible 30 years ago. I also think that the representation of women in game and the treatment of women by the industry haven't really changed at all.

The gamer world still remains staunchly misogynist, heterosexist and, for the most part, racially insensitive.

Video games in America, for the most part, are made for the white male palate. Anyone who finds the images and messages of games unsavory are ignored or belittled. I have been a gamer for two decades and I've seen no real changes in the overall mentality of the industry.

From the dawn of gaming, the roles of women have been pretty weak. There is nothing new about the over sexing of women in games. One of the first female protagonists was a hooker, turning tricks in all her eight-bit glory. So I'm not shocked that 20 years later BloodRayne is topless in "Playboy," "The Guy Game" is rewarding you with "Girls Gone Wild"-esque clips and banging a hooker in the back of a stolen car give you health in "Grand Theft Auto 3". It seems that, even with more women working in the industry, things aren't looking up.

I grew up gaming; I beat my first game, "Contra," when I was five alongside my older brother.

I've since had my hands on every Nintendo gaming system, Sega Genesis, Nomad, CD, Game Gear and PlayStation One, Two and Three.

Hell, I even mess with Xbox every now and then.

All while, I've remained a snotty elitist PC gamer.

It is a constant tug of war inside me. There's the part of me that just wants to see what a new graphics engine can do or how an innovation is going to be utilized in the newest game. But there's still a part of me that wonders why I'm paying 60 dollars to see myself be misrepresented.

The older I get and the more advanced technology in games have become, the more I noticed females being poorly represented in games (or not being represented at all).

I remember "Def Jam Vendetta" on the GameCube. I couldn't wait to play this game. All the game magazines were going on and on about the new character customization.

One magazine touted you could make your character look like you no matter what you looked like. I couldn't wait to spend my entire winter break watching myself roundhouse kick Fat Joe in front of a NYC train.

Unfortunately my fantasies were never realized. There was a pretty good character customization tool; you could pick any body type, height and race. Even ethnic hairstyles were available.

But one thing your hero couldn't have was a vagina. All the women in game were girlfriends; they were bimbos who fought each other for your character's interest. You could trade girlfriends like one would a goat or maybe a shiny rock. The highest ranking of the flock was Carmen Electra, and the lowest was Shaniqua… I had in my hands the most innovative fighting game of 2004 and I couldn't enjoy it. I could no longer sit and watch myself be represented as quite literally a sideline ho whose only use is being arm candy and every now and then and picking a fight to win affections.

It's no wonder millions of women gamers flock to gender neutral games like "The Sims."

2006 saw the "Super Mario Bros." franchise's Princess Peach headlining her own game for the first time in the game's series history. Like many women interested in games I was eager to give this game a try, even though it is one of the pricier games available for the DS Lite.

What a disappointment. I was hopping to see the princess stomping goombas and killing boos. What I got was a bi-polar twit flopping around the Mushroom Kingdom crying because a prancing flower touched her.

What kind of message is this sending? Girl power comes by skipping your Zoloft?

Nuking that garbage game and smacking it with a hammer was the only thing that calmed my rage.

I didn't want to trade it in least some unsuspecting parent purchase it for their daughter.

I think in the coming years the video game industry will have to grow up, it will have to realize that it is not a little boys club and it will have to stop downplaying the roles of women.

It's insulting to the intelligence of all gamers.

The video game industry will be in much better shape when it wakes up and realizes that women will be more than happy to give our support and money when they see themselves in games as characters that they would want to be (and not characters that would look good in "Hustler").

Interacial Dating Sites : Full of Crap

This was another article that I cuaght a lot of flack for, but only from people who were angry that I made fun of the name of thier site in the article... well that and I voiced my opinion of how full of crap I thought the majority of them were. As you can imagine that made me quite unpopular. I've since decided that some people are "happy in the matrix" and even if I think something is unhealthy and wierd it makes others happy. So to each their own and lets hope those nutjobs stay off this blog.

original print: 11/6/07

There are thousands of dating sites and forums around. Some started as newsgroups in the early days of Yahoo and AOL. Others are newer to the game offering hot flash sites and of course porn (if you click long enough, all sites link back to porn).

Of these dating sites the most popular and common have been interracial groups.

It seems harmless enough, people uniting in love and fellowship despite the colors of their skin; doing their part to rid the world of injustice and bigotry one passionate union at a time.

Like a Vera Wang wedding dress on a 40-dollar Broad Street hooker, the net can take a good thing and make it bad, very very bad. With names like PollyWannaCracka.com, Aznlover.com and the thankfully now defunct "Mandingo Lovers" [ed. note: site was actually called "Mandigo Love"] how can anyone take these places seriously?

And how can anyone not resist messing with these people?

Stupid people in large numbers are dangerous, history has taught us this valuable lesson many times over.

In the information age of course not only are they dangerous they can be down right hilarious and a never ending source of morbid entertainment. This phenomenon has spawned an off shoot of humanity; sometimes basement dwelling- always hunched over a computer screen laughing at the misfortune of others, this thing is called a troll.

I am sad to say. a recovering troll-a-holic.

Last year, I found one of my most lulz worthy of targets, AznLover.com, which I can say I've been banned from at least 4 times. I was invited to through Myspace, by a woman who thought we were kindred sprits simply because my boyfriend was Korean, and her boyfriend was Korean also.

I'm sure it made a lot of sense to her: she's a white lower class 35-year old All-American Christian divorcee from the mid west with a vocational school education, and I'm a frist generation Black/Asian Caribbean agnostic middle class college student.

Obviously we see the world through the same eyes all thanks to the unifying effects of genitals.

It's widely known that when people date a person of another race they instantly become bonded with everyone else that has a beau of the same hue.

If the above paragraph made you want to punch a kitten in the face, then we see eye-to-eye.

So if you so choose to journey into this dank corner of the internet you too will be amused as I was.

It was not the first time some random person sent me an invite to some group or site.

Eventually I decided to make sure that no one would ever bother me with their crap again. I decided to troll with the strongest weapon in my arsenal - the truth.

Many sites have funny taglines like, "Love is Color Blind" or "Loving All Things Asian;" filled with stock photos of multi racial models that are somehow supposed to entice someone into joining. The easiest way to cause drama and get cheap laughs is to point out the faults in them.

Any place that has a tag line suggesting color blindness but is only supporting the relations of one race with others can easily be called out for bullock.

If you posted something like, "If love is color blind, then why does this site only allow white women and black men?"

It will be the equivalent of dropping some fresh meat in a pool or piranhas. Posters lament, spew hatred and of course type insults using numbers and letters and you will have at least twenty minutes of entertainment. After spending a few months looking around sites like this I've found a few similarities and sure finds on them.

Racism and homophobia: just because a site is promoting tolerance of two races won't stop them from spitting venomous hate about other races. Many of these sites won't even permit homosexuals joining. So love is love...unless you don't love in the correct color coded heterosexual fashion.

Many sites try to make their cause sound less shallow by trying to frame it as not just partner seeking, but some kind of socio-political revolution.

One Myspace group, "White women who want to be impregnated by black men," claims to not be about unprotected sex but trying to end racism through mixed children. It worked so well for Thomas Jefferson and Strom Thurman. How can they be wrong?

Vilification is always prominent. I suppose the weaker minded can never just say they are with someone of another race simply because that person is the best partner for them and they love them. It must be the sinister workings of another larger entity.

Asian men need white women to combat negative media stereotypes of them. Indian men and black Caribbean women need to unite against sexist English colonialism. Black men need to be soothed by gentle white lasses after being emasculated by evil calculating black welfare queens.

Stereotyping is always lingering around these sites. Either perceived as positives such as Asian woman are petite, attractive and smarter than western women or negative like white women have oversized vaginas.

Sentiments like these are repeated and ground into the psyche of users. These sites should stand against stereotyping, but unfortunately a good deal of the members are there because they are so enamored with the idea of another race. An idea that is constructed mostly out of stereotypes than actual cultural identity.

It's sad and ironic that sites that were mad to foster some kind of tolerant environment end up being the dumping ground for insecurities and anger.

Ultimately these sites are doing more damage to the reputations of interracial unions than anything else. How can a healthy relationship develop is one or both parties are having a relationship with the ethnicity or race of a person and not the actual person?

When I went on my first date with my boyfriend, he took me to a restaurant mostly filled with whites and Asians. I felt uneasy with all the stares coming our way. When I asked him about it he just smiled at me and told me, "Of course they're staring, you're the most beautiful girl in the room."

I wasn't a black girl, or a Caribbean girl. I was just the woman that he had the most interest in. You shouldn't love your [insert race here] partner; you should just love your partner.

If you don't feel the same way about the person you are with, perhaps you need to re-evaluate your reasons for being with them.

Laptops, are not Free

Orginal Print: 10/16/07

"Free ring tones!" "Free cell phone!" "Free laptop!"

Every time you go on MySpace it seems that someone is trying to give you something for nothing. You want that iPod? Here you go, no strings attached. Well those blinking banners are hiding more than just spyware.

In fact, most of the free sites out there might give you a free item, but with the time and money it took to qualify for the item. You could have went out and bought it.

These sites are built to lure users in with anything from free condoms or baby food to home computers and laptops.

What they don't mention when they advertise is that you only can get the items when you sign up for, and sometimes pay for, other offers. Not to mention give out your email address to every Tom, Dick and Harry that wants to "bot," "spam" or "hack" you.

In these websites' defense, yes, you are getting something without directly paying for it, but is it really worth it?

According to the fine print of www.getmyfreelaptop.com a consumer must "agree to receive solicitations, marketing materials and other communications from us and Sponsors via e-mail, telemarketing, direct marketing, mobile marketing and any other method."

I don't know how many people think that it's worth the risk of having your professor's e-mail bounce back to them because FreeCondoms.com decided that you might want to check out some kinda free Soulja Boy ringtones...over a hundred times.

Let's say that you have a brand new Gmail account and you want to see just how full you can get that inbox, and spam isn't an issue for you. Well, there's on more thing keeping you from that iBook of your dreams, you need to sign up for the right amount of sponsors, or if you are into condoms, the right about of points.

On Getmyfreelaptop.com after signing away my privacy and the personal information of one Mr. Ike Lyke Bigboughtts, I was asked to complete several surveys when I answered "no" the website stalled. It wouldn't take me any further until I said "yes" to at least one of them. I picked an offer for a $5,000 dollar shopping spree, all I had to do was take a survey on tobacco. Of course I don't use any kind of tobacco product and there was no option I could choose to say so, but it did ask me if I was interested in Smoker's rights. (Maybe the smokers and the furries can march on Washington together.)

I couldn't complete this survey because I didn't want to give them permission to spam my email or call my cell phone and the survey asks in the question: Are you legal age to use tobacco and do you give us permission to spam you to bejesus and back. They don't separate the two at all.

Everywhere I turned on the site, they were looking for a way for me to give them permission to email me junk, their worthless coupons, and more "free" offers. The kicker is that once I waded through all the surveys and submitted my email address to at least ten sites…I was nowhere near getting a laptop, Why - Because you need to sign up for and be approved for two different credit cards, to be considered for the computer.

If I had good credit, couldn't I just buy a computer? I don't understand how people let websites like this get away with jerking them around so. They are after your email info, your phone number and your address, so they can have access to you so they can shove a bunch of crap you don't need down your throat.

Don't fall for these sites, they're set up so they can get over on you. These free stuff sites are nothing more than the cyber version of a rider holding a carrot out on stick in front of a mule.

The poor animal is to focus on the carrot to think about where the rider is taking it.

"The Sound and the Furries"

This article I would have to say is my secound most trouble making post, not becuase it upset the school , but becuase of the overwhelming feedback from angry furries who think that in opinion pieces writers look to please everyone... well we don't. I found it a little funny that most of the comments on the Rutgers Observer website pretty much proved me right.

Oringial print 10/9/07

The internet has revolutionized the world, creating the global market place, making contact with almost anyone instantaneously possible, breaking down language and cultural barriers but most people don't care about that. The truth is it gives us a venue to gather around our bizarre sexual fetishes.

Oh, and we all have weird fetishes at least by net standards. I like to have coitus in the missionary position with the lights off with a person of the opposite gender that I have a monogamous relationship with. Shockingly enough, it is pretty hard to find someone with my point of view. I must be the most depraved of all.

My own puritan sexual values aside, I have no issue with the of fetish sites out there as long as they are legal and don't do any harm to people especially children, but there is one community that leaves an awful taste in my mouth: they call themselves Furries.

For those that don't know, the Furries or Furs are people who are enamored with the idea of anthropomorphic animals. So enamored in fact that they want to have sex with them. Yes, you read that right. The basis of Fur infatuation is obsession animal people, not kawaii neko cat girls, but a full on dog that just happens to be able to walk on two legs. Luckily for humanity, there are no dog people so to achieve their dream- Furs sometimes spend hundreds of dollars on "fur suits" so they can unleash their "fursona."

A fursona is what a furry thinks he or she really is. Some furs are quite convinced that they were born with animal spirits and thus construct suits or even go so far as to surgically alter their bodies so they can look more like the fox, wolf or even the griffin they really feel they are inside.

How a person can be born with the soul of a mythological creature is beyond me. I'm sure there is some furry logic that someone outside their fan-dom simply can't grasp, or they are simple bat crap insane. I'm leaning towards the latter. For those that can't afford the suits they settle for text based role play sex and poorly drawn cartoon porn called "Yiff."

I've seen weirder, sicker stuff on the net, but the Fur community is one of the few communities that have adopted a victim complex that is not only baffling; it's infuriating.

While wanting to manipulate your genitals to a picture of a horse man with lactating breasts being sodomized by an anthropomorphic Orca Whale is weird, so is wanting to do the same to a grown woman dressed like a little school girl; the main difference in that the latter is usually done in private or in specialized areas when appropriate. If I, for instance, got my rocks off dressing like a school girl with platform heels and pigtails, I would not expect to be able to do that at work without being penalized or fired. Many furs want their "fursona" to shine 24/7 and if interrupted, many seem to think they are experiencing persecution.

Cruising through one of the many live journal Furry communities, you can read thousands of accounts of alleged "Fursecution." One blogger laments about being fired from his office job for looking at "yiff," and how it was awful that he was fired for simply being a furry.

I'm sorry, but as far back as I can recall, looking at pornography of any kind was reason for termination. If you want to look at Simba and Nala do it people style- good for you, but not on company time, simple as that.

Another blogger writes about how she was forced to take off her "ears and tail" while at work, calling it mutilation. She then has the gall to compare her situation with that of a black co-worker who sports an afro. I can only look at this as innate insanity at its finest.

It is blogs and websites full of rants about the attacks on furs and the rights that furries mistakenly believe they have that have made them the target de jour of troll, ebuamers and various other internet superheroes. No one can really feel sorry for a group that spits in the face of other people that have truly been through persecution. No furry church has ever been torched - Furry is not an organized religion. No furry has ever been beaten and left to die on a fence because of their sexual orientation - because Furry is not a sexual orientation. No furry is being raped or killed because of their nationality, race, ethnicity or class. Being part of the Fur fan-dom doesn't fall under any of those categories. Furry is not a gender. Furry is not a disability. There can be no Furry genocide, Holocaust nor a Fur Trail of Tears.

When Furs seriously compare themselves to peoples that in actuality have been persecuted and continue to be discriminated against, it's laughable to a point and then it's just insulting. I also find it ironic that a group of people that claim to be animals have the audacity to say their basic human rights are being violated. Any Furry that says their freedom of speech is being violated need to re-take Civics 101. No one is saying Furs aren't allowed to say how much they want to have sex with stuffed animals, most just simply don't want to hear about it. Someone voicing an opposing view to yours is not a violation of your freedom of speech it is them exercising theirs. The first amendment is not a do-whatever-you-want card; it simply says that congress will pass no laws prohibiting certain things.

No where in the constitution does it say that if you want to do nutty things that people have to act as if you aren't completely out of your mind. If you make the choice to indulge in a fetish as extreme and bizarre as Fur then you have to prepare for the repercussions. Either deal with the fact that you are weirdoes to the majority of the planet or Yiff in hell, the choice is yours Furries.

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