Raindrops keep falling on my head, porn, and furries

[thistlechaser]

For the first time in eight or nine months, we had something wet falling from the sky. No way could it be called "rain", and it wasn't even enough for "drizzle". Saying it "sprinkled" would really be pushing it as well, but we did get a few drops of moisture this morning! And man, it's cold out! It's below 50 at night! (Stop laughing, jakflak :) ) I always change into shorts as soon as I get home from work, but I was actually cold in them last night. Well, luckily for us, our winter only lasts a couple months, then we'll be back to nice (warm and dry) weather.

I've surprised myself by not writing/ranting about this "protection from porn" week that our (*cough*) illustrious president has thrust upon us. I do not believe that anyone other than perhaps the youngest children, need "protection" from porn. If Bush wanted to do something to help America's sexuality issues, he'd make a week to promote porn.

spenceraloysius posted a great joke about Bush here. Even a couple days after reading it, it still amuses me.

So last night CSI did an ep about furries. I know quite a bit about furry people (much more than I want to), but seeing it on TV was just really disturbing. Hearing "yiff" used out loud made me twitch. The show was very funny in that 'Oh my god, they're all freaks, but at least they're no where near me!' and 'Eeeeee! Sticky fur suits?' sort of way. And even with all that? With all the squicking it caused? It didn't even touch upon the most disturbing elements of the furry world: Sex with plush animals, real ones, and (wow!) everyone in a furry costume ended up to be a mostly normal looking person. No one was overweight, no one had pimples. All that positive spin on it, and it was still disturbing as hell. (The words "yiffing in a furpile" will haunt my nightmares for years to come.)

I do feel sorry for furry people, though. If I was one (ha, *twitch*), I'd not want my "community" splashed across national television for the whole country to watch and mock/twitch at.

Scary stuff.

Comments

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

There were too many women at the furcon. *nods*

Also, I have a feeling the kid with the spiked collar and the adorable wrinkly dog plus was just a bit too overprotective of his fluffy puppy. *g*

That joke was funny, but it maligns Houston! *shakes fist*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought there might have been too many women there, but I wasn't sure.

[aretina.livejournal.com]

I thought the plot itself was something of a cop-out, kind of gimmick-y for CSI, but maybe I've overdosed, having watched the first 2 seasons on DVD over the last couple of weeks and then finally getting reception of CBS so I could watch it weekly.

I felt for the actual furries of this world-- and I thought it was normal to at least know what the word means, but apparantly I am now the neighborhood freak for knowing this.

Here's the thing I really wanted to ask though-- did you notice at the end that Grissom has a little bear figurine on or next to his coffee cup? Is that new? Was that empathy/understanding for the furries or some kind of homage? Also liked Catherine's "whatever happened to normal sex" and Grissom's "what is normal sex?" Heh.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, I only catch CSI now and then, so to me the plot seemed okay/normal for them. I could be wrong though.

and I thought it was normal to at least know what the word means, but apparantly I am now the neighborhood freak for knowing this

Apparently non-Internet folks are shocked and amazed that furries are real things. I'm not really sure how anyone who is on the Internet on a regular basis could miss that fact (unless they're like my mother and think that AOL is the entire Internet).

did you notice at the end that Grissom has a little bear figurine on or next to his coffee cup? Is that new?

By the end of the ep, I was already on various message boards to see what people were saying about it, so I missed seeing the ending (though I was listening). Sorry!