Because someone will ask, sooner or later....

[jarrardi]

My thoughts on last night's CSI episode, "Fur and Loathing in Las Vegas": I suspect that my voice will echo that of most every furry when I say "It could have been a lot worse." I liked that the one dude (whose name I forget) offered a balanced/sensible way of looking at certain elements of furriness. Most time the media will bring up words like "yiff" or "zoophile", define them graphically, and then leave them at that without ever mentioning that the vast majority of furries aren't interested in animals in any sort of sexual way (it's amazing how many non-furries will fight me to the death about that), and nearly all are disgusted by 'zoo' practices even more so than mainstream society. Media will pick certain individuals with particularly extremist views and/or obsessions, and try to make the most bizarre of their oddities seem like things that define every furry. No, being a furry is, in its most basic form, simply feeling a certain kinship with a particular type of animal. (Myself, I identify with felines, particularly cougars/mountain lions.) The media will point out that most furries consider even the extremists that the media ferrets out as fellow furries, but they won't say anything about the fact that tolerance, open-mindedness, and acceptance of even those whose beliefs or practices don't necessarily align with ours are fundamental elements of being a furry.
But I've wandered off-topic. I liked the ending to the CSI episode (well, as much as I can say to like the death or any animal or person), it could have been much worse to. But I think once again my voice will echo that of most furries when I say that I wish sometime someone would do something in mass media (I include TV shows and the like in that) on/about furries that didn't involve orgies or sex. :-P