[Pa-furry] [NEWS] Western PA Furry Weekend Newsletter

[xanderfoxjsc at juno.com]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:44:29 -0400 (EDT) master at bondofox.net writes:
> > March 2007
> 
> What, no bark and a lick??  ;)
> 
> > ... The group has made provisions for furry parents who may wish 
> to bring
> > their
> > children along to the event. The meet is PG rated and Fireman's 
> Park, the
> > site for the Fur-b-que on Saturday is a wonderful place for 
> children and
> > adults to play and enjoy themselves.
> 
> I don't know if this has ever been addressed, or if it even CAN be
> addressed ... but what about "kids" and their NON-furry parents? 
> Occasionally I run into older teenagers who would LOVE to be in furry
> fandom more, and would even love to attend a con, but they're afraid 
> of
> what their parents might think or say, especially after the attempted
> poisoning of the fandom through the media (last year at AC I was 
> *still*
> hearing non-furs referring to "CSI" and wanted to grab them by the
> shoulders and shake vigorously).  Is there ANYthing that we can do to
> educate the parents so they know their kids *won't* come back in as 
> bear
> suit-wearing homosexuals looking for anatomically-correct plushies?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> And good luck with the con, I hope I can FINALLY attend this year!
> 
> Chris Foxx/BondoFox
I know what you mean, I was at AC and several people on the street
refered to
furry as a sexual thing.  Another person asked me if wearing a tail
denoted rank,
as if furry was a relegion or something.  The problem is trying to make
the media
see that the stuff on CSI and ER isn't the entire cruix of Furry Fandom,
the CSI
stuff is very small minority.  But of course was with everything the
media focuses
on the "freaks" even when they are a minority.