Sindi-Furblog

In case you didn't already know, you might be interested to know that there was an episode of CSI that centered around the Furry Fandom (Season 4, Episode 5: Fur and Loathing).  You can watch it HERE if you haven't and want to see it.  Spoilers ahead if you haven't watched it yet.

So a guy with a Racoon Fursuit is dead, and they're investigating. Catherine and Gil have a trip to a furry convention to find some people he knew.  You see a lot of people in fursuits and Gil visits a lecture that sort of explains what some people think being a furry is.  Of course to many people it's different, but it explains people having an animal side they wish to express.  Good ol' Grissom seems to find them all very fascinating instead of writing them off as weirdos right off the bat.

Not long later, the episode digs into one of the darker sides of the fandom.  The dead man was apparently into yiffing, and scritching (never heard that term until now).  Real pervy stuff, basically. This sort of made me sad because it could give furries a bad image for someone who has never heard of one before.  I experienced the same issue.  I watched this episode on TV one night years ago before I really even knew what a furry is.  It did give me a bad first impression of furries, and it wasn't until years later that I discovered that they aren't all furverts.

As the episode goes on, it focuses entirely on the yiffing furries.  Catherine is very disturbed by it and Gil keeps his composure and continues being all philosophical as usual.  After watching it again and being a furry now, I realize that the episode is kind enough to make furries at least look like they're fun.  As I described what happens later in the episode, it makes me rather sad and could spread a stereotype that a lot of furries are into that, which from my experience isn't true at all.  Some are, yes, but most are just fun people who like to wear costumes and socialize.  I am one of those furries.

I'm tired and it's late, so my sort of afterthought of a blog has been a disorganized one, but watch the episode and you'll get what i'm saying.  If I don't play some Minecraft soon, i think i'm going to have nightmares, so that's all for now.