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Stigma follows 'Furries' despite warm and fuzzy reception in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | July 5, 2018 | Diana Nelson Jones

Posted on 07/05/2018 5:37:41 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Ninth Circuit Court may yet find a “freedom to yif” in the emanations and penumbra of the Constitution.


21 posted on 07/05/2018 6:33:24 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: moovova

22 posted on 07/05/2018 6:35:15 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Loved here because they manage to book-up all of the downtown hotel rooms once each summer.


Also the weekend most hotel housekeeping staff call in sick I’m betting. haha


23 posted on 07/05/2018 6:38:00 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Have they got their own pronouns yet? And how long can I be sent to reeducation camp if I don’t use them?


24 posted on 07/05/2018 6:45:32 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: P.O.E.

Kilt him a Furry when he was only three. (Or was that Davy Crockett? Never can remember.)


25 posted on 07/05/2018 6:50:38 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ConservativeWarrior

Out there on the web is a fabulous bit of audio from a Pirates-Brewers game several years ago.

The Brew Crew was in town and Mr. Baseball himself, Bob Uecker, was calling the game. It was the week of the furry convention and Uecker was trying to explain to his audience back in Wisconsin exactly what was going on in his hotel.

Almost no play-by-play for a couple of innings as he struggled to describe what he had seen.


26 posted on 07/05/2018 7:07:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: oblomov

Oh, I gotta steal that.

(And as to the topic here, well, eww, but hey, whatever floats their boat, whatever roxxes their foxxes, that sort of thing)

Hahaha. Right.

Although, Pittsburgh is quite amusing and interesting. A step above Cleveland, I guess.


27 posted on 07/05/2018 7:10:00 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If just one wore a MAGA cap (yeah, I know) they would all be run out of town on a rail.


28 posted on 07/05/2018 7:11:26 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Big Red Badger
Well, I was thinking of the antecedent line when I made the post...

...but yea, that line applies just as well.

On many levels, Frank Zappa's comment - whatever you can do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder - isn't too bad a way to think about things. Yes, violating property and initiating fraud are crimes and should not be tolerated. And if you're dressing up like a rodent in the privacy of your own home, that's your business, just like I don't want the government crashing through my front door looking for Gadsden flags.

But this kind of thing goes both ways: you can fly your freak flag in public, but that same right you're exercising also permits others to call you a freak.

29 posted on 07/05/2018 7:15:39 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Fess Parker or Fess Parker?


30 posted on 07/05/2018 7:17:35 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I have a friend that is a local sheriff.....He has had to break up some furry parties at houses...It is nothing but a sexual fetish. One of the furries was tired of being the catcher...He wanted to pitch and a big brawl broke....no joke....This friend told me it is some dark and sinister stuff.


31 posted on 07/05/2018 7:20:50 AM PDT by chasio649 (Donald Trump is not the president we need, he is the president SJWs deserve)
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To: ConservativeWarrior
Also the weekend most hotel housekeeping staff call in sick I’m betting. haha

Do the feline furries use giant litter boxes?

32 posted on 07/05/2018 7:24:14 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Wonderful theory, wrong species)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

In a righteous society, a stigma should follow these freaks. They’re perverts.


33 posted on 07/05/2018 7:34:28 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Yes.

Several years ago, a co worker had a friend who worked at the Westin which is attached to the convention center here in Pittsburgh. This person was telling him that these weirdos show up with giant litter boxes that they literally use to pi$$ and $h!t. They make a total mess out of the hotel and the hotel staff cannot stand “furry week”, yet the idiots of Pittsburgh continue to welcome these sickos. Makes me ashamed to live here.


34 posted on 07/05/2018 7:38:45 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Out there on the web is a fabulous bit of audio from a Pirates-Brewers game several years ago.”

In case anybody’s interested in Uecker’s take:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T291jwBFLvA


35 posted on 07/05/2018 8:09:16 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Another mental illness on parade


36 posted on 07/05/2018 8:10:19 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: Waverunner
I always thought of my ex as a bit of an Ass.

I hear you. I was married to an albatross.

37 posted on 07/05/2018 8:16:02 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law." --Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Albion Wilde; Waverunner

I was once wedded to a CRAB...


38 posted on 07/05/2018 8:26:37 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Mayor Bill Peduto is importing San Francisco values here at an accelerating rate. It ain’t your grandma’s blue collar Catholic Yinzer Pittsburgh anymore.


39 posted on 07/05/2018 8:26:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
A response to the article ...

Bonnie Tella 29 minutes ago
@Raymond Foerster
I believe that the general lack of tail is what draws many individuals to join the Furry community in the first place.

40 posted on 07/05/2018 8:52:58 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Antifa and Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) = SturmAbteilung)
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