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I'll never get used to that.

Was there ever an episode of CSI with furries? I was talking with a friend of mine and we were discussing art conventions, and I mentioned Anthrocon, and he asked me "What's that? Is that like on that episode of CSI with the furpile?"<br><br>Three thoughts crossed my mind right then:<br>1) Furpile?<br>2) CSI?<br>3) Furpile?<br><br>I've never watched CSI, but my friend's an addict, so I was wondering if anyone knows what's he's referring to. And yes, I explained to him that "furry"="anthro," not "yiff."

There was an episode of CSI that featured a murder at a furry conventions, and it gave the impression that furs didn't do anything but yiff. The "furpile" was shown as a bunch of people in fursuits doing some serious yiffing, something that would never happen in real life for many reasons.

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I wasn't particularly aware of it, but if anything it's just depressing.<br><br><span style='color:gray'><span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>(I would have used a roll eyes on the previous post, but I came to the conclusion it looked far too happy.)</span></span>

Vanity Fair magazine and MTV have both done less-than-favourable portrayals of furries recently, as well as some other media outlets, which is why most non-yiffy furry fans are ashamed to admit that they're furs.

Geez, I never even knew what furries were until I came to this board, and I've never seen any media attention to them at all, good or bad. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.

Oh man... I saw that CSI episode only a few weeks ago, since I finally found a video of it online. I actually kept my favorite lines in a little text file. I don't watch the show, and i don't recall names, but obviously it was the main female character who said all of these excellent lines:<br><br>"This isn't a costume, it's a six-foot condom"<br>"Well I like hairy chest, but I'm not about to bop a six foot weasel"<br>"You don't think they allow plushies in the NRA?"<br><br>But it was really bad.<br><br>Oddly enough, I first heard of furries in an article in the Parade, which somebody linked to for some other story on these forums... it wasn't really a bad article. Although it was misleading, since it started off being a page about Digipen college, and then suddenly, next page, suddenly game design was nothing.<br><br>Also not long ago I was linked to this: <a href='http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Ch ... _FURRY.jpg' target='_blank'>http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Ch ... RRY.jpg</a> which I loved.

OMG I love that drawing!!<br><br>[adds it to his collection]

Hey that's pretty good!<br>Although it'd help if it was more well-known.

The media is infatuated with sex, because that's what gets the ratings. Also, I've never seen a "creative" portrayal recieved well by those being portrayed.

Yes, the media certainly knows it's priorities, but in relation to dobbs' thoughts pn reception of portrayal, just don't take it too seriously i suppose. <br><br>Though i feel the point is not what the people being portrayed would think about it, rather what others would think about those people.

I never saw that CSI episode. i'm not a fanatic, or anything, but its something that my family will sometimes watch together. No better family time than watching the main char solve a grusome, bloody murder in under an hour!

It's weird. I've thought about going into forensics for a career, and whenever people ask me, they always say "oh, you watch CSI?" and I felt like the only person who never watched it. And Dr. Dos, after hearing those quotes, I <i>have</i> to see the episode now. I'm curious to see what it's like. And excellent pic. I'm gonna start carrying that around for whenever my friends ask what a furry is.