Quote from: repentance on November 10, 2012, 02:29:59 AM

With due respect, there were plenty of people saying the opposite - that, yes, shoe seems pretty messed up and none of the players in the drama are particularly likeable but no matter what she did not deserve those beatings.

At which point the thread turned into a massive flamewar and got locked, yeah. Still, SA has improved a lot over the years. Notice all the (:regd04:) people complaining about how they can't even mock furries anymore and how the forum's gone downhill? From what I can remember they're not kidding about how things used to be.

In fact, as best as I can tell this new community divide is the reason they don't have furry threads anymore. The last one I saw on there imploded after some people called gay furries "faggots" and one of the gay forum members objected. He got piled on and someone paid to change his forum title to "I am a faggot" in massive red text. Things went downhill pretty quickly from there. (Interestingly, title changes have to be approved by the admins and the other moderators seemed scared to change it back.) Some people in the first Bitcoin thread seemed to be worried about that turning into a furry thread and getting locked too.

Quote from: Snaer on November 10, 2012, 08:45:59 PM

As for the furry issue, I'd have to say I agree with the stance that's its disgusting and everyone involved needs psychological help. In my time on the internet, I've seen a lot of furries equate their fetish with being gay, which... Yeah, just no.

Yeaaaaah... bit more to it than that. A lot (all?) of the anti-furry stuff out there uses language that'd be obviously homophobic in any other context, aims it at a group that is famously largely gay, and justifies this by arguing that they're not really gay, they're just a bunch of fat weirdo freaks who just turn to other guys because no women would sleep with them and who are appropriating gay rights to stop people giving their freaky fetish stuff a well-deserved mocking. (I honestly cannot grasp why anyone would think that argument's a good idea, but people apparently do.) A lot of the supposed examples of furries equating their fetish to being gay actually have more to do with them objecting to that.

In fact, you know the well-known example of furries equating their fetish with being gay, that drawing of a fox crying in front of a rainbow flag? The one that SA has an emoticon of which they use to mock furries? I literally only found this out by accident a few months ago, but it's actually nothing of the sort. It's part of a statement by an actual gay guy who also happens to be a furry about the dire state of gay rights in the US in 2004 and how this affects him; "fursecution" didn't even enter into it until SA went herpderp, furries can't possibly care about gay rights, let's mock him for it.