Oh, I haven't forgotten. It's just that by the time that episode rolled around, I already knew what the deal was with that show so I was kind of ambivalent about whether or not it was worth being too outraged over, not having seen it yet but having a general idea in my head of how they probably handled it (and to my surprise, it was actually far less offensive to me personally than I'd anticipated). Now, I was ambivalent about the show itself after just a few episodes worth of time with it and that's why I didn't catch it originally. Then one incredibly hot summer working an incredibly exhausting job, something happened: I found myself watching marathons of the shit on White Trash TV Spike TV every evening until I'd go to bed because I was literally too beat to get my arse up off the couch to change the channel, or even look for the remote until bed time. And so it was everything else about the show that kinda rubbed me the wrong way. At one point I found myself dubbing it The X-Files For Conservatives.
I don't think I was ever aware of this site you're talking about. Hell, I probably wasn't even aware of Flayrah at the time. But now that you mention the Vanity Fair article, I do remember that and having a similar reaction as my reaction to the CSI episode like, eh, could've been worse.
For me what really stung was people in certain circles I rolled with belittling furries. I mean IRL. Because a lot of them were artists, animators, graphic designers, IT nerds, Magic The Gathering, Pokemon, Harry Potter fans, etc. Like, who the fuck are y'all to judge anybody? That and therians... Who themselves would end up using the fandom to sell art once that "community" imploded from a combination of peak-crazy and the resulting apathy.
I think the best way to avoid negative associations like that is just to be well known enough to people whose respect matters that much to you that they can see or hear about something like that and be like, nah, no way dude's like that. But IRL I'm probably like 5 or 6 points away on Hare's checklist from being a full-blown psychopath so certain things about projecting a certain "aura" come a little more natural to me. That's my admittedly not-so-educated guess though.
Oh, I haven't forgotten. It's just that by the time that episode rolled around, I already knew what the deal was with that show so I was kind of ambivalent about whether or not it was worth being too outraged over, not having seen it yet but having a general idea in my head of how they probably handled it (and to my surprise, it was actually far less offensive to me personally than I'd anticipated). Now, I was ambivalent about the show itself after just a few episodes worth of time with it and that's why I didn't catch it originally. Then one incredibly hot summer working an incredibly exhausting job, something happened: I found myself watching marathons of the shit on
White Trash TVSpike TV every evening until I'd go to bed because I was literally too beat to get my arse up off the couch to change the channel, or even look for the remote until bed time. And so it was everything else about the show that kinda rubbed me the wrong way. At one point I found myself dubbing it The X-Files For Conservatives.I don't think I was ever aware of this site you're talking about. Hell, I probably wasn't even aware of Flayrah at the time. But now that you mention the Vanity Fair article, I do remember that and having a similar reaction as my reaction to the CSI episode like, eh, could've been worse.
For me what really stung was people in certain circles I rolled with belittling furries. I mean IRL. Because a lot of them were artists, animators, graphic designers, IT nerds, Magic The Gathering, Pokemon, Harry Potter fans, etc. Like, who the fuck are y'all to judge anybody? That and therians... Who themselves would end up using the fandom to sell art once that "community" imploded from a combination of peak-crazy and the resulting apathy.
I think the best way to avoid negative associations like that is just to be well known enough to people whose respect matters that much to you that they can see or hear about something like that and be like, nah, no way dude's like that. But IRL I'm probably like 5 or 6 points away on Hare's checklist from being a full-blown psychopath so certain things about projecting a certain "aura" come a little more natural to me. That's my admittedly not-so-educated guess though.