The Corruption of Our Youth!

[hortmage]

Fellow furries,
I caught this on my local newspaper's on-line edition.
The horrors!
The corruption of our Nation's Youth!
The thought that they might have been directed to a site about... FUR!!!!
Enjoy the irony.....
"Misprint in Educational Magazine Leads Fourth-Graders to Adult Web Site"
By The Associated Press
December 13, 2002
LAPORTE, Ind. - A mix up between ".com" and ".org" pointed thousands of Indiana fourth-graders to an Internet site for adults instead of one dedicated to the state's history in fur trade.
Laura Nirenberg, an animal activist, discovered the misprint in a recent issue of "Indiana Studies Weekly," after reading several statements about fur trade that upset her.
When Nirenberg went to the only Web site listed in the issue - promoted as "a good place on the Internet to find information on the fur industry" - she realized it was not about the fur industry at all.
Instead, it was an entryway to an adult chat site for people who call themselves "furries."
"I was just horrified to find out that a typo had been made," said Ed Rickers, president and chief executive officer of the Utah company that prints the issues.
Rickers said the newspaper should have directed students to www.fur.org.
Susie Cutler, a Chesterton mother, said she'd been alerted that issues had arrived in the Duneland school system where her son is a student, but they were not handed out at his school.
"I hope, in the future, teachers will read anything they give out to students and make judgments about whether it's appropriate," Cutler told The Post-Tribune for Friday's paper.

[Phoenix-D]

I love simplifed news articles :p
"Instead, it was an entryway to an adult chat site for people who call themselves "furries."
I looked, and gee..I didn't see any adult content. I'm sure there's some in there SOMEWHERE, but it's not exactly a porn site. Didn't see any chat areas either.
Phoenix-D

[Kryslin]

Hmm, first website I went to from the top page had adult content, about 4 clicks in.
Most furry sites, especially those with chat rooms, have the typical adult disclaimer on them, because furries are often a randy bunch (virtually, anyway; What they do in the privacy of thier homes is none of my business), and they typically do very adult things in those chatrooms, things that have no business being discussed here.
Be thankful that the misprinted link didn't lead them to FurryMUCK. Aneurisms all around for the parents.
I suspect even my fanfiction groups over at Yahoogroups would give a lot of people fits; Things tend to be a very solid PG-13, but there are moments when the blood flows freely...
Steve

[bilou]

You'll be surprise, how brilliant young are. If they want to go into a adult site, nothing will stop them. A young boy i know (8 years-old) Know how to outpass his parents passwords. So...
Besides, it's like D&D in my youth. I was suppose to kill myself just playing that RPG game.
Well, i'm sure, they are going in "Normal" adults sites too. Media always say what THEY want to say... Just want to make a reaction.
They can't class everyfurries just by that. I think.
But, Hey! That's only my opinion!

[the dark ferret]

That. Is. So. Cool.
Why couldn't I have had an education like that? It took me 34yre to realize I was a furfan, and these kids got it handed to them in their lap, (not to mix metaphors or anything... :p ), as it were. Lousy, no-good educational system! Grrrr

[ArugulaZ]

I'm amazed at the lengths people will go to marginalize furry fans. My boss announced that I was "strange" for reading Commander Kitty, a comic with absolutely no sexual content. I wanted to respond by informing him that he was a lardass redneck, but I'm rather fond of my job and wasn't quite ready to lose it.
JR

[Mark Stanley]

Let’s stop the accidental corruption of our youth! Youth must be corrupted along proper and politically correct party lines!

[brumby]

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Mark Stanley:
Let’s stop the accidental corruption of our youth! Youth must be corrupted along proper and politically correct party lines! <hr></blockquote>
I thought youth were supposed to be cynically corrupted for a cheap buck!
Anyway, exposing kids to anything that their parents didn't have seems to count as
corruption to somebody.
brumby, Corrupting youth with computer games since 1994.

[shadowcat]

Unless todays kids are different then when I was a kid they will corrupt themselves sooner or later

[docabsinthe]

I'm with you Dark Ferret. I did'nt find out about the furry world until about 3 years ago. Kids today have so much info at their fingertips that it boogles the mind. About this time last year I got in a little trouble for that sort of thing. I was at a friends place doing some trouble shooting and changed his wall paper when he was'nt looking. Put up Eric Schwartz's pic of Shiela Vixen, the one with her wearing nothing but a ribbon and licking a candy cane. ---doc

[the dark ferret]

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Mark Stanley:

Let’s stop the accidental corruption of our youth! Youth must be corrupted along proper and politically correct party lines! <hr></blockquote>
You should run for office!

[EarlWerks]

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by the dark ferret:
You should run for office!<hr></blockquote>
Don't give him ideas! He might have Sam run for office!

[DanDan Cougar]

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Earl McClaw:

Don't give him ideas! He might have Sam run for office! <hr></blockquote>
Sam is overqualified.

[Icefox]

*laughs* I don't see what the whole deal is, myself. But then, I'm part Danish. It's the Scandanavian way to corrupt your youths good 'n' early. And make sure you do a damn good job of it, 'cause it is fun.

[Olletho]

My half Norse father did a fairly through job on me. I knew perfectly well other famlies weren't singing 'Cats on the rooftops' as christmass carols, but I was laughing to hard to complain.