My May 17th Furry Pride Day...

[BusterBuizel]

Well well. Just a little backstory to this event:

"As you all know, the Day of Silence was a day to honor those gays and lesbians who dare not speak. However, another group of people have been opressed and shunned have banded together to spread our word of our mistreatment! We are the Furries, a society of golden-hearted people who deviate from normal society with our ways of dressing up in costumes and acting like animals. Well on May 17th I will lead my school's Furry Pride Day observance along with my friends and fellow Furs! Help spread the word of our mistreatment and alienation! On that day we will not speak, and only make the sounds of our animal personas. Spread our word and speak out for us fellow students! For we have been shunned, beaten, and alienated for our choices to deviate from society! Come and support our movement for National Furry Pride Day!"

Buuuut Here's the sad part: Here's my speech to the Furries at my school:

"On this day, Friday May 13th, I have recieved the bad news about Furry Pride Day scheduled on May 17th.

I am truly sorry to announce that it has been canceled due to the 'distracting' influence it has on the school. I have talked with the principle about this event moments (around 11AM) ago and was denied approval for the day we make a silent statement. This breaks my heart and crushes me down as much as it does our supporters (and we had A LOT of supporters) and we feel that we have been denied a victory. We just want to be heard and understood, not ridiculed.

Right now as the self proclaimed leader of my school's Furry Movement I fell absolutely crushed and depressed at this terrible news I had to share. Once again: I am truly sorry"



This really gets me mad. I try for a NONVIOLENT MOVEMENT and I have reason to believe that an utter bigot reported us for nothing. I mean, wtf? All I wanted to do was to spread understanding and tolerance, yet someone strikes us down? This is not fair... What do you think I should do about this?

[Ares the Ram]

what was the principle's reason for not letting you be silent? for that matter, why do you need his/her permission?

[BusterBuizel]

"distracting influence" We were also dressing up in our furry costumes that abid by the school's dress code but we were denied. 

[Ares the Ram]

I can see how wearing furry costumes could be interpreted as a distracting influence. Maybe meet them half way and just be silent without cotumes?

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this seems to me like a violation of First Amendment rights, i mean this is PUBLIC school isn't it?

[BusterBuizel]

YES! But bull S*** is flying around like infectors in the Ishimura...

[✡]

you probably should confront the school board about this. something similar happened at my school where they denied people the right to start a Wiccan club but approved Bible Club

[Gabag]

Well well. Just a little backstory to this event:

"As you all know, the Day of Silence was a day to honor those gays and lesbians who dare not speak. However, another group of people have been opressed and shunned have banded together to spread our word of our mistreatment! We are the Furries, a society of golden-hearted people who deviate from normal society with our ways of dressing up in costumes and acting like animals. Well on May 17th I will lead my school's Furry Pride Day observance along with my friends and fellow Furs! Help spread the word of our mistreatment and alienation! On that day we will not speak, and only make the sounds of our animal personas. Spread our word and speak out for us fellow students! For we have been shunned, beaten, and alienated for our choices to deviate from society! Come and support our movement for National Furry Pride Day!"

Buuuut Here's the sad part: Here's my speech to the Furries at my school:

"On this day, Friday May 13th, I have recieved the bad news about Furry Pride Day scheduled on May 17th.

I am truly sorry to announce that it has been canceled due to the 'distracting' influence it has on the school. I have talked with the principle about this event moments (around 11AM) ago and was denied approval for the day we make a silent statement. This breaks my heart and crushes me down as much as it does our supporters (and we had A LOT of supporters) and we feel that we have been denied a victory. We just want to be heard and understood, not ridiculed.

Right now as the self proclaimed leader of my school's Furry Movement I fell absolutely crushed and depressed at this terrible news I had to share. Once again: I am truly sorry"



This really gets me mad. I try for a NONVIOLENT MOVEMENT and I have reason to believe that an utter bigot reported us for nothing. I mean, wtf? All I wanted to do was to spread understanding and tolerance, yet someone strikes us down? This is not fair... What do you think I should do about this?

you do what all non violent protesters do when denied
you do it anyways and accept their consequences without batting an eyelash.

[BusterBuizel]

Thanks for the advice everyone! I appreciate the help!

Post Merge: May 14, 2011, 06:07:27 AM

I can see how wearing furry costumes could be interpreted as a distracting influence. Maybe meet them half way and just be silent without cotumes?

And Im actually the only one with a costume. Even so, its more of a lightweight cosplay suit made from PJs. And I live near Portland Oregon. Guess the city's motto?

"Keep Portland Weird"

Shouldnt the same be true of its suburbs?

[Vinny Raccoon]

sometimes people with authority abused there power. take king henry the eighth for example, even tho he had da power to rule with an iron fist, he abused that power by choping the innocence heads off! couse he was affrade to take the time to understand how people feel.
now your principle for that matter dose not understand what he/she not knowledgeable of. its supposed to be the teachers job to learn from there students as well as the students learning for what they can learn from the teacher.
they are the adults, and adults know its is wrong to push one judgement on to others.

there may be a time when both sides need to take action of diplomacy. or to take matter into there own paws. my advice is to take a diplomatic approach to the situation. but if all else fails then hire an loyer!

hoped that helped

[BusterBuizel]

Will do! My fursona is a president anyway. Syntex, you there?

[Midnight Madness]

Your mispronunciation and spelling of my name is actually beginning to get amusing. =P

Either way, we already discussed what shall be done of this biased act. I'm going to type up a formal letter later on today and bring it in with me on Monday. What you explained to me is that his argument was, and still is, wholly contradictory and ironic. I don't see why everyone is so perturbed by furries... It's much more innocent than being homosexual. Hence the latter portion of the word "sexual." Furries need not be sexual; as it is not specifically an orientation of that nature. But to announce homosexuality is to say you'd like to clamber into bed with someone of the same gender and get touchy-feely. Furries just like to consider themselves having a secondary persona that is an animal; what's the big deal?

Don't worry, dude; I'll step up and help you guys out wholeheartedly. Just this time, wait for me to be AT school, rather than run off all hastily and try to get it done instantly.

[BusterBuizel]

Hasty Buizel is Hasty... Sorry, runs in the species...

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good to see this is working itself out

[BusterBuizel]

Hey, people here aint half bad! Bui Bui! I'm staying!