Seen a bunch of articles on microsoft news today about furry litterboxes in schools, seems to have popped up from no where. Is this the GOPs October surprise BS?
I have been to multiple furry conventions, and visited multiple furries in their homes across the country. I have also been known to do the catgirl thing. I have never seen a a furry use a litterbox. I have also never heard of a furry even using that sort of thing to roleplay a animal or cat. I have seen and heard of furries having animal food bowls and animal play things for themselves. There is a reason furries do not play around in a litterbox. Shit and piss are hard to get out of the materials you use for your fursuit. It is hard enough to get body odor out of those suits, and no one is going to play with the furry who has shit kabangers hanging all over their paws. Even a hotel that hosts a furrycon does not allow the placement of litter boxes to make it's guests happy because health code regulations. I have been out in the woods with these people, and they take care to remove their pants to shit and piss and use toilet paper. Let me also say this is pure projection because I am sure some of these republican people play with their shit in a box. It is what always happens. We are going to find out MTG has a box in her office full of her crap that she loves to sniff and rub her fingers through. Republicans are just mad at the thought furries are getting away with things they wish they could do because using a toilet is too much of a challenge for animals like them.
Y'know what celebrity pooped in a litterbox for real? George Clooney. He played a prank on Nathan Lane where he used a scooper to steal his cat's shit so it looked like the cat was constipated, then 2-3 weeks of that later, he put his own human sized shit in there so it looked like the cat laid a monster shit-baby. So, yeah, take up your litterbox stuff up with George Clooney.
For the record let's note that it's bullshit. Some gullible moron in MI read it on Facebook, went to a school board meeting and repeated it with embellishment, scores of other idiots crippled by confirmation bias but having more influence picked it up (most recently Joe Rogan discussing it With Tulsi) and, sensing an opening, at least 20 Republican candidates including Bobert are running with it. Despite the fact that anyone with three functioning brain cells would know it's bullshit. Some schools DO keep litter on hand - they have since Columbine because you never know when you're going to be locked down for 4-5 hours. Has nothing to do with furries. How an urban myth about litter boxes in schools became a GOP talking point (nbcnews.com) At least 20 conservative candidates and elected officials have claimed this year that K-12 schools are placing litter boxes on campus or making other accommodations for students who identify as cats, according to an NBC News review of public statements. Every school district that has been named by those 20 politicians said either to NBC News or in public statements that these claims are untrue. There is no evidence that any school has deployed litter boxes for students to use because they identify as cats. But the claim has taken on a life of its own among a growing number of Republicans, conservative influencers and political commentators. In an episode of Spotify’s “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast this week, host Joe Rogan told former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard that a litter box was installed in a school that his friend’s wife worked at for a girl who “identifies as an animal.” A clip of the discussion quickly began to circulate on social media. Rogan did not name the school, and his publicist did not respond to a request for comment. There is a real subculture of people known as furries, a community of children and adults who roleplay as anthropomorphized animal characters. But the vast majority of them still identify as humans, while sometimes adopting an animal-like persona and engaging in short-term roleplay, according to furries and experts, one of whom noted that there are no litter boxes at furry conventions. Three school-age furries told NBC News they have at times dressed up at school, typically wearing just part of their full costume such as a mask or gloves that look like paws, but they’d never heard of any furry ever asking for a litter box. That has not stopped such rumors from circulating on social media, where they have been repeated like a game of telephone, often with descriptions of friends of friends who supposedly saw such things firsthand. And it has not stopped some politicians from picking up these claims and using them to alarm people by saying that this is where protections for LGBTQ students will lead. “What’s most provocative about this hoax is how it turns on two key wedge issues for conservatives: educational accommodations and gender nonconformity,” said Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and co-author of “Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America.” The rise of the litter box rumor shows the power of false claims that start on social media to shape political discourse. And it demonstrates how quickly some elements of truth can be twisted and mashed up with fully debunked assertions to create a viral narrative amplified by prominent politicians, as well as commentators with large audiences. “It’s only used to kind of sensationalize untruth, and to harm our community, in particular our transgender, nonbinary and gender-expansive youth,” said Nadine Bridges, executive director of One Colorado, an LGBTQ rights organization, when asked about the litter box rumors. “Why would you attack our most vulnerable to get your point across, especially since the point is baseless?” NBC News found one example of a school district keeping cat litter on campuses for students to use — but it had nothing to do with accommodating children who identify as animals. In Colorado, GOP gubernatorial nominee Heidi Ganahl insisted in several recent interviews that students were dressing and identifying as cats, disrupting class, and the state’s schools were tolerating it. Some children, she alleged, would only communicate in barks and hisses. Her campaign declined to answer questions about Ganahl’s claims, but in one interview with a local Fox affiliate, she suggested “there’s a lot of this going on” in Jefferson County. The Jefferson County school district disputed Ganahl’s claims and said its dress code prohibits costumes at school. The district — where Columbine High School is located — has been stocking classrooms with small amounts of cat litter since 2017, but as part of “go buckets” that contain emergency supplies in case students are locked in a classroom during a shooting. The buckets also contain candy for diabetic students, a map of the school, flashlights, wet wipes and first aid items. “This thing has gotten out of control with politicians just wanting to have a talking point,” said John McDonald, former director of campus safety at Jefferson County schools, who’s now a school security consultant. The wave of misinformation reflects discontent among many conservatives around how the concepts and politics of gender identity are rapidly shifting.
It also sounds true in accordance with right wing fear mongering. It takes the acceptance of GLBT people to a ridiculous extreme that has been a running gag on the right wing media. Omg, what if we had people identifying as cats does that mean that we need to respect them. This actual troll is old. Way back in the 90's the usenet troll community came into the group that I was on where we discussed therianthropy which was the "shifting" methods of becoming an animal. Most of it was dreaming and trance type connection, but there was discussion of actual physical transforming which would have been really painful and heat creating. That aside, one of the trolls decided to start posting as a werecar. As a joke to poke fun at many of the absurd people he made a persona of a person who was a werepontiac nicknamed ponty. I have to admit the guy was creative and some of the absurdity of the community was highlighted. No, it was not me, but I did play with him. This has always been a question that has hit the furry community since I discovered it back in the mid 90s. I always wondered why everyone was some cool predatory type animal when prey was so much more likely. Why were people with wolf spirits always afraid of the woods and seemed to be solitary geeks on computers? where were the werecows because I needed a good snack. some of the confrontations actually served a purpose in exploration of transgender ideas. How can I know what it really means to be a woman if I do not have a period every month, or the option of pregnancy was never something I was presented with? Even a cis female who has reproductive problems has more involvement in carrying a baby than I do because it just is never an option. How does that effect your psychology when that becomes a base point of your development and position in society. My purpose was nt to deny the trans condition, but rather to understand how that applied top my gender dysphoria and connection to being female. Interesting for me was here was a community of cisgendered people who could explore the ideas of a differing physical and mental identification. There was a lot of similarities in the opposition and abuse of the furry community. There is also a lot of similarity of how the lose their shit over any doubt of their stories and mutual support of bullshit. The agreement of the liars seemed to be I will never question you if you never question me. This was an opening for grifters to come in and start claiming bullshit for money from the desperate.
I would also point out that one of the reasons this all seems like it might happen is karens and dog owners. Because you can badger faculty and managers down so people can break the rules the entitled think that somehow a mom of a furry kid can pitch a fit and get a litterbox into a school. Sort of like how you have every right winger with as little shit dog now has a service dog because their sex therapist said they need a dog. Since we allow shit covered mops everywhere because entitled old white people can't leave their ill mannered dog at home people think you could put a box of shit and piss in a rest room in a school because some old whiny karen forced you to. It seems like it might be possible when you see these assholes putting their dog into the produce and on the checkout counter at the supermarket where you have to put your food. It might be possible because their dog is barking and shitting under the table at a food service place and no one is saying no to these assholes. On top of that we all know the teachers had to allow kids to have cell phones in school because the karens insisted. If the parents whine loud enough your kids can now have their video games in class. On top of that we see what the class looks like after we let the parents allow their kids to behave poorly and stop backing the teachers. Maybe if we started to actually say no to entitled white people in schools and public who bring shit covered dogs into food place, and let kids have video games in class this might not be so easily believed. Maybe if we did not have some dude bring his dirty old assault rifle into taco bell we might realize being a karen won't get you a litter box in school. Since no is a word people like @Lanzman do not want to hear or else they will shoot up the place, perhaps eventually some karen might birth a furry kitten and force the school to have a litterbox for them? We need to start enforcing rules on the entitled white wing karens so they know the rules do apply. If you get away with having your gun, dog, or cell phone everywhere then to you maybe someone might have a litterbox. It is called projection.
Thanks Nova, interesting to see how that all developed. Ive been claiming Rogan got trolled by the troll kingdom on message boards.
