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Public Discourse => News Media => Topic started by: Conan on August 09, 2013, 07:17:13 pm
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Twitter blew up this afternoon when attendees at IndyFurCon in Indianapolis learned that their hotel (https://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=158) had decided to enact a simple rule: Do not loiter in the lobby in fursuit between the hours of 9AM and 6PM. Why? Well, gee, because there were other people using the hotel (https://twitter.com/SparkyROAR/status/365914275014905856)! Huh!
Of course, this was the WORST THING EVER and prompted a cavalcade of complaints on The Twitter, including calls to protest (https://twitter.com/SparkyROAR/status/365915865406902272), a parody (https://twitter.com/IFCSheraton) twitter, an account dedicated to protesting (https://twitter.com/IFCProtest), and a special meeting (https://twitter.com/PandezPanda/status/365931584043495424). All because the hotel asked fursuiters to stay out of the lobby during the morning and afternoon.
FURRIES.
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What's the point of going to a furry con if you can't have the run of the place? Especially at a smaller con where there isn't much "programming," mostly just a lot of people socializing, in suit, out of suit, and the go-to place for that is the lobby and other public areas of the hotel. For a lot of people the draw is fursuiting in a public area, albeit within the relative safety of an organized event.
If I'm going to drop a not insignificant amount of money to stay the weekend at a furry con hotel, I expect to be able to wander around the whole thing, not just some back room where they shoved all the furries so they wouldn't embarrass anyone. I don't think that wanting to get your "money's worth" out of something is an immature attitude in the least.
IIRC Califur dropped a hotel like a hot sack of crap a few years back because they wouldn't afford the con the entire public space within the hotel. I think the only "reasonable" restriction imposed by a hotel on fursuiting, is the new con in Reno which doesn't allow costumes in the casino.
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IIRC Califur dropped a hotel like a hot sack of crap a few years back because they wouldn't afford the con the entire public space within the hotel. I think the only "reasonable" restriction imposed by a hotel on fursuiting, is the new con in Reno which doesn't allow costumes in the casino.
Costumers in the casino had a bit of security worries, too... Here's a con report about that. (This link will turn you gay:)
http://www.flayrah.com/4906/biggest-little-fur-con-breaks-records-excites-onlookers