Because I'm sick of it.

Yeah, have you guessed? I really fucking hate Jurassic Park fanboys who whine about Raptors having feathers. It's as if putting feathers on a dinosaur somehow makes them effeminate, or less intimidating. Maybe these tards should take an attack from an angry eagle or cassowarry, and then try and whine. It ires me even more, that the public mistakenly thinks that this is how they looked....

So yeah, please, you just have to put on your big boy pants and deal with it, the image you grew up with is wrong, reality has thoroghly bitch-slapped it.

People might take this to mean that I dont like the movie "Jurassic Park", but that would be wrong. I love the movie, I was in the perfect age demographic to go insanely obsessed about it when it came out.

It was at this stage that I went to the library and found Greg Paul's "Predatory Dinosaurs of the World". Initially I was incredulous, but after reading time and again how birdlike they were, and seeing Bakker illustrate them with feathers even before Paul did, it sunk in. I wasnt too surprised that about 3 years later, Sinosauropteryx was found, and feathered dinosaurs were confirmed. Thus, my childish infatuation with JP raptors quickly subsided.

Update:

However, I do not for a second deny that scaly theropods are cool. I view the JP raptors as genetic monstrosities that are as much of whatever was used to fill the DNA gaps, as dinosaurs. As Alan Grant said, INGEN simply made theme park monsters. We can simply assume that an inordinate amount of lizard and frog DNa was used to fill in the sequence gaps, and somehow, the feather genes were not recovered. In the Jurassic Park book, Dr Wu wonders about this himself, contemplating just how much of the dinosaurs composition is natural, and what is simply borne of mad science tampering.

I have a slight romantic soft spot for scaly theropods, but only because they remind me of beliggerent, pissed of lizards with chicken legs. I'm sure there may have been primitive theropods which were scaly, unless feathers is basal to the ornithodira complely, which it may be. Still, if JP used scaly Hererrasaurus in their next movie, I would be happily fan-tarding about that.