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S.A.M.

S.A.M.

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I've been following Max Blumenthal's blog on the unmasking of "Amina"

see:
http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/06/in...friends-and-family-support-his-hoax/#comments

and I wondered if the Male lesbian is the new internet creation. Googling male lesbian brought me to this article on fake online personas

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life...-type-of-creepy-online-fakery/article2063984/

Note to bored middle-aged men: Got time on your hands? Like sitting in front of the computer? Why not start a lesbian blog?

You won’t be the first to do so. Two American men made headlines around the world this past week when it was revealed they had constructed online personae as lesbian bloggers, the most famous of which was A Gay Girl in Damascus.

This was the riveting blog of “Amina Arraf,” a young and bravely out Syrian-American lesbian in Damascus who attracted international media attention by chronicling both the revolution there and her own personal life in such posts as: “Why I am doing this. I live in Damascus, Syria. It's a repressive police state. Most LGBT people are still deep in the closet or staying as invisible as possible. But I have set up a blog announcing my sexuality, with my name and my photo. Am I crazy? Maybe.”

She wasn’t crazy, just fake – even her photo – and after a breathless narrative that included a supposed kidnapping by Syrian police, and a kind and tolerant father, it was revealed that “Amina” was actually Tom MacMaster, a 40-year-old American graduate student at the University of Edinburgh, married and wanting, he said in one interview, to improve his writing skills.

He sheepishly told The Guardian that he would “apologize personally” to all those he hurt, including presumably a gay Montreal woman who apparently had a steamy six-month online relationship with “Amina.”

To complicate matters further, Mr. MacMaster had posted on Lezgetreal.com, a lesbian blog site whose executive editor “Paula Brooks” turned out to be Bill Graber, a 58-year-old retired construction worker and war vet.
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Say what?

Thoughts? Comments? :p
 
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S.A.M. said:
I've been following Max Blumenthal's blog on the unmasking of "Amina"

see:
http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/06/in...friends-and-family-support-his-hoax/#comments

and I wondered if the Male lesbian is the new internet creation. Googling male lesbian brought me to this article on fake online personas

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life...-type-of-creepy-online-fakery/article2063984/

Say what?

Thoughts? Comments? :p
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An interesting coincidence. The two persons you mention were the focus of an interview on CBC radio just yesterday. I never could quite understand the motivation of the parties involved, even after listening to it.

Perhaps the female persona is interesting to the male of the species, and by posing as a virtual reality Lesbian, they enjoy sharing with other women from a 'safe' perspective, as women will tell other women things that they may not tell a man unless they are personally intimate with them.

Just my thoughts of the moment.....
 
I never could quite understand the motivation of the parties involved
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Yeah Thats what bugged me as well. One was supposedly trying to be the voice of the oppressed Arab woman and the other wanted to improve his writing. But carrying on an online affair for six months with a lesbian and putting real people in danger for imagined activism doesn't give credibility to the first and I'm not sure what improvement in writing can be achieved by deceiving people into thinking you are someone you are not. At least, with the guy heading up Lezgetreal, it can be justified that since he was running a lesbian dating site he adopted a persona which may have been beneficial to his site.
 
S.A.M. said:
Yeah Thats what bugged me as well. One was supposedly trying to be the voice of the oppressed Arab woman and the other wanted to improve his writing. But carrying on an online affair for six months with a lesbian and putting real people in danger for imagined activism doesn't give credibility to the first and I'm not sure what improvement in writing can be achieved by deceiving people into thinking you are someone you are not. At least, with the guy heading up Lezgetreal, it can be justified that since he was running a lesbian dating site he adopted a persona which may have been beneficial to his site.
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It's controversial, there was a pic of a pretty chick, she was allegedly gay (which people find hot).
He was doing it for clicks, ad money.

Some fat bastard blogging about star trek wouldn't get nearly as much attention.
 
S.A.M. said:
Male lesbian
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Well, to be honest I'm usually against fru fru gay trends but something struck quite suddenly the other day. Turns out that I totally get lesbians...I mean who wants to have sex with a man. That's just disgusting.
 
Varda said:
It's controversial, there was a pic of a pretty chick, she was allegedly gay (which people find hot).
He was doing it for clicks, ad money.

Some fat bastard blogging about star trek wouldn't get nearly as much attention.
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Money......That's certainly a motivation for some. The matter of clicks for ad money was not mentioned in the radio interview, or perhaps I missed it.

Thank you, Varda. That rather puts things in a bit different perspective for consideration.....So many looking for a means to 'easy' money.
 
I think a bunch of postop transsexual bulldykes should kick their a$$es.

If they were really lesbians, they'd have genital reassignment surgery.

It takes balls to have your balls taken off, though.
 
Originally Posted by clusteringflux
My god I think I'm a male lesbian...I just hung curtains two weeks ago.
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Varda said:
Meat curtains?
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*chimpkin spews tea*

*looks thoughtful*

Yanno...I've never heard them called that before...creative, I'll give it that... but considering I'm a vegitarian as well as a vagitarian...kinda gross.
 
In the online world, all women are men until there is definitive proof to the contrary. This will just serve to reinforce that essential piece of Internet wisdom.
 
Rosita Colorado

The nearest I can offer you, S.A.M., is that a man pretends to be a lesbian for multiple reasons, including self-loathing as a male, desperation toward a certain aspect of relations with females, and even simple sociopathy.

In the case you've referred, I'll go with the latter according to the demands of the former.

I don't get it.

When it's purely about sexual fantasies, yes, I understand. But the proposition of using one's sexual aspects as a political tool? In this context, I have no idea what to tell you about what was going on in this dude's mind. I'm hesitant to call him an asshole, but at the same time it's hard not to.

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Varda said:

Meat curtains?
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Coincidentally, perhaps, after an evening at Rositas, a friend suggested the phrase "beef curtain", which is in itself as crude as can be. But, having just enjoyed the colorado, I replied with the obvious: skirt steak.

Make of that what you will.
 
When it's purely about sexual fantasies, yes, I understand. But the proposition of using one's sexual aspects as a political tool? In this context, I have no idea what to tell you about what was going on in this dude's mind. I'm hesitant to call him an asshole, but at the same time it's hard not to.
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So it could be rationalisation, painting sexual fantasy with political righteousness? I imagine the scenario isn't far off, where male lesbians on the internet will be courting each other, sublime in the illusion that the other one must be the real thing.
 
clusteringflux said:
My god I think I'm a male lesbian...
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A Mesbian?

Isn't this just another example of how everyone uses the internet to pretend to be something they're not? Ya know, the same thing they want to do in real life but it's made far easier by the anonymity of the internet?
 
South park invented this:

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LOL I found this searching for lesbo Mr Garrison:

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