In which Life Imitates Art

[dolorous_ett]

 Was I the only person who thought of mina_de_malfois  - not to mention dreamer_marie 's famous Pseucide Games - on reading this story?Especially the bit where he gets his sockpuppet arrested by the secret police because he's realised he's got all out of his depth?

Not really a funny story, and I certainly don't endorse behaving in that way.

Comments

[dolorous_ett]

Oh, I completely agree, it's revolting, and a whole different level of seriousness. The only parallels are some of the things Tom Whatsit is trotting out in justification of his awful behaviour.

[snorkackcatcher]

It gets even more bizarre and Minaish, apparently.

[dolorous_ett]

What is the matter with these people?

[dolorous_ett]

Also, have you seen this? And how Second Fake Lesbian says what he did is totally OK because he outed Amina?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13760208

[snorkackcatcher]

The definition of chutzpah used to be murdering your parents and then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. Clearly this is the postmodern version.

[tree_and_leaf]

I suppose we should just be grateful he didn't try to blame it on the nanny.

[dolorous_ett]

One small crumb of comfort in an otherwise really awful tale. I started out grinning at the ooh, mina, sockpuppets! element, and ended up just really depressed about the world.

[tree_and_leaf]

I know; it's a really nasty story, when you come down to it.

[nineveh_uk]

Not to mention that the media outlets really didn't need Charlotte Lennox levels of investigation to have worked out it was a fake.

[dolorous_ett]

That's certainly true. In fact, it wasn't that long ago that I was reading an article somewhere about this same poor young woman and her awful life...