A Quandry

[llamallamallama]

I made another pilgrimage to Massachusetts this weekend - Boston on Friday and Saturday, and Amherst yesterday. Last night Sarah, her boyfriend, her friend Miranda and I got pho and ice cream, and this morning Kate took me to Miss Florence's Cafe in Florence. All the tables had their own tiny jukeboxes, and we chose "Rocket Man" and "Let it Be."

Comments

[idothattopeople]

That letter to Jade is incredibly funny!

[ilya1]

My gut reaction is that he's making it up. That may be just my Internet acculturation speaking.

[llamallamallama]

That's interesting, because Laura thought it was real precisely because she's seen such weird things on the internet.

I don't know, though. I think it's one thing to post weird things about yourself on, say, a message board about a fetish. But to write into a mainstream-ish porn mag and say that you save your jizz? I don't know. I believe someone does it, but not that they wanted Jade to know.

Although in this mag - and many others, I'm sure - the supposed responses from the models were full of lines like "I love all cocks." So. Maybe there's an atmosphere of acceptance I'm not getting. On the other hand, to say that porn has an atmosphere of acceptance seems pretty ironic. Maybe for men?

[ilya1]

Well, I've seen a lot of strange things on the internet, but I've also seen a lot of people making stuff up to provoke reactions. I think Dan Savage has said that he gets a lot of obviously fake letters, which might be a more direct analogy. Of course, absent any context, it's impossible to know if someone is a troll or not.

[ueberkatester]

I feel like those letters are all fake! Letters written to the editors of Cosmo, letters to Jade - FAKE! I've never been so moved by a magazine piece that I'd thought to write a letter, let alone send it...
Then again, that Bob story is convincing.

It was so good to see ye! Friends!

[llamallamallama]

On the other hand (to contradict what I wrote above...), I guess we can never underestimate people's desire for weird recognition. See: reality TV, the world in general. I mean, it's SUCH a good story, like you said. I only wish I'd read this before Mary G's workshop. I have a feeling I could've written a story she'd have loved from this inspiration.

It was so good to see you, too! I'm sad you'll no longer be a mere 3-4 hours away soon. Midwest visits?

[ueberkatester]

You better believe it! There shall be Midwest visits, complete with Tastee-Freeze (or our cities' equivalents)...