A classic case of "Get off my side. You're making my side look bad." Even if it isn't exactly the same side.
Yes! Ohmigod! Someone's blondie bear's a twenty-question genius!
Harmony ,'Help'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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DebetEsse - Jul 09, 2006 5:57:05 pm PDT #7762 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
deborah grabien - Jul 09, 2006 6:20:53 pm PDT #7763 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Nah, it's all the way different from yours, Allyson. Hers seems to be about her inability to cope in realtime. Yours are about how the online community nourishes and enhances and occasionally infuriates.
Apples and oranges.
erikaj - Jul 09, 2006 6:47:12 pm PDT #7764 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
such a freak.
Strega - Jul 09, 2006 6:47:16 pm PDT #7765 of 10001
As usual, I don't understand what's annoying.
Or what implies that she's unable to cope in realtime.
erikaj - Jul 09, 2006 6:51:17 pm PDT #7766 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Just seems like she uses the net for her vibrator or something. "I'm great, right? Still love me?" And this is where you'll be polite and pretend not to remember my e-mail folder of compliments.
DebetEsse - Jul 09, 2006 6:55:02 pm PDT #7767 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
That's different, erika. That's you-the-writer, not you-the-person (fine as the distinction may be). She's looking for validation as a person from what she's portraying as deeply shallow relationships.
erikaj - Jul 09, 2006 6:57:34 pm PDT #7768 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Sounds like it anyway.
Allyson - Jul 09, 2006 7:06:19 pm PDT #7769 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
As usual, I don't understand what's annoying.
That she gets to be in th NYT with her crappy story about 'net communities, and I'm not.
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2006 7:12:42 pm PDT #7770 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How does one get a story in the NYT?
deborah grabien - Jul 09, 2006 10:05:51 pm PDT #7771 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Or what implies that she's unable to cope in realtime.
The entire tone of the essay, for one thing. The entire first half of it, for another. And that she pretty much announces it. As erika says, this is a vibrator. I'd expect it in Cosmo, not the NYT.
How does one get a story in the NYT?
By knowing or being published by someone who is part of a remarkably incestuous little community, or at least that's one way.
Having either hung out with Howard Fast's fourteenth cousin over lunch at Sardis in 1963 is another surefire way.
Or you could have a friend at Vogue. That never hurts.