[lbo-talk] News of LBO poster

[Catherine Driscoll]

Bizarrely, in a completely different online world there's been a recent scandal
over a woman who invented another online identity and preceded to make friends
with her existing friends as a man. The fall out when this was revealed, by the
suspicious tracing of IP addresses no less, has been incredibly interesting.
Among people who focus on the difficulty of sex and gender all the time,
individually and as a group, this masquerade has generally been taken as the
most heinous deception.

I can't quite picture the Yoshie I've seen on and off for years getting married,
but then as I just said to someone in that other community, when people meet me
in real life they're always surprised. That can't be an accident, it can't be a
coincidence. Perhaps there is to be some real misdirection in how I present
myself in online communities even if I'm not aware of doing it, but I'd rather
think that a person is always so complex that any attempt to represent it even
in dialogue is only going to be so very partial. Certainly it's always
conscious of audience and other narrative contexts.

Catherine

Quoting Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com>:


> The flavor of the whole is perhaps carried by the statement of
> Yoshie's father (translated from Japanese) at the reception; this was
> his first visit to the u.s. since Yoshie came here, and he said that
> after seeing how much she was loved by so many people, he was at
> peace... Carrol
>
> -------------
>
> Congratulations Yoshie and Mike. But, gee, I have to wonder at the
> disjunction between the radical hardcore Yoshie---heart of forged
> commie steel, take no prisoners---I have long come to enjoy, and the
> no doubt sweet looking woman dressed in white, whom her father adores
> and husband admires.
>
> Makes my wine soddened brain wonder at the rest of you devils, raving
> loons, cold cynics, the plotting discontent, grumbing harbingers of
> resentiment and injustice, and the exotic birds who wonder through the
> list jungle possessing netherworld plumes, who suddenly turn their
> predatory eye to incisive vision when I least expect it. Are these
> merely les auteur d'autre vie?
>
> Certainly the best of spectacles for a dinner party at the
> Karamzov's... Why do I imagine Carrol at the wedding feast as the
> ancient mariner?
>
> It is the ancient Mariner,
> And he stoppeth one of three,
> `By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
> Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
>
> ....
>
> But enought of these darkling themes.
>
> All the best.
>
> CG
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