June 13, 2011

The Lesbian Syrian Fat White Male MidEast Activist of Damascus, Scotland, or "On the internet nobody knows if you are really a dyke"

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"Is that you, Amina, or just a brilliant disguise?"

In this new double-entendre world into which we have drifted, the Washington Post is to be forgiven for headlining the story,‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’ comes clean. Not so the fat fake lesbian named Tom MacMaster who hoodwinked untold thousands by giving himself an online sex change for (Isn't it always?) 'the greater good.' It ended (Doesn't it always?) in tears at bedtime:

In a posting on her blog, “A Gay Girl in Damascus,” a cousin said Amina had been hauled away by government security agents. News of her disappearance became an Internet and media sensation. The U.S. State Department started an investigation. But almost immediately skeptics began asking: Had anyone ever actually met Amina? On Wednesday, pictures of her on the blog were revealed to have been taken from a London woman’s Facebook page.
Regardless of the "news" frisson surrounding this -- Howard Stern learned long ago that the word or even vague concept of "lesbian" brought in the rubes -- this is one of the oldest cons on the internet. So old and musty that I was already writing in 1993 about a 'naked lady' whose book I'd published in the late 80s.

Oldest con on the net, kids. And yet it survives because it works. And it works not because fat white male "Mideast activists" are so clever, but because many thousands want, really, really, really want there to be, deep in Damascus in the midst of the shooting and the repression and the tyranny and the killing, one still small voice for freedom who is not only nice but, better yet, gay and, best of all, female. It makes for the double-hero sandwich of online existence. And it is not even the revelation of the fat white male activist that is the big let-down here. The big bummer is that there is no heroic lesbian in Damascus after all. And there should be, by gum, there should be.

The fantasy for these supporters of "A Gay Girl in Damascus" is that somehow a 'gay' girl exists that is brave and forthright and willing to speak "truth to power" from within the belly of the beast. It's a leftoid fantasy and that's why so many bought it. The reality is something else again.

The reality is that, along with the rest of the population, those who are gay inside rabid dictatorial regimes such as Syria and Iran are not safe from repression, imprisonment, torture, and execution. And those who are gay inside these regimes know this to a fare thee well. They might be willing to speak out but typically only after they get out. To someplace safe in the ever more tolerant west. Someplace like, say, Edinburgh, Scotland. Someplace so free that even a fat, white, male "mideast activist" can change himself into a young, dusky, slender hot lesbian.... and get away with it because, well, people just "want to believe" in six impossible things before breakfast.

On his/her blog page (Previously called A Gay Girl in Damascus but now titled A Hoax: Apology to readers the arguably masculine author drops the butch and goes deep fem with the winsome statement: "I never expected this level of attention."

As my gray haired mother would say, "Yeah. Right."

Posted by Vanderleun at June 13, 2011 7:25 AM
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Same league as the fake war vets, race hate victims, and others just trying to 'raise awareness'. I guess they ran out of colored ribbons for Missing Lesbian Deep in the Heart of Syria.

Posted by: Jewel at June 13, 2011 8:41 AM

I'm willing to Bomb the Gay Whales for Allah. Anywhere in the deserts of Iran, Egypt or Syria. Locked and Loaded, with shrink-wrapped Greenpeace Dorks.

Posted by: Peccable at June 13, 2011 10:59 AM

I know this Tom McMaster. However, American Digest needs to report things correctly. He didn't say "dyke" but DOG. There is a big difference. He went by the name of McNasty and I want to slit his throat that SOB insulting Islam and embarassing Muslims. He calls himself a peace activist!! Fucking C**t.

Posted by: Asad at June 13, 2011 3:40 PM