Best format for the Gay Girl in Damascus saga
A cartoon.
I thought I was done with the Gay Girl in Damascus saga (about how a pedestrian American writer and activist found fame and sparked international panic by staging the abduction of a nonexistent Syrian lesbian on the Internet) with my post yesterday (I boldly suggested we shouldn't trust everything we read on the Internet).
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But the revelation that the lesbian blogger who was one of "Gay Girl's" main promoters was also a straight, middle-aged American man, sucked me back in. The two carried on an online flirtation, neither knowing (apparently) that the other was a fraud. I spent the evening yesterday thinking tangled thoughts about pseudonymity, anonymity, and the collision of fact and fiction on the Internet. Ok, that, and laughing a lot.
Well, the good people at Next Media Animation in Taiwan have distilled the story to its essence. In a cartoon. Enjoy.




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