'Syrian lesbian' blogger turns out to be...married, male, American knob-end

IdleRich

IdleRich

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"But if MacMaster is experiencing any pain, he brought it upon himself by hatching a scheme to gain attention and recognition for his writing (as one of his friends acknowledged) that ended up undermining a revolutionary movement already confronted with brutal state repression. MacMaster’s family and friends should have told him the hard truth, but they don’t seem to know what it is. Instead, they impulsively coddled him and praised his actions. For all they seem to know, Syria is a far away place filled with a faceless “oppressed population.” So who are the “liberal Orientalists?” And to what degree did MacMaster share their sensibilities?"
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Broadly agree with this but I think it's a bit much to say that he has "undermined a revolutionary movement". I'm with Padraig, the twittering and facebooking etc don't make the revolution and for the same reason they can't destroy it either. Not to say that he hasn't possibly endangered individuals or further confused understanding between people in the West and those in the Middle East.
 
Mr. Tea

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But he has undeniably given ammunition to all the authoritarian regimes in the region who love to say that pro-democracy protesters are all stooges of the West, hasn't he?
 
vimothy

vimothy

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The reason that MacMaster is getting so roundly condemned in the courts of public opinion is not that he "undermined a revolutionary movement", but rather that he made us all look like a bunch of idiots.
 
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mistersloane

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I don't get what the fuss is about. Does anyone think blogs are real? If identity is fluid through internet then all he was doing was writing a book, and carrying on that process. I love the fact that the other woman was a guy as well. It's great.

And surely it should have been 'I fucked a woman (and I liked it)'. Though Pete was married for years, he only caught gay through watching Dr Who and having botox.
 
vimothy

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The bird flies free
Knowing no boundaries
Borders mean nothing
When you have wings​

--Amina Abdallah Arraf

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Blog seems to be down now (can't imagine why) but I like this entry:

10 April

My hijab, my choice

I consciously considered myself as a feminist and as someone who believes in human rights and the equality of all. But I'm also an Arab and a Muslim. And I covered. And no one made me do it; I chose it.
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What can you say about this pair of sentences? Their combined effect is so squishy and feel-good, if Amina didn't exist it would obviously be necessary to invent her...
 
vimothy

vimothy

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It's a trap!

mistersloane said:
I love the fact that the other woman was a guy as well. It's great.
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Werd. That was really bwahaha. Like the entire thing was scripted by /b/

Rules of The Internet

28. Always question a person's gender - just in case it's really a man.
28.5 If it TRULY is a girl, then this is an INCEPTION!!! Only way out is to die, so look at Chuck Norris the wrong way.
29. On the internet, all girls are men, and all kids are undercover FBI agents.
30. There are NO girls on the internet.
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33. When in doubt, it's a man. (Also see Rule 30)
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Mr. Tea

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mistersloane said:
And surely it should have been 'I fucked a woman (and I liked it)'. Though Pete was married for years, he only caught gay through watching Dr Who and having botox.
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He's married to a bloke now, they were on Celebrity Wife Swap. It was brilliant, Pete was the 'wife' but he's just a total lad - he got on really well with the ex-Chelsea footballer living the dream in a grotesque 'mansion' in Essex with his former Page 3 model wife (paired off with Pete's super-fem 'husband') and loads of huge dogs. He didn't have a clue what to do with the guy's baby and was totally lost in the kitchen, so they just ended up ordering a curry, drinking lager and watching football. It was beautiful.
 
highhhness

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vimothy said:
The reason that MacMaster is getting so roundly condemned in the courts of public opinion is not that he "undermined a revolutionary movement", but rather that he made us all look like a bunch of idiots.
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and is also a complete cock. in a couple of different ways.
 
luka

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tea forgot to mention that the footballer was none other than razor ruddock which made the whole thing even funnier. i wouldnt describe burns as a lad but i did enjoy th episode, my favourite bit was
'if i go tenereife, you gotta go elevenerife'
which is the sort of line you'd hear every night at the dogs. sort of vaudeville but i like it anyway.
 
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mistersloane

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That was a great episode, might have to watch it again now. I was secretly hoping that Pete was gonna turn Razor and they'd run off together. Pete Burns was made for television, he was great on Big Brother was well, like a moving Westwood dummy.
 
Mr. Tea

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mistersloane said:
I was secretly hoping that Pete was gonna turn Razor and they'd run off together.
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That would be amazing...like Thelma and Louise...

I think Playboy should break out from the stifling conventions of heteronormative soft porn and do a centre-page special featuring Pete Burns and Genesis P-Orridge.

Edit: this has to go down as one of our most-derailed threads ever.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

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Obviously I missed this but are you saying that the woman who thought that she was in a relationship with the fake Syrian woman was also in fact a man? That's brilliant.
 
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