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All lesbian bloggers are actually married men, apparently
By Ray RahmanJune 13th, 2011, 9:00 pmComments (13)
Last week, we told you about the abduction of Amina Arraf, a lesbian writer in Syria responsible for the A Gay Girl in Damscus blog. Then we learned (and also told you, because we care about you) that Amina Arraf may not be a lesbian blogger in Syria but instead some woman in London named Jelena Lecic. Well, now we have more to tell you, and you may want to sit down for this. Yesterday, the Washington Post found out who exactly this Arraf character really is: Tom MacMaster, a forty-year-old married dude from Georgia (our Georgia, no less).
Pretty shitty, right? But wait, it gets shittier! Just today, the Post's Pulitzer-winning Fake Lesbian Desk also revealed that Paula Brooks — the lesbian editor of Lez Get Real, the ironically titled blog that first published "Amina Arraf" before A Gay Girl in Damasus became its own thing — is actually Bill Graber, a fifty-eight-year-old married man living in Ohio. Yikes!
In related news, Arianna Huffington is a retired mechanic from Dayton, Ohio; Julian Assange is a twenty-seven-year-old Jamaican lesbian working as a nurse in Queens; and Nerve.com is a thirteen-year-old girl in a computer lab at her middle school's library.
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Commentarium (13 Comments)
well we already knew about the nerve one
;P
I knew Julian Asange was a lesbian. The almost male characteristics were creepy.
Wait, so lesbians to you look "almost male" and "creepy"? What an original and charming thought.
This old "lesbians are ugly" or "look like men" bit is getting really old, especially when reiterated over and over again by the ugliest and most hygienically-challenged sub-group of them all: (straight) males. Yes, Green, you.
So it's cool for you to slam on another group of people because one person said something ignorant?
How classy, and how progressive of you.
(Also, it was a joke. Like in the article.)
Funny, I was making a joke myself. What, you didn't find my joke funny too?
(... even though straight dudes are ugly, let's be honest).
@AT - Care to justify the "...most hygienecally-challenged sub-group of them all: (straight) males?" Or was that the joke?
On the internet, nobody knows you're really a gay dog
Nice NYer ref!
Well, I'm not married !
Ew, ew, ew. This straight-guys-pretending-to-be-lesbians thing is so fucking gross. It's like listening to Mila Kunis ramble on about how she's a gay man in a woman's body. Can't you just be a fucking straight ally? Imagine if white anti-racist workers put themselves in blackface to further their anti-racism work... that's how bad this is.
What gets annoying is that folks who say "I am a gay man in a woman's body" think they are being novel and clever, like a zillion other people haven't made the same wisecrack.
@completely - Do you feel the same way about transvestites and the transgendered? Human sexuality is very diverse. How dare you judge another's motivations?
I think the bigger story would be if all married men were lesbian bloggers but, hey, that just might be me.
Now you say something