Monday, June 13, 2011

Amina? No- A-Man-a

Why is this man being excoriated for pretending to be a Syrian lesbian on the internet.

Firstly if pretending to be a woman on the internet is a crime then are we not all guilty?

Oh wait that's just me (or 15 year old "Abigail" to be precise).

But secondly isn't the offence he has committed- creating a bogus identity in order to promote his politics- exactly what fraudster Rigoberta Menchu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for back in 1992?

2 comments:

spot said...

"Why is this man being excoriated for pretending to be a Syrian lesbian on the internet" .

There's actually a bit of that going around lately.

Ross said...

We are all lesbians now.