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Another wonderful post!!:)
Posted by Dissident on 2002-April-18 07:10:52, Thursday
In reply to She's recently gotten her due in the media. posted by harbor boy on 2002-April-17 20:27:47, Wednesday
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Hi, Harbor Boy,
Again, you put me to shame with an excellent post!!:) I too can't stand listening to the dreck about MAA's on those talk shows. As a matter of fact, HB, that segment about the Latin American girl who was "brainwashed" into loving an AM in his late 30's...that same girl was on a recent episode of "Sally Jesse Rapheal," so this girl is becoming a celebrity manufactured victim to tout before the cameras about the "evil" of MAA's, if such a thing is possible.
When I saw this girl's story on Sally's show, it was VERY obvious in what manner this girl was "brainwashed." She met the man at age 14 on the Net, and the two became very good friends over the course of two years, and they fell in love during that time. The man was obviously very lonely, but far from sociopathic, and this girl filled a void in his life in the same manner that an adult woman would if he was talking to her...love is love, plain and simple. When she was 16, and he had to travel to the U.S. on business, he suggested that they meet. The girl was having many problems at home, and it was obvious on the show how controlling and difficult her mother was. Of course, MAA's are always accused of "exploiting" the emotional problems of TG's at home to "lure them into their clutches"...regardless of the fact that in a world with a different legal system, these girls would probably very often benefit from getting out of those houses, and this is why the U.S. is full of teen and even tween runaways who are mistakenly reported as "missing" and "kidnapped" by the Center For Missing And Exploited Children...are MAA's to blame for all of this, or even the bulk of it, as John Walsh would have us believe?
Well, the BIG mistake the guy and that girl made (and fellows, PLEASE take heed of this) was to run away together, because both of them had a life they wanted to escape from, and the other offered each of them a way out (the girl wanted to get away from an abusive household, and the man wanted to escape from lonliness, both very natural). Thus, the man was charged with kidnapping (i.e., he "stole" someone else's property, just as Huckleberry Finn was accused of doing when he helped his friend, the slave Jim, to escape from his owners). Eventually, the two of them had sex, so the man could now be accused of statuatory rape, sexual assault, unlawful activity with a minor, or whatever they call it in the state he was convicted in. The police eventually located the two where they were living, and the girl and the man barricaded themselves in a room together (the girl did so willingly, as this was before she underwent her "therapy"). The police eventually broke in, the man was arrested, and the girl was dragged home...and then into behavior modifying "therapy."
The girl's "therapy" was VERY evident during her conversation on that show. When she was asked by Sally whose idea was it to first become intimate with each other, she stumbled over the question, and didn't give an adequate answer except as if to say, in not so many words, that it was mutual. The girl was obviously going through the motions of telling Sally and her less then enlightened audience what they wanted to hear, as if she was following a script given to her via months of "therapy." Finally, my latter assertion became very evident when she was asked by Sally what she thought about the man at this point. The girl said something along these lines: "well...I still care about his welfare as a person...but I'm...but now I know I was never really in love with him...and that what he did was wrong...but I still hope he is okay." An approving mom then started her lecture about how this can happen to you, you need to monitor your kids' activities on the computer at all times, men like her daughter's former BF are just waiting to exploit family problems to "take advantage" of a TG, blah, blah, blah.
In the course of that convo, I got the distinct impression that the man was not a hebephile, and the girl was likewise not adult-attracted...they were just two people who fell in love, because both were lacking it in their real lives. In another time period, they may likely have lived happily ever after.
Thank you for another great contribution, HB:) And again, make sure that you save this post...it definately needs to go on GLGarden, along with your other excellent post on trash talk shows from a few months back:)
Your friend,
--Dissident
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