Comments on: Speaking of fiction . . .

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:05:53 +0000

Leanne; Nice to see you on my turf for a change . I thought it was only polite to let folks know where I found the article to begin with. However, considering the quality of the social commentary found in Liliane Bi-Dyke (which I highly recommend, folks . . . .just go to http://liliane.keenspace.com/), this may not be the last time I link to your site. Cheers!

By: Leanne

Leanne — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:14:47 +0000

Hello! Well, it is nice to have anthropolgists linking to liliane! I would personally be fascinated by an anthropological study of the differences of the people and mindsets that find children coloring rainbows to be evidence of the imminent fall of western civilisation (and yes there are frighteningly large groups of very internet-savvy and vocal people who believe this literal God Hates Fags, Fags=Devil worldview) and the people and mindsets who find children coloring rainbows to be appreciating all the varieties of people, as the varieties of natural phenomenon (the spectrum of lightwaves in white made evident in the rainbow). It would be even more interesting if it weren’t so frightening. Thank god machetes aren’t as popular here yet as in Rwanda. Cheers!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:58:24 +0000

Funny. That's not the gay agenda I saw...

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:24:32 +0000

Sorry Kerim, it was just that the first link led nowhere for some reason.

Ozma – I just noticed that the gay agenda doesn’t mention eating breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Ha! I’m on to the true gay agenda. The old Lake Trasimene ploy, huh? Attack before they’ve had breakfast? Obviously the gay agenda is a plot to weaken straights for the imminent gay takeover.

As an aside, I kind of feel bad for using gay and homosexual interchangeably, but the joke flows better this way.

By: Ozma

Ozma — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:04:26 +0000

Jesse — ooh, if that gay agenda fell into the wrong hands heaven knows what might happen!
Bob — hmm, makes one want to see Ghanain horror films!

By: Kerim

Kerim — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:34:27 +0000

Jesse, If your post gets picked up as SPAM we will likely recover it in the moderation queue. Be patient 🙂

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:36:11 +0000

This? Look, I mostly played Tetris over the Internet during my programming class in high school, okay?

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/4/28l.html

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:33:54 +0000

Silly fools. Everyone knows that this is the homosexual agenda.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:09:58 +0000

So they’re hounds?

Doing fieldwork, I was lucky enough to live in a rural Ghanaian village when the first colour TV came. People would gather daily to watch soccer broadcasts, and then the strange BBC programming that Ghanaian TV stations got either for free or at a discount. The TV hadn’t been there a week before I was asked if Teletubbies were demons.

By: Ozma

Ozma — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:31:10 +0000

I don’t know if the comments were real or not, but the satire does skirt the edge of the possible! I attended college in the southern United States, and had a very nice, very evangelical roommate my second year there. She had a whole collection of Left Behind-esque literature (though I don’t think the LB series existed then). Anyway, a subplot in one book involved children being seduced by Satan’s minions because they were encouraged to indulge their imaginations at preschool; when the poor little tykes let their minds run free a seemingly innocuous “imaginary friend” in the form of a pink unicorn took the opportunity to cozy up to their unguarded souls. [the demonic imaginary friend to a vulnerable child is a plot device in the Exorcist, too]. anyway, it sounds utterly crazy — unless the world view informing it is literally correct. If El Naughty Supremo does indeed exist, and will indeed use any sneaky machination possible to seduce us, my goodness. Tinky Winky might well be a hound of hell.