"A Gay Girl in Damascus" revealed to be a hoax persona. A straight male rights blogger uses a lesbian sockpuppet in order to be taken more seriously. [xpost documentaries]

2016-01-23T22:44:29+00:00

Just Another Fairytale Lesbian Blogger From Damascus

The eminently credible mainstream media was all aflame last Tuesday with reports that a prominent lesbian blogger in Syria had been captured by armed-and-hairy secret police who were none too pleased with her lesbian blogging. It was presumed that at the very least, her hatefully oily captors would administer a lesbian flogging.

Without bothering to so much as toss in a “reportedly” or “allegedly,” places such as CBS News, MSNBC, TIME, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and the Guardian posted articles on June 7 claiming that Sapphic Syrian was in the clutches of homophobic Islamist militarists.

Then, suddenly sometime last week, NPR’s Andy Carvin acted as if he was the Last Reporter on Earth and decided to check some facts. He said that his contacts in Syria’s gay community claimed they had never heard of an “Amina Arraf.” Then it occurred to him that no one on Earth had ever said they’d met Amina in the flesh. Then a Croatian woman in London said that her ex-husband contacted her after seeing pictures in the media that claimed she was the kidnapped Syrian blogger. The woman, Jelena Lecic, said that this “Amina Arraf” person had stolen an estimated 200 pictures of her and had used them on her blog and a Facebook profile. Finally, it was revealed that all of the online correspondence that “Amina” had done with others was traceable to a pair of IP addresses in Edinburgh, Scotland, neither of which was available for use as a proxy. When reporters and government officials worldwide could find no trace of an “Amina Arraf” ever existing, it became clear that there was no Gay Girl in Damascus.

This morning it was revealed that “Amina Arraf” is actually a 40-year-old Scottish activist named Tom MacMaster. He said that although nothing he wrote was actually true, he was trying to “illumine” events that actually were true by, well, writing things that were completely untrue.

Last week was a great week for lesbians coming out of the closet — coming out, that is, as middle-aged heterosexual men.

On Sunday, Amina Arraf, the young vivacious Syrian lesbian activist whose inspiring blog "A Gay Girl in Damascus" had captured hearts around the world, was revealed to be, in humdrum reality, one Tom MacMaster, a 40-year-old college student from Georgia. The following day, Paula Brooks, the lesbian activist and founder of the website LezGetReal, was revealed to be one Bill Graber, a 58-year-old construction worker from Ohio. In their capacity as leading lesbians in the Sapphic blogosphere, "Miss Brooks" and "Miss Arraf" were colleagues. "Amina" had posted at LezGetReal before starting "A Gay Girl In Damascus." As one lesbian to another, they got along swimmingly. The Washington Post reported:

Amina often flirted with Brooks, neither of the men realizing the other was pretending to be a lesbian.

Who knows what romance might have blossomed had not "Amina" been arrested by a squad of Baath Party goons dispatched by Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad. Tom MacMaster then created "Rania," a fake cousin for his fake lesbian, to try to rouse the world to take up the plight of the nonexistent Amina's nonexistent detention.

A "Free Amina!" Facebook page sprang up.

"The Obama Administration must speak about this," declared Peter Beinart, former editor of The New Republic. "This woman is a hero."

On June 7th the State Department announced that it was looking into the "kidnapping."

The pretty young lesbian Muslim was exposed as a portly 40-year-old male infidel at the University of Edinburgh with the help of "Paula Brooks," shortly before "Paula" was exposed as a 58-year-old male construction worker from Ohio. "He would have got away with it if I hadn't been such a stand-up guy," the second phony lesbian said of the first phony lesbian. As to why stand-up guys are posing as sit-down lesbians, "Paula" told the Associated Press that "he felt he would not be taken seriously as a straight man."

"He got that one right," sneered the Toronto gay magazine Xtra.

From CNN to the Guardian to Bianca Jagger to legions of Tweeters, Western liberalism fell for a ludicrous hoax. Why? Because they wanted to. It would be nice if "Amina Arraf" existed. As niche constituencies go, we could use more hijab-wearing Muslim lesbian militants and fewer fortysomething male Western deadbeat college students. But the latter is a real and pathetically numerous demographic, and the former is a fiction — a fantasy for Western liberals, who think that in the multicultural society the nice gay couple at 27 Rainbow Avenue can live next door to the big bearded imam with four child brides at Number 29 and gambol and frolic in admiration of each other's diversity. They will proffer cheery greetings over the picket fence, the one admiring the other's attractive buttock-hugging leather shorts for that day's Gay Pride parade as he prepares to take his daughter to the clitoridectomy clinic.

ThePigmanAgain · 2016-01-23T23:28:56+00:00

Very old story.

redditorriot · 2016-01-24T03:07:44+00:00

Mens rights?

never_said_that · 2016-01-23T21:44:35+00:00

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Title	"A Gay Girl in Damascus" revealed to be a hoax persona. A straight male rights blogger uses a lesbian sockpuppet in order to be taken more seriously. [xpost documentaries]
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Date	January 23, 2016 9:42 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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