Letters to the Editor
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how to spot a fake
Waldman says Leroy spoke of SRS (sex reassignment surgery) as "hacking it off," a sure sign that they don't know what they're talking about. SRS uses penile-inversion vaginoplasty, basically it's still there, it just goes in instead of out. It's reshaped, not discarded. This is a little-known fact, except to those who have actually learned something about the subject. It would have been easy to research the facts about SRS if you wanted to claim that status, but "Leroy" seems to have been careless with the facts.
I hope the fraud won't reflect badly on transsexuals. Probably not, since they had nothing to do with it.
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What drivel ...
Why is this crap the lead story? Who gives a flying fart that Waldman is so stupid? And if she is so stupid, why are you paying her to write for Salon?
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The writers Judgment in assessing JT Leroy
You must be joking. It would require that you be a complete imbecile to believe any of the pap this hoaxter was spewing and demonstrates an incredible naivety and a dearth of stupidity on your part. What fool, besides somone who is content to send monday to Benny Hinn after one of his religious broadcasts, would believe the utter bullshit that is JT Leroy. You should listen to your husband more often. He is the sane one in your family.
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BOYCOTT
REMEMBER PEOPLE, WE'RE BOYCOTTING AYELET!
Any response at all only feeds her narcicistic princess ego.
Any click to read an article gives the falst impression that Salon readers want more Ayelet.
STOP, don't click, don't read, don't comment.
Silence is the best tool here.
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That's IT
That's it. I will not click on one more story by AW. I love Salon, her column's not worthy of it, and I won't encourage it further.
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In a nutshell...
Ayelet Waldman writes that she may have been fooled by J.T. Leroy because
"...he gave me the opportunity to feel completely sane and secure."
Judging from some of her previous columns, that must be a rare experience.
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Who the #$^&! is JT Leroy and who the #@#% cares?
Who the #$^&! is JT Leroy and who the #@#% cares?
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Why I'm joining the Waldman boycott (copy of letter to premiumhelp)
Ayelet Waldman's writing is NOT the kind of cool stuff for which I subscribe to Salon. It's self-congratulatory, particularly about characteristics that seem, to me, to be pretty dysfunctional, such as her super-attachment parenting style. It's navel-gazing in the worst way - assuming that all her readers live in the exact same upper-class and literarily-oriented world that she does. It's often exploitative of her children (and yes, I did read the piece a while back that she wrote in response to accusations of her exploiting her children, and that did _not_ make me feel any better about it.)
Today's article being the lead story - what the heck is up with that? I didn't even know who JT Leroy was, and I'm a librarian with an interest in kids literature. The headline piqued my interest just because I didn't know what it was actually talking about, and I clicked without noticing the Waldman byline. But within the first couple of paragraphs I recognized the weirdly self-congratulatory tone - I kept reading in hopes that the article might actually explain who Leroy was and why we should care that Waldman was sorta-maybe-kinda-but-not-really fooled by him. But it didn't. It just talked, as usual, about Waldman. Doesn't she have a blog somewhere where she can put this stuff???
I really miss your old "Mothers Who Think" feature, which had a variety of _different_ writers talking about _interesting_ features of their daily lives. I even miss Anne Lamott, who while also somewhat exploitative of her kid and also navel-gazing, at least usually managed to have some awareness of a larger sphere of lifestyles, and to relate her own thoughts to concepts of larger import.
So anyway, I'm going to go with something that some other user posted in the comments, and make "don't click on Waldman" one of my resolutions for 2006.
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And I Care Because...?
What is the point? Why do I care of this person is real or not? Why is this the LEAD article on this site?
I sure am glad I didn't PAY for this drivel!
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JT Leroy
The letters were a better read than the article. Salon using this as the top story is just as bad as Vanity Fair putting Lindsay Lohan on the cover on the most recent issue. Neither have any substance, and who really cares? But on the other hand, I agree that with the slide into fascism Salon should focus on some more pressing topics, but how many respondents here click on "The Fix". Hey -- I do, we all need a little bit of fluff once in a while. We can’t take everything so incredibly seriously all the time -- we'll all drop dead from stress.
Ayelet Waldman's articles do irk me, though.
I miss Boehlert.
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Boycott
i agree with those urging a no-click, no letter campaign (which unfortunately i have to write a letter to endorse). the one and only way that professionals say you can neutralize the narcissist is to ignore her. negative attention is just as much, if not more of, a "narcissitic supply" than positive attention. It's called "NO CONTACT" and it requires discipline (since narcissists are such a cunning and perversely fascinating "show" ... unless you actually have to live with one).
i, for one, am instituing my own personal "no contact."
and i agree with those who say Salon has just deteriorated shamefully. in a world where reasons for true outrage are sadly, profoundly ubiquitous, and genuine journalistic critique so vitally needed, the new chick-blog and bourgeois mommy articles and so on and so on are just a disgrace. withheld body armor, secret wire-taps, diabetes epidemic, darfur, rampant political corruption, the worst president in history, the iraq quagmire, and so on and so on. and we here endlessly, instead, about offensive diet ads and erotic mommies. pathetic.
i give the editors the rest of my premium membership to show me that they are more than just Us Magazine. i will miss Cary Tennis, the War Room, and Sidney Blumenthal, but i'll live.
funny that a much better place, these days, to see serious discussions with serious people about serious things is on The Daily Show. they get better while Salon gets worse and worse. and it's free.