:smack: I have been meaning to tell y’all something. But I’ve been dead for like two years now . . . soo.
CMC fnord!
Ah, the old “reverse death fake-out.” Nicely done, sir.
I don’t know about her colourful life, either - I personally know a lady who is a daughter of a major player in the music industry, and she’s had a life that would raise both eyebrows if I wasn’t pretty sure that it all happened as she says it did. I think Fried Dough Ho is mostly guilty of oversharing and trusting internet people too much, but that shouldn’t be a lynching offense.
This is the internet, madame. It would appear everything is a lynching offense.
“I ate at Applebee’s and really enjoyed it.”
“KILL HIM!”
[QUOTE=Cat Whisperer;13312235I think Fried Dough Ho is mostly guilty of oversharing and trusting internet people too much, but that shouldn’t be a lynching offense.[/QUOTE]
Oversharing is sometimes a big deal, but it becomes a bigger deal when what is shared reaches the level of implausibility to the point that everything is called into question. An Internet persona doesn’t exist in a vacuum. As far as trust goes, wouldn’t you say that under the circumstances the violation of trust is on her for making stuff up? And this is hardly a lynching. There are many examples of that to be found, and this is not one of them. This is a case of reflexive knee-jerking causing people to take a better look at other things the person said and finding considerable discrepancies.
I still cry myself to sleep. 
Well, like I said, I just don’t know.
You’d do that anyway.
I thought it’d make you feel better if I let you take the credit for it.
Stay skunky, my friends.
This is how I feel. Some people tend to post mundane boring stuff, and others tend to post when they have something noteworthy to add. Hers just piled up a bunch of noteworthy stuff in a hurry. Maybe she exaggerates, but discrepancies in minute details from decades ago don’t scream “fake” to me. Oversharing, yes.
I dunno, I think if I got I raped would remember the details.
If you were raped five times, twice at the Ren Fair, I could forgive you mixing them up from time to time.
I’ll bet repressed memory isn’t uncommon in rape cases.
But does it typically present as confusion over the where and when? Repressed (suppressed?) memory more usually entails a complete blanking out of the horrid event, I thought.
[Louis CK]You shouldn’t rape anybody. Unless you have a good reason. Like…they won’t let you have sex with them.[LCK]
Thanks! You’re a pal. 
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I’ve noticed the pile-up of over-interesting information myself; in fact, that’s sort of why I clicked on this thread. I’ll admit to having my own serious doubts about the veracity of her persona and her stories. However, I keep two things in mind:
1.) A few years ago–maybe four or so–I posted here about my then-marriage. I was later directed to a discussion of this off-board during which several posters very bluntly discussed the veracity of my claims, accused me of being another poster, and stated that they’d always had suspicions about whether I was who I was, dating back years.
I’ve been posting here since I was seventeen, and I’ll be honest; that fucking hurt. I have perhaps been incautious about sharing too many details about my life, and god knows I used this place as a substitute for Livejournal, but being accused of making something that big up was a gut blow, as was the idea that everything I’d posted–my life, basically–was some kind of experiment in trolling.
I sort of apply that sort of knowledge to whenever I see something initially unbelieveable on the boards. The stuff in my ex-marriage seems pretty out there to an outsider, too. Unless it’s a point of debate, though, I just let the doubts go.
2.) I have an online friend from another venue who seems to be something like a pathological liar. She always has the most fantastic stories, has to be the best at everything. It drives me to distraction, and I don’t really trust a single one of her stories, but she still can have a good discussion about computer games or books or what-have-you.
That’s sort of how I feel about Fried Dough Ho. I don’t really know if everything she’s said is true, and I don’t really care. In general, she’s contributed to the boards, and hasn’t taken anything away from the experience. And, while I think she was seriously out of line in that thread–and thus agree with the OP’s initial thread–it’s not as though that sort of thing is exactly uncommon here.
I know. Once people started debating whether she had been raped at all, I started feeling badly about my participation in this thread. I don’t want to be hurtful. If these things are not true, there’s probably a reason why she is saying them. And she may actually believe them. If you look at this thread, for example (has nothing to do with FDH), there is an essay linked in the thread in which the writer talks about being raped, but there is serious debate amongst the posters about whether she really was*. I sort of think of it that way. Sometime there’s no easy way to determine what actually did happen, or come to consensus on what it should be called.
I dunno. I’m not good at Pitting. As I said upthread, I truly think there’s an element of embellishment in what FDH says, but at the end of the day, I do have to wonder what skin it is off my nose.
*Although now I see that **FDH **herself posted in that thread and said no, what the author of the essay experienced was not rape. Oh well, my point still stands.