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On March 25 2011 06:27 StorkHwaiting wrote:
This Xiaxue girl is a well known Singaporean blogger. She is a shock jock like Rush Limbaugh/Howard Stern/Glenn Beck etc. Hope you guys know she makes her bread and butter on saying controversial, biased statements and that her plastic surgery is paid for by sponsors. Kind of odd that her blog entry states these things rather clearly, yet a lot of TLers in this thread seem to be speaking as if she is doing this for no reason, no life, etc. She makes money off it. She has plenty of reason. She's not a "loser" for doing so, in fact she is a very big winner.

I don't get at all how anyone here could call her a loser, when you're literally doing the same thing she is (sharing your thoughts on the internet to discuss and get attention from others) yet NOT getting paid for it like she does.

On March 25 2011 06:33 Half wrote:


Making broad denouncements isn't worse then personal attacks.

Which is worse, me saying "Grandmas should be euthanized", or going to your grandmas house yelling at her".

On March 25 2011 06:38 wzzit wrote:


This is a subjective point, but I'd like to point out that in your example the latter is a mere personal attack, while the former is an advocacy for genocide against the elderly. I'd think most people would agree that an argument for genocide is more offensive than a personal insult.

On March 25 2011 06:24 Half wrote:


No they empathize with the guy because they identify with Narcissistic losers more then superficial bitches. And he's a guy, which means theirs an entire subtext of an "emasculation narrative" going on here which is gonna make a bunch of dudes defensive for some reason.

You really shouldn't empathize with either people because they're both pretty fucked up, and if you look at it from that unbiased perspective, the guy is really the one who's more deranged and pathetic.

On March 25 2011 06:39 Eppa! wrote:

I can emphasized that he did something that spiralled out of control completely. Both are pathetic. The guy however did not know what he gave him self into.

Empathy should not be restricted to closer friends. He probably has some real life problems and he seems to have vented them through the internet. I do not feel that what happened to him was deserved even if he did wrong.

I do not believe in "an eye for an eye logic"

On March 25 2011 06:47 Half wrote:


What exactly happened to him? That people figured out his fake girlfriend was fake? So in other words, he deserves for other people to think that he has a fake girlfriend? That's his natural right, and its inhumane that this should be taken away from him?

Its lucky nobody cared enough about him to notice until now, if anything.

On March 25 2011 06:44 iNSiPiD1 wrote:
Do we have any proof that the blogger girl didn't make the Kimi account? What if she did make that fake account and then started talking/flirting with Peter, and he simply fell into a trap she set up?

All I'm saying is that without absolute proof that she did NOT do this, how can we be so sure he did?

Not trying to defend anyone, just saying...

On March 25 2011 06:47 Half wrote:


What exactly happened to him? That people figured out his fake girlfriend was fake? So in other words, he deserves for other people to think that he has a fake girlfriend? That's his natural right, and its inhumane that this should be taken away from him?

Its lucky nobody cared enough about him to notice until now, if anything.

# Superficial persona: This girl represents the lack of empathy and distance that has, for many, come to characterize the modern "internet society". The media constantly shows us different versions of reality in the forum of reality shows and similar entertainment, and with so many different representations of reality there seems to be a disconnect. It gives the feeling that people do not understand it other and live life without a common connection. That previously, people were just people, and everyone could relate, but today people are "personas" and everything becomes surreal and distant. If you look as the way this girl presents herself, communicates or writes in her entries, she represents this disconnect - this emptiness. It all seems to scream of superficial interaction, self-justifications, impersonal presence. The fact that she promotes vile and anger just seems to enhance this.

Dissasociation: More "mature" people might simply find the girl's childish outburst or hostile tone, and wish to distance themselves from the girl. They don't really try to understand the motives or circumstance, but simply relate to the raw act. The people who feel this will generally feel that such behavior is disruptive or worse, and therefore feel strongly about calling it out or dissasociating themselves.