Nina wrote:Fuck.
You are just as psychotic as your boyfriend.
"Utter fraud"?
If I want to believe that Rick Reuben is really a well known, world famous Buddhist asshole, does that mean that he is?
If I really, really, really want to believe that, and so I do, despite all evidence to the contrary, am I sane?
What if Rick Reuben gives up telling me any different, because I am obviously plagued with emotional problems, sexual insecurity, and a pathetic loneliness expressing itself through obsessive internet fantasy?
What if Rick Reuben's exasperation and lack of attention to my talents is really a secret language, devised for my ears only?
What if that secret language is used to relay promises of future happiness?
Can anyone else hear that language? Understand it?
Have you ever heard of Radical Interpretation?
I know this is pretty sordid business, but internet deception can have serious, unintended consequences (Megan Meier hoax anyone?) and when it happens it ought to be exposed and addressed.
Let’s just say for argument that this was an “obsessive internet fantasy”, that Minotaur is “plagued with emotional problems, sexual insecurity, and a pathetic loneliness” –which he’s not. Minotaur is one of the sweetest, most generous, most compassionate, well-liked people I’ve ever met.
But, for the sake or argument, let’s just say he is all of those things.
If that is true, then fake Nina was totally complicit in deluding a credulous kid—urging him to open up and unburden himself to her when he was having a hard time. He may have been credulous, but she was utterly cruel. And, yes, she did say lots of stuff suggesting that she was Nina Nastasia.
And why was she doing this, whoever the hell she is? Did she find it amusing? Was she also way too drawn into this “obsessive internet fantasy” in which she also divulged all sorts of wacked-out, intimate shit?
I don’t think this can be excused this as “well, the truth would have been too devastating for him.” Heck, if he’s as unbalanced as she claims he is then she was really playing with fire. But Minotaur found out. He wasn’t devastated. The thing that hurt the most was realizing that someone he had come to care about was so deceptive. But we’re still wondering… what kind of a person would perpetuate such a charade and allow someone to become so emotionally invested in her if she was only fucking with him for sport?
I’d love to hear her “Radical Interpretation”.