From: hello@stabby.greedy.vicious   
      
   Well, you know, lots of people say, "NEVER put pictures of children on   
   the 'net."   
      
   This is misguided.   
      
   I found out that the pedophiles get even more excited the "hotter" the   
   pictures are.   
      
   Like, if you can get your hands on pix of attractive kids - naked, in   
   swimsuits....even in tank tops...from your local processing booth...that   
   stuff is a "hotter" commodity.   
      
   So, like, you could send kids pix in private e-mail, or keep them on   
   private folders on a private computer....they really like that stuff.   
      
   The solution isn't keeping all pictures of kids and babies off the 'net.   
     That is just puritanical and giving in to puritanical repressive   
   blackmail, really.  Why should people be guilt-tripped for showing off   
   their babies and kids on the 'net.  I mean, how repressive has the   
   "official script" gotten, anyway?  People have to feel guilty for   
   putting pictures of their beautiful children on places like Flickr?  Do   
   you see the nasty, nasty punitive hostile 'logic' behind this?   
      
   No, the secret to predatory obsessives is to BREAK THE SPELL.  They get   
   "jacked up" on secrecy.  Secrecy and obscurity RAISE THE VALUE.   
      
   See, I read a lot about stalkers and the psychology of obsession, and it   
   didn't take long for me to catch on that OBSCURITY feeds their   
   obsession.  You know, it's like the Theresa Saldana case.....these   
   stalkers have their own "little secret"....like that teenager on some   
   low-rated tv sitcom...or the drummer in some second-rate band.   
      
   There's this film with Lili Taylor called "A Slipping Down Life".  I   
   think that's the name of it.  This slightly troubled woman develops an   
   obsession with the rather pathetic lead singer of a local band.  I hung   
   around the music scene for a long time and saw this a lot among troubled   
   women - they pick some guy in some obscure band and obsess on him and   
   follow him.  If they feel guilty or self-conscious enough, they then   
   pick a "substitute" through which they can openly express their   
   obsessive feelings.  Like, say they're obsessed with the bass player in   
   "Band X".  Well, they feel self-conscious, like they're going to get   
   "found out" or "caught".....so they also follow around "Band Y" and   
   proceed to talk about, say, the drummer of "Band Y", using that guy to   
   express all of their secret feelings, obsessions and frustrations   
   regarding the bass player for "Band X".  Spend a lot of time around   
   music scenes and you'll see this phenomenon - disturbed girls will pick   
   obscure little bands to follow around, and then they'll find ways to   
   make it look like they're not doing that.   
      
   And oh, the private sniper stalker slander boys think I'm ONE of them.   
   For fuck's sakes - I'm a music fan.  I have thousands of albums and   
   about ten thousand songs on my hard drive right now.  I've never really   
   been attracted to musicians.  Grew up around music, never thought twice   
   about collecting.  The misogynist bullying frat boy snipers think about   
   female music fans like they think about female baseball fans.....that   
   they're obsessives and stalkers and nothing more.  Bullshit.  But, you   
   know, never really was attracted to musicians and thought that clingy   
   behavior was irritating and degrading and just felt so troubled and   
   frustrated with those girls.  And you know, they give you a guilt trip   
   for liking to go to clubs and dance, they think it's all about sex.   
      
   Now, WHY IS THAT?   
      
   I mean, a girl like me, who worked her whole life to get through   
   college, isn't going to waste her life banking on some musician or music   
   scene guy, it just isn't secure, you know?  My father never 'approved'   
   of those guys, okay as friends, but you know, he would never approve of   
   that.   
      
   (at this point, a closet sniper thinks this is a "rant".  Tell me, does   
   it look like I'm "ranting" here??)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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