Thursday, October 05, 2006
The Transcript
Ewww.
This is the last bit of dialogue, from the page:
well i better go finish my hw…i just found out from a friend that i have to finish reading and notating a book for AP english
After desultorily mocking his computer-illiterate mother as a way of changing the subject from a stale sexual thread, he signed off with that excuse, which was either made up entirely or else came about as he decided to switch priorities, because chatting it up with your congressman about his hard-on is a total bore.
Seriously. This completely blows away the 'save the innocent children' idea. This is a teenager with a short attention span whose tone in the IM conversation is one of indifference. I'm sure that section of the public that considers oral sex to be freakishly deviant will be horrified, but while still kind of gross, this reveals Foley to be pathetic: baiting an uninterested jock into measuring his penis only to have the reply be "I've already told you that."
And that's the climax of the narrative. Foley doesn't say whether or not he's masturbating; he just mentions, again and again, that he's hard, and the page doesn't seem to be uncomfortable--or unfamiliar with cybersex. If anything, he's rolling his eyes at Foley's repetitiveness, disappointed at how tame this hour-long chat really was. Of course, the dynamics of this situation are ripe with the potential for exploitation, and maybe this teenager is utterly confused, but he's sexually active, he's over the age of consent and he's not not flirting. This is simply not the same thing as coercing an eight-year old into having sex with you.
Mostly because they didn't have sex, they didn't have cybersex, this is as salacious as the fucking thing has gotten in almost a week, we're indoctrinated to be completely horrified over it even though it made the 'child' in question yawn and sign off, and it's so goddamn infuriating how everyone isn't focusing on the continuing pattern of abuse of power!
This is the last bit of dialogue, from the page:
well i better go finish my hw…i just found out from a friend that i have to finish reading and notating a book for AP english
After desultorily mocking his computer-illiterate mother as a way of changing the subject from a stale sexual thread, he signed off with that excuse, which was either made up entirely or else came about as he decided to switch priorities, because chatting it up with your congressman about his hard-on is a total bore.
Seriously. This completely blows away the 'save the innocent children' idea. This is a teenager with a short attention span whose tone in the IM conversation is one of indifference. I'm sure that section of the public that considers oral sex to be freakishly deviant will be horrified, but while still kind of gross, this reveals Foley to be pathetic: baiting an uninterested jock into measuring his penis only to have the reply be "I've already told you that."
And that's the climax of the narrative. Foley doesn't say whether or not he's masturbating; he just mentions, again and again, that he's hard, and the page doesn't seem to be uncomfortable--or unfamiliar with cybersex. If anything, he's rolling his eyes at Foley's repetitiveness, disappointed at how tame this hour-long chat really was. Of course, the dynamics of this situation are ripe with the potential for exploitation, and maybe this teenager is utterly confused, but he's sexually active, he's over the age of consent and he's not not flirting. This is simply not the same thing as coercing an eight-year old into having sex with you.
Mostly because they didn't have sex, they didn't have cybersex, this is as salacious as the fucking thing has gotten in almost a week, we're indoctrinated to be completely horrified over it even though it made the 'child' in question yawn and sign off, and it's so goddamn infuriating how everyone isn't focusing on the continuing pattern of abuse of power!
