(This may be a duplicate; the first try hasn't shown up, and it's been hours.)
--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > Hmmmm. I'm getting the feeling that even Ravi is > smart enough to realize that the "fantasy image" > involved here is what Judy *hopes* I see her as. > *She* created this photo. *She* made herself look > that ugly in it. It's what *she* hopes I think of > her. > > It's not. "Look at the photograph, Judy. That's not you making a face, that IS your face. What you are shows in this photo all too clearly."--Barry, #158094 Ooooooopsie...somebody give Barry a bandage for his poor foot. > If I'd had any image of her before she > posted this, it was most likely along the lines > of an old woman so housebound and lonely that she > couldn't even find a friend to take a photo of her. > That part turned out to be true. Well, no, it didn't. It's part of Barry's fantasy image of me. (It's quite an elaborate image; one of his very first posts to FFL, well before I ever showed up here, featured another aspect of that fantasy.) He's posted the photo over and over again to show what a horrible person I am. At one point he posted it along with a whole bunch of other FFL member photos for comparison, implying it was the *only* photo I'd posted of myself. On another occasion, he Photoshopped it onto an aerial view of a cornfield, making it appear to be many thousands of times its actual size. Talk about obsession! And he copied it into his AOL account, apparently because he was afraid I'd delete it from the FFL photo section. No WAY would I delete that photo. I had uploaded it as a gag to tweak Barry, but it turned out to be more effective in exposing his obsession with and hatred of me than I could ever have dreamed, still paying dividends almost four years later. BTW, here's what I actually look like: http://tinyurl.com/therealjudy Fearsome, eh?
