Oh my, all this and heaven too. I want to express how I feel about the search for viewers, truth and respecting your work. However I do not want to judge your actions. I respect the choices you have made but I do not agree with them. It is important that I make that separation upfront.
When I choose to consume a product, a book, music, food, enlightenment whatever I check first to see if it is safe, meaning can I live with the item after I have accepted it into my mind or body. There are somethings I can't accept - violence and cruelty. I can't view slasher movies, war movies, movies that degrade or exploit other human beings. I try to avoid reading material that take you to the dark side and leave you there. Most radio and television talk shows can be toxic, either by banality or narrowness of viewpoint expressed. I base my judgment on my life experiences and the trust that I have in the provider of the product and any supporting information. Having seen your prior work that talks to a segment of the population that I am not exposed to, there is a certain level of trust established. I am willing to step out of my experience to learn something new from you. But Randy you honestly told me upfront what I would be seeing. I had the ability to make an informed choice to continue or not. If this was my first time seeing your work and I saw the title "Transsexuals In Action" I would not have viewed the video. I don't like exploitation and I don't watch videos of transsexuals, gays/lesbians or straight people doing the humpty-hump just for the sake of watch people have sex. I'm not a teenage boy or a lonely middle-age man. But let's say I was and I was up for what you title presented. I would have felt cheated cuz there would not have been any bed banging or skin slurping. Yeah you got a lot of people clicking that link but how many watched it the whole way when they figured out that nobody takes their clothes off? So you may have gain clicks but did you gain true viewers? Trust. Do you want you viewers to trust the work that you do? And if you are willing to do what M$M does, like the teases done on local news or magazines, then how is your work different than the established media? If it isn't, okay. I'm really not trying to make right/wrong thing here, but I want you to be open to the questions that come along with the choices that you've made. I feel that they are important questions about ethics, trust, exposure. The people that appeared in your videos took a chance and a risk to participate in your videos. I'm betting they have been fighting off sexual only based identification issues for years. Did that title you selected serve the greater good? This is not easy stuff. I think there are better ways to find the folks who would be interested without doing a bait and switch. I will think about this more because the next question that comes up for me is "How would Randy attract viewers who are interested in this topic?" P.S. Value your work it is plantation mentality to give it to YouTube. Gena http://outonthstoop.blogspot.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
