Smarter-than-you medieval masters student Tom McMaster is sorry that his hoax about a lesbian Syrian-American blogger being arrested by the Syrian secret police has given power to the country’s regime and will inevitably cause everyone to doubt any stories of LGBT abuses coming from the region, but DIDN’T YOU LOVE HIS WRITING??! Please tell him he’s a good writer—that is like soul candy to a grad student.
He says, “The people I’ve hurt specifically I will apologize to.” But sadly McMaster will never hear from the people he hurt specifically because those Syrian queers, dissidents, and journalists will most likely be too busy having the fuck raped and tortured out of them to hear his useless apology.
What’s weird is that watching his interview with the Guardian, it’s hard to buy that while he believes his own justifications, he wasn’t smart enough to think that faking the arrest of an American citizen might cause an international diplomatic situation. Of course, he is studying what used to be called “the Dark Ages”, so one should expect him to be, shall we say, a bit unsavvy when it comes to how the internet works.
Mike
One minor quibble with the name: His surname is MacMaster, not Mc. Carry on. 🙂
Eagle
I wouldn’t take it so personally; he’s obviously US intelligence. Even if no-one wants to say so…
Shannon1981
Is what he did even legal?
Crae
Fortyish fatfaced fool living in total comfort pretends to be brave young lesbian in danger. Says he doesn’t know how this whole business got out of hand with his thousands of lying posts. Writes cheeseball horny poetry from “lesbian” viewpoint, but when asked if he got a sexy thrill says he “doesn’t want to deal with that aspect particularly.”
Clueless douche. Oh, and he and his wife are fug to boot.
Danny
He should be deported and banned from the UK.
Art Smith
Not surprising.
There are tons of hoaxes about blogs I remember there was one about a straight fag hag that was a total hoax and “she” wrote a blog about it.
There was another blog about a “doctor” who claimed to be a gay man who was immune to HIV and gave out wrong information about safer sex/HIV risk and STDs and he turned out to be a hoax and just making stuff up.
There was Tim Barrus who wrote books about Native Americans under the fake name of Nasdiji and he was exposed as being a total hoax and fraud.
The author known as “J.T. Leroy” turned out to be a very mentally ill hetero woman who claimed to be an HIV+ teenager/young adult that was trans. I’m not sure why people didn’t know that this was a total hoax? I remember reading reviews of “J.T. Leroy’s” books on Amazon.com and it was very easy to tell this was a total hoax.
There was Vicki Johnson and her fictional creation of Anthony Godby Johnson.
Armistead Maupin wrote a book about her and the hoax called “The night listener” and they made a movie of it with Robin Williams.
James Frey’s books were full of BS. I never read any of them but a friend told me about the part where he claimed to get hit by a train and survived and I knew it was all total BS then.
Augusten Burroughs “books” are full of BS too and I’m not surprised he hasn’t been sued by any of his family members or the family he grew up with, or called out as a hoax yet but he’s just a flash in the pan and a shitty writer.
ZT
And now, with “Paula Brooks” from Lez Get Real also turning out to be a man, there’s a good reminder here : never believe too too much on the internet. And it’s easy to fake an identity that your readers will believe if they WANT to believe it. Look how anybody can claim any story of being a gay-bashing victim, however improbable, and everybody believes it until he confesses. Lez Get Real readers truly wanted to believe it was run by a feminist lesbian leading the fight against the male power structure.
Hermes3X
Why would anyone create this type of “hoax” in the first place? Because he a gay revolutionary? Because he is an idiot? Wrong! Tom McMaster is a selfish ass. But he only hopes his hoax gets a “good bit of attention.”
@David Ehrenstein, if you have something to add to Queerty or this discussion, please add your comments. But to re-direct the traffic from this site to your own blog is spamming. Spamming is tacky and rude, so please explain again why I should read your blog rather than read Queerty? That is, if you even read Queerty yourself.
Michael
Why would you believe anything you read on a blog? I doubt most of what I hear. And I hear a lot about international incidents and the danger activists in Syria will now face. But, as far as I can tell that’s just talk like this guy’s story was just talk. Until I’m faced with proof from vetted news reports, I’m going to doubt that as well. Don’t be so quick to believe stuff cuz it’s what you want to hear. Doubtlessly, that’s what the people who bought into the aforementioned HIV doctor situation did–probably to disasterous results.
The crustybastard
I suspected GGID was bogus because it was wall-to-wall Jew-bashing.
I don’t know any gay girl that bigoted.
Jeffree
@The crustybastard:
Maybe you know more Syrians than the rest of us, but they’re not all big fans of Israel or Jews, lol. That said the LGB people I know from that region are much *more* concerned with their civil rights being trampled by their own governments than by the threats from outside their borders.
I don’t know what any of this says about MacMaster’s own antisemitism, but maybe he assumed that most Syrian lesbians would automatically Jew-bash? Either way, he’s been totally self serving & irresponsible & some other words I won’t dare use!
The crustybastard
Everybody bitches about their own government. GGID was a vehicle for MacMaster’s antisemitic rants, among other things.
He’s a liar and a fraud. I hope the disclosure fucking RUINS him, the piece of shit.
RightR
Most lesbian and/or feminist blogs are very anti-Israel, which sometimes equates to Jew-bashing (though not always). But those blogs like Shakesville and Feministing and Lez Get Real (lol) and company just take the Left Wing line all the way, so they go automatically anti-Israel pro-Palestinian.