Mori: Damned if that ain't the most Neo shit I done heard today. (The Codex and fanatics part, I mean, not you.)
Pavilion Is Still The Last Best Chance For Multiples To Get Positive Media Publicity
Rogan: This stuff is interesting to me because from my experience, the most positive reactions I've seen to plurals has been... well, offline stuff. At the end of the day, no matter how pretty your website is, after a certain point it's still text and images on a screen, and for a lot of people, that puts a barrier between recognizing the source of that text as a person. (Especially if they have no way of knowing whether the person writing that text is telling the truth.)
A lot of my singlet colleagues have mentioned to me that they never knew a plural before us, and just having an example of us... I dunno, walking around, eating food, being a rather ordinary human being, helped ease some of their surprise or unease. We weren't "LB the Multiple," we were, "LB who helped make that science comic," or "LB who is always late" or "LB who is always at these meetings."
When I think of plurals who got media coverage, I think of Chris Costner Sizemore fighting for the legal rights to her own life story, or folks fighting for the right to tell their own stories. The web can be part of that, for sure, obviously I use it, but at the end of the day, I feel like you have to acknowledge the limits of focusing ONLY on the web.
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Re: This is one of those Just Me (tm) opinions, but...
Date: 2017-09-22 07:55 pm (UTC)Rogan: This stuff is interesting to me because from my experience, the most positive reactions I've seen to plurals has been... well, offline stuff. At the end of the day, no matter how pretty your website is, after a certain point it's still text and images on a screen, and for a lot of people, that puts a barrier between recognizing the source of that text as a person. (Especially if they have no way of knowing whether the person writing that text is telling the truth.)
A lot of my singlet colleagues have mentioned to me that they never knew a plural before us, and just having an example of us... I dunno, walking around, eating food, being a rather ordinary human being, helped ease some of their surprise or unease. We weren't "LB the Multiple," we were, "LB who helped make that science comic," or "LB who is always late" or "LB who is always at these meetings."
When I think of plurals who got media coverage, I think of Chris Costner Sizemore fighting for the legal rights to her own life story, or folks fighting for the right to tell their own stories. The web can be part of that, for sure, obviously I use it, but at the end of the day, I feel like you have to acknowledge the limits of focusing ONLY on the web.