If it weren't for you meddling kids

At the end of each episode of Scooby Doo, the villain always says, “and I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids.” That’s how I feel about the guys at Catallarchy.net.

Well I may be an unemployed man without a wife or girlfriend still living with my parents despite being over the age of 30, but at least I’m not so stupid as to think that a gorgeous young girl would be the author of a popular libertarian blog. She’d be too busy having fun. The kind of fun found in this post, except it would be happening every night instead of just being a one time event. You guys are so gullible!

Libertarians tend to be ugly because it’s an anti-majority philosophy. People who are attractive have an easy time going through life and derive far too many advantages from the status quo to ever question it. It’s only outsiders, who are usually ugly, who join up with fringe movements.

One thing I learned from this blog is how easy attractive woman have it. When I had a blog as my real self, no one linked to me, no one left any comments, it was as if the blog existed in a vacuum. But things were different for Libertarian Girl. Every day I’d check Technorati and discover new unsolicited links. It was like I had warped into an alternate universe where all the rules had changed. At the rate things were happening, this would have been an A-list blog in a few more months.

It’s funny how there have been some posts in the blogosphere saying that the political blogosphere was a boys club that discriminated against women, as evidenced by how few politics bloggers were women. Boy were they completely off the mark. It’s ten times easier for a woman’s blog to become popular.

This effect no doubt carries over into the real world. Whenever I see an attractive woman with a successful career, I’ll remember the experience of this blog and assume that she didn’t really get there on merit, just her looks.

Some people might think there’s something homosexual about me pretending to be a girl, but don’t worry, I assure you that I have the hots for the girl in the picture just like all of you, and I have absolutely zero sexual desire for any of my male readers. There’s nothing more homosexual here than any male fiction writer writing female characters.

I’m going to miss this blog. It was fun having a blog that people actually read, even though it only lasted for less than two months. I should have figured that the type of people who read libertarian blogs are the same type that read Russian brides websites. When I make my next hoax blog, I’ll make sure to use a more obscure photo.

By the way, does anyone know if there really are gorgeous young women in Russia willing to marry much older and uglier men from the United States? Or is it just a scam?

Comments

[Anonymouse111]

Love it! Well done.

[billy-jay]

Awesome.

[Scott Scheule]

Hats off.

[Luboš Motl]

My article about this story is here

http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/02/libertarian-girl-was-hoax.html

[xx y]

I had my suspicions, right off the bat, that you were a troll, (and I even email you, calling your bluff) but I let Andrew F (over on why.i.hate.dc) talk me out of my suspicions. After so many other people fell for you "hook line and sinker", so did I, although I was still somewhat suspicions (you DO know that Alan Greenspan was tight with Ayn Rand, right?)

Gotta listen to my gut.

I must say, I really enjoyed your “clueless Libertarian” posts, and I hit your page regularly.

Well done.

[M]

You do have a lot of time on your hands man!

[Tom Hanna]

The girl thing was only half of it. The bizarre statist stuff you posted would have drawn similar response if you'd called yourself Libertarian Boy and any blog post with 'breast' in the title always draws traffic.

And I went and linked this blog just in time for the unmasking...

[Jacqueline]

OK now that I have recovered from the initial emotional shock (and seized the opportunity to promote my own blog) I have more to say.

I am one of the people who would not have read LG's blog if I knew it was written by a man. I don't have the time to read non-local political blogs, especially those with such ideological inconsistency and lower-quality political analysis. But as a straight woman I was not reading this blog for the reasons LG assumes.

I was so happy and excited to find another young libertarian woman in the blogosphere. There are so few young women in the movement -- when I go to the local Libertarian Party meetings, it's 90% men, and the other women there are all middle aged moms and lesbians. I don't really have anything in common with them outside of politics. I'm very lonely and wish so much to find more women like me to be friends with. Someone to chat politics and swap makeup and gossip about guys with.

Here I found what I thought was a potential gal pal to hang out with if/when I eventually move to the DC area. I also wanted to encourage "her" to keep blogging, and hopefully help nudge "her" in a more libertarian direction, even though sometimes "she" drove me absofreakinlutely nuts with some of the statist crap "she" posted while calling "herself" a Libertarian. I even went and commented on other blogs to defend "her" against criticism.

So while it was a clever hoax and I appreciate the wit behind it and in some of LG's posts and retorts, I am very sad and disappointed that LG is not for real. :(

[dadahead]

Wow, Jackie seems especially put out by the whole thing.

We may have to put her on suicide watch for a while.

Jackie, I know you are angry that Libertarian Girl betrayed you, but you can do much better than her anyway! You go girl! She be thinking she's all that, but it's her loss!

[dadahead]

I would also like to re-iterate that there are still two unanswered questions about this whole thing:

1. Who, exactly, was browsing through the Russian mail-order bride catalog and noticed a picture of Libertarian Girl?

2. What, exactly, was Libertarian Girl herself doing browsing through the Russian mail-order bride catalog in order to find the picture in the first place?