To my friends at the 7fatcow.com
- Anonymity is the plague of the frum word. Web sites where anonymity prevails, quickly turn into a depository of the cow pies instead of content.
- Multiple bloggers personality disorder. If you change names you can’t develop a character (even an anonymous character) and people can’t relate. Remember it’s all about who is writing not what is being written.
- People who grow up frum can’t even think of creating a new sentence (everything important was already said), so they post exclusively either but quoting (stealing) or linking. 7FC is the prime example of that wretched culture.
- Excessive use of Yinglish and Yeshivish.
- There is no attempt to built a community beyond the inside shtible.
- Just like the abuse victims, the group that nominally escaped the abuse can only speak and think about the culture of the abusers.
- Juvenile humor is not a substitute to being vulnerable.
Credits: Toyota Cowrolla via afrigadget; illustration by Hugh MacLeod
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