I recently had the (dis)pleasure of running into your website. At first it seemed like your site might contain some insightful social/political commentary, but after a few minutes I realized that this wasn’t so.

Two of your “editorials” especially irked me. The first was your piece on webcam sites. In this you state that: these sites “endlessly peddle their owners(‘) respective ‘viewpoints’.” What exactly is it that your site does again? By the way, I also took the liberty of inserting an apostrophe in your quote to demonstrate ownership, which you neglected to do. I wouldn’t normally be so anal and picky except for that you (in this same editorial) faulted someone who emailed you because they had grammatical mistakes. I’d just like to inform you that you’re not perfect.

May I also remind you that many of the owners of these “webcam” sites are still in high school. You, as you state on your front page, are graduated from college. This might go some way toward explaining why it is that the owners of these sites cannot place Bangledesh on a map or explain complex
international disputes. It’s typically in college that peoples’ worldviews tend to expand.

My second complaint (I should say, the second and last complaint that I’m going to voice…I could go on all day as to why I disagree with your various viewpoints) is with your Midwest “editorial.” Yes, it’s true that I myself am from the Midwest, born in Kansas and raised in Indiana. And it really wouldn’t bother me if you thought poorly of the Midwest after having lived in/experienced it, but you base your opinion on two rather sketchy encounters. The first is your McDonald’s encounter. Everyone stared at
you? So what? As if you’ve never given someone a look without harboring racially discriminatory thoughts toward them? You’re just assuming that those people were prejudiced towards you, which is ridiculous for reasons that I don’t think I have to explain.

The second story has to do with a wheelchair-bound Alzheimer’s patient. Yes, she called you a “China Boy,” which isn’t a particularly flattering term, but I’m not sure that it demonstrates that “such attitudes still existed.” The quasi-senile ramblings of an old lady hardly speak for the general consensus of an entire geographical region, ie the Midwest.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not writing to you because I disagree verbatim with everything you have to say (although I more or less do). I have no problem accepting the fact that other people have views different from my own, as long as they can justify them and aren’t just ranting and raving
(like you are). But when people (such as yourself) go around thinking that their word is the last on any given subject, I feel some kind of need to write, if for no other reason that to give myself some kind of feeling of satisfaction for not having wasted my time on earth. I fully expect for you to have stopped reading by now, and fully do NOT expect a reply, even though I would be happy to have one. In conclusion, I think you could do with a little more respect towards other people, just enough to accept that their views can be just as valid as yours.

Justin,

I read your response as well as the response of that other guy you have posted on your front page and thought they were both on point, but guys like that need to be talked to in their own language. That’s why I emailed him and bcced you. Just thought you’d like to know where that came from. I’d
be flattered if you posted me on your site (which I visit for reasons OTHER than porn, if that gives you a feeling of satisfaction), and also grateful because that took me a pretty long time to write. Adios.