Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Lying on the Internet a Crime?

I hope they’ll do it soon! Sure, I could use a “pen name” here (Lots of authors use "pen names".), and if so, that’s not a lie, is it? Or is it? (If it is a crime, do I get street cred?) Let’s take a look at this shocking subject!

Back in the day (that’s hip language for “years ago”, for those of you un-cool enough not to know), most women authors used men’s names to credit for their writing in the marketplace, since at the time, it was frowned upon for women to be authors. Is this lying? According to the proposed law, it is! (Will they dig up famous women-authors' graves and throw their skeletons in prison now? Most of their books are available on the Internet, so it's discrimination to give them a pass on this law!)

So, I guess this means the government hates women. And you know, women are also known to lie about their ages to people rude enough to ask. And this would also be a crime. Oh, and what about other stuff, like a married woman keeping her maiden name for the purposes of business stuff, or for being a TV personality, or an actress, or a writer: is that lying too? Actresses have profiles on IMDB, so you can’t say it’s not an orchestrated conspiracy!

So what I want to know is this: How come the government hates women so much that they want to make all this stuff a crime?

Here’s the shocking story: