Desperately Seeking Normal
» Internet
Supposedly they are everywhere. Normal people. Those who boast of being such often strike me as perversely impoverished: sexually, aesthetically, politically. The last thing I’m looking for in another person.
Regina Lynn writes:
I was astonished at how many craiglist personals — in flavors ranging from “casual encounters” to “erotic services” to “men seeking women” — included reassurance from the author that he was normal, no matter what sexual desires he had just described.
Why? It doesn’t mean anything. Even an ax murderer can type “I’m a normal guy.” And why would you want to present yourself as ordinary and average instead of unique and extraordinary?
“Public perception is still that the internet is full of creeps, weirdos, psychos and perverts, much more so than the ‘real’ world,” a friend explained to me. “‘Normal’ is an attempt to say I’m Not One Of Them.”
Is ‘Internet Normal’ the New ‘Sex Normal’?
