On stalkers and fanaticals
Posted on April 23, 2010
Some of you may remember Martin Delgado (aka Bonder Rodriguez).
About a year ago he messaged me to convey his admiration of the film. I thanked him and it seemed innocuous enough.
When he soon told me that he was making marketing efforts on the film’s behalf to entertainment blogs and sites, I thanked him but asked him politely to cease. It’s very important that I control the brand and message at this stage.
Long story short, the relationship deteriorated and he quickly became a troll. After that turn of events, I don’t know what he said to the blogs and sites about me, but if it was anything like what he said to me…
Hopefully, all his email efforts went down the same black hole mine do with these publishers.
It climaxed when he mentioned in an email a compliment about my daughter’s performance in a school recital. I’ve never met him face to face. So, I had to get stern and threaten a restraining order. i haven’t heard from him in over a year.
Before I get to the recent development, let me inject a humorous anecdote.
There was another strange email conversation with an admirer that made me nervous (because of recent events with Martin.)
Andy’s email name was Toby Damit, he moderated The Secret Hand-Holding Society on MySpace. We’d discuss the film and it’s message and peoples we both knew from it. But then, his messages would ramble into non-sequiturs like this:
“i am too weak……..i want to come out……..i am too weak and weird…………….i am a recluse…………………….i smell…………………im ugly………………….i cant be around people……………..let’s have a secret pen-pal-menship here through electronic mail in a invisible world of 1’s and 0’s”
That left me thoroughly rattled until Adam Dapkus verified for me that he knew him and that he was cool, if just a bit off.
So, the recent development involves a lady named Suzy McG (sometimes credited as “McGee’.) She’s been offended by the film and had started a campaign to stop it.
Here’s the FaceBook group she started:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114882311869876
She makes board posts about this all over the internet. In a delicious twist of irony, they all are removed soon after. So, I can’t post a working link. But the message has made itself into several email chains. Here it is:
Help me stop an anti-American film!!!
Please help me fight for our American integrity.
I cannot stand by when a film is about to be released about college students having sex with prostitutes, filming the sex sessions, and making pornography!
A friend of mine told me about a screening she went to back in November, in Fort Worth Texas, at the film festival they hold there.
It’s called “BackPage”, written and produced by a lesbian. This isn’t another suburban folklore, this is the website:
http://www.backpagemovie.com/clips/
I’m an open-minded, modern woman, but outright hatred and disrespect for women is intolerable, in my opinion.
Furthermore, I have found out that the film also smears and denigrates our armed forces, and deliberately mocks conservative American values.
But, what shocked me the most is the vulgar way the Bush administration and the Tea Party movement is portrayed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot5dm7b-7N8
WARNING!!!! The following clip has the worst profanity and sexual vulgarity!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_OUL2cfOfo
I haven’t seen the film, but I cannot imagine how scenes such as these could have an appropriate context in any film!
I’m sorry to bother you, but I’m at a loss about how to approach this particular issue.
I was content to let the film die in obscurity after that screening, but I just found out that the film is gaining momentum at more and more festivals and will soon be released nation-wide!
I know what power a positive conservative vocal majority can have to influence such matters. We recently stopped the blasphemous homosexual Jesus play “Corpus Christi” from being performed in both Tarleton State U, Stephenville and Fort Worth, Texas. All we need are more little victories like this, and I know that the same thing can happen here.
I don’t know what to do, but maybe the manager of the film can be forced to listen to reason?
They are Virgil Films:
http://www.virgilfilmsent.com/
The site has a contact page full of email addresses of their staff to reach them. I’ve already written to these people and told them I do not appreciate their efforts.
I’ve also messaged all the conservative, republican, tea party, and christian groups I can contact. But all of them either do not respond or pass the buck to other groups. I know they are busy with important world-shaping events, but I’m at a loss. At the very least, please forward this email to those friends and family of yours that do care about our country’s moral fiber.
I’ve created a FaceBook group to mobilize this movement:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114882311869876
We already have almost one hundred members.
Is there somebody you could pass this on to that can do something? They need to know that quality citizens won’t silently be mocked and slandered.
Definitely, if you see this DVD at your store, or available online, or the film scheduled at local festivals near you, we need to let those proprietors know that we will not tolerate such filth!
Thank you,
Suzy “McG”
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