Have you ever met a Mark who wasn’t?
Writing by treason on Saturday, 30 of September , 2006 at 5:37 pm
“The latest topic to be taken up by the social-problem shows is pedophilia, which appears to be cutting across such a wide swath of America that it has taken shape in our minds as a map of flight patterns out of O’Hare. If Will Rogers never met a man he didn’t like, informed Americans have never met a man who wasn’t a child molester…”
– Florence King, “Diversity On The Prowl,” National Review/October 9, 2006
I wasn’t going to comment on Mark Foley today because I didn’t comment on Jim McGreevey’s recent pride tour, but what the heck. Here goes.
As soon as the story broke I went online and started reading e-mail excerpts. Okay, that could be perfectly innocent. He’s just taking an interest in this kid. There were words on the page, sure, but then there was…that feeling.
I called T over and asked him to read what I’d just read. He got to about the second or third line, pushed his chair back, and started to get up.
“But there’s more.”
“Nope. Don’t need to read any more.”
“But — “
“That’s all I needed to see and I don’t need to see any more.”
And that confirmed what I’d thought, too. I’m not a sixteen year-old boy, but I’ve had plenty of e-mail conversations with strangers. There’s usually a point when you get…that feeling. Generally it happens when the other person wants to know what you look like.
“Hey, send me a photo, okay?”
Innocent or not, that alarm goes off in your head. And at that point you either send a photo or you make the decision to stop communicating with the person. It’s happened to me before, and it doesn’t matter how witty, how smart, how interesting that other person seems, I’ve made the latter choice every time. No photo. It’s just…that feeling.
It’s the same feeling one of the kids who was corresponding with Foley got and he ended communications. My question is: why would any kid make the decision to continue the correspondence?
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