| badgenome said: You are assuming quite a lot. Firstly, that Pinsof did this for a cheap thrill rather than to get something off his chest (namely, that Sagal was blackmailing him into silence by threatening suicide). He seemed legitimately distraught and didn't go the Kotaku route and write a clickbait article, he just told what he knew on Twitter. Secondly, you assume that there would have been less backlash from any type of article - no matter how high-minded - in which Pinsof still "outed" Sagal. I think that is a pretty huge assumption. |
What did Pinsof need to get off his chest? I'm sorry but if you're a journalist you go after the story, you don't turn away from it.
My only assumption is that Pinsof found not the fraud disgusting, but the individual, and not for his attempt to con people out of their money for his own personal benefit, but because he found Sagal's reasoning for it, surgery for sex reassignment, to be disgusting and loathsome. I think he could have written a thoughtful article, where the names were changed, which I stated, that could have been beneficial to both the individual, the TS community, as well as to indivudals who try to help people they deem in need. Sagal is indeed in need, but not for money, instead for some serious psychological help.
I was part of a community that got emotionally con'd by an individual. We were told big lies. I understand the anger and resentment that whole online communities can feel, but in this situation you're not dealing with someone emotionally stable. You're dealing with someone clearly isn't able to handle his present emotional as well as psychological state.
Again, I think if he was a true journalist, he would have gone after the story rather than exposed a person.
