Youtube suggested I might be interested in the video after I watched Bornstein’s video contribution to the It Gets Better project. The comments were infantile and debasing-and particularly disheartening since they were coming from what sounded like grown men. One caller asks about the smell of Kate’s “fake” vagina, another states he had his buttocks surgically sewn up and now defecates through his penis, one claims to have his testes caught in a mousetrap, and another states he contemplated suicide due to bad diarrhea. Many callers resort to highly inappropriate, offensive, juvenile comments. The interview takes a turn towards the disturbing when Kate opens up the discussion for callers. On Youtube there is an interview with Lambda Literary award winning writer Kate Bornstein, promoting Borstein’s then-new book Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and other Outlaws (Seven Stories Press), essentially a suicide survival guide. Hello, Cruel World: Kate Bornstein, Internet Hate and the Safety of Books
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