"He put me in touch with a famous porn impresario - Princess Donna Dolore of Kink studios. We swapped emails. 'Growing up I was ashamed of everything,' she wrote, 'and at a certain point I realised that if I was open with the world about the things that embarrassed me they no longer held any weight! "
"Radical Honesty: Brad Blanton was telling me about how, as a psychotherapist, he had come to understand how so many of us 'live our lives constantly in fear of being exposed, or being judged as immoral or not good enough'. But he had invented a way for us to eradicate those feelings. His method was "
"If by honest you mean "dead honest and rude", some people do like it. Watch You're The Worst. Personally I prefer "dead honest and knows when to shut the fuck up". The difference? Say you see a fat person. Say you don't like him. Honest and rude greeting: Hi. You're really, really fat. I don't like "
"Almost none of the murderous fantasies were dreamed up in response to actual danger--stalker ex-boyfriends, etc. They were all about the horror of humiliation. Brad Blanton was right. Shame internalised can lead to agony."
"If you're a man--to work improprieties and perceived white privilege, and I suddenly understood the real reason why Max had survived his shaming, Nobody Cared. Max survived his shaming because he was a man in a consensual sex shaming--which meant there had been no shaming. I emailed Max to tell him."
強.朗森Jon Ronson
英國知名獨立記者、大眾心理學家、幽默作家、紀錄片工作者、編劇,暢銷書包括《灰色人性》(The Psychopath Test)、《法蘭克》(Frank: The True Story That Inspired the Move)、《海上迷航》(Lost at Sea)和《深入虎穴》(Them: Adventures with Extremists)。首部小說電影劇本《法蘭克》與彼得.史卓翰(Peter Straughan)合著,並由麥可.法斯賓達(Michael Fassbender)主演。改寫自真人實事的小說《瞪死一隻羊》,也被改編為電影《超異能部隊》。撰述常見於《衛報》、《GQ》、《紐約時報》書評等,在BBC第四頻道主持的節目《強.朗森線上》四度入圍索尼廣播學院獎(Sony Radio Academy Awards),為Channel 4拍攝的紀錄片包括《庫伯力克的箱子》(Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes)、《世界的神祕統治者》(The Secret Rulers of the World)。
譯者簡介
戴至中
國立政治大學新聞系畢業,現為職業譯者,譯作有《2062》、《U型理論精要》、《領導者的七種原型》(以上均由經濟新潮社出版)。