The 2016 Hampshire College Protest

connection is the first thing I noticed about Matamoros.

Grace Lucas and Horror Theater Vids

I can’t say it’s exactly a lift to see the reaction - of someone who says she is a Hadley resident no less - to the way Scare Theater represents me: as a monster, a lunatic, as the subject of "horror theater vids," as Grace Lucas puts it.

Naturally, I wonder whether people like Grace, and her friends and family, speculate about me. Do they discuss me at the kitchen table? Spread the word around town? Make sure everyone knows I live among them? Do they drive past my home to get a better look at me? Do they think about slashing my tires, pushing me around? Punching me? Kind of like this recent comment on the same Scare Theater video?

Which is pretty light stuff compared to comments like these, that expressed a desire to beat, torture, or kill me.

I assume commenters like Grace know that I see their comments. Why wouldn’t I? After all, I’m the subject of the very video on which they are commenting. I am the person Grace Lucas and many others in the Hadley area are talking about. Why would I not monitor the comments on Scare Theater? 

I just don't know whether Grace and her family and friends, considering the nature of the Scare Theater video, might be nervous that I actually live among them, maybe even next door or just down the street, that I stand near them at the grocery store or pass by them at the mall or on the sidewalk. That I stroll past their schools, sit behind them in church or at town meetings. I hope not.

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