Friday, April 4, 2008

Psychopaths and Narcissists

I've recently discovered a website going by the name of "Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias: Online Resource for Victims of Psycopaths and Narcissists." Wait... what? At first I thought it was some diatribe written BY a psychopath or a narcissist... a bitter ex-girlfriend... someone a little "off." But no (??) the site claims to be written by a group of women (mostly women) in the psychiatric field which is why they chose to name themselves after two chick flicks. They've gone as far as to purchase the domain "FriedGreenTomatoes.org".

Personally I think it borders on disgusting. My reaction may be strong but I think using the name of someone else's property purely for site views is deceitful. You can argue that there were "psycopaths and narcissists" in Fried Green Tomatoes (Frank Bennett? The KKK?) but the site doesn't even claim to be about those issues and just links to a bunch of articles about a variety of "psychopaths in the news."

Sure - use Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias as your concept inspiration for site design and solidarity among women but DON'T buy FriedGreenTomatoes.org! (Keep in mind that not only am I a fan of the movie and the creator of this site but I'm also a trained information designer for interactive media so I speak from multiple viewpoints on this.)

Anyway... point is.... don't go to FriedGreenTomatoes.org thinking you're going to find anything about the movie. (And I realize that by talking about the site I'm giving it a higher rank in search engines... but still!)

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