Been having a chuckle lately with all the pro/anti Junko/Jennifer/Yoon postings on USG.  It's particularly funny to listen to her "supporters," who keep writing that hobbyists need to "treat her like a person," "treat her like a lady," "don't treat her like a piece of meat," or that it's quid pro quo, where if you treat her well, she will treat you well, etc., etc., etc.  Speaking as someone who has rode (no pun intended) the Junko wave up and down, for years, I just laugh and shake my head, as these fellas just don't know.  Really.

While I don't want to place myself in the "anti-Junko" forces, I fully understand them.  To say that she is wildly fickle is a complete and utter understatement.  While I feel badly that she is referred to as possibly bi-polar, or suffering from some other mental illness, I cannot rule these things out.  Combine this with the logical reasoning skills of a preteen, and it makes for a volatile mix.  I am guilty of yo-yoing her around on occasion, as I would entertain her manic notions at times.  She can be very charming and sweet, and capriciously swing around 180 degrees in a few minutes.  More often than not, the culprit was "jealously," fueled by her serious, serious insecurity.  I put "jealousy" in quotes because it usually isn't jealousy in the way that most adults mean it -- it's jealousy that we felt as infants/toddlers, over things that we didn't want until someone else was interested in it.  Except with Junko, it was one step further -- it wasn't that someone else was ACTUALLY interested -- just herself going through bizarre what-if scenarios in her head.

I'm glad that I'm off the ride, but in a odd way, I'm a little sad for her.