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Issa Rae signs a copy of her book for a fan after a reading at Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington. (Photo by Macy Freeman/The Washington Post) If Issa Rae ends up raising her future children in some modern-day equivalent of Walden, blame the Internet. Not the 2015 Internet, but the 1995 Internet. In her new memoir Rae, the 30-year-old creator of the web series “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,” discusses what it was like to grow up in the world of dial-up and chat rooms that was the 1990s. What’s the saying — God looks out for fools and babies? There were a lot of fools connecting with nasty old men thanks to America Online trial CDs and an Internet where there was no catfishing because pretending to be someone else in a chat room was just called “being a person on the Internet.” Like many of her contemporaries, Rae lied about her age to random men she met online, and somehow made it through adolescence and high school unharmed. “At only eleven years old, I was a cyber ho,” she writes in the opening sentence of her memoir, released this month by Simon and Schuster. The book shares its title with her popular web series. “I always say I don’t want a daughter because I don’t want a daughter that’s as dumb and irresponsible as I was, and I will watch her like a hawk,” Rae said recently in an interview. “And then when I have those thoughts, I’m like, well, ‘What the f— was my mom doing?’ and I think it was a different time beca
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Issa Rae signs a copy of her book for a fan after a reading at Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington. (Photo by Macy Freeman/The Washington Post) If Issa Rae ends up raising her future children in some modern-day equivalent of Walden, blame the Internet. Not the 2015 Internet, but the 1995 Internet. In her new memoir Rae, the 30-year-old creator of the web series “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,” discusses what it was like to grow up in the world of dial-up and chat rooms that was the 1990s. What’s the saying — God looks out for fools and babies? There were a lot of fools connecting with nasty old men thanks to America Online trial CDs and an Internet where there was no catfishing because pretending to be someone else in a chat room was just called “being a person on the Internet.” Like many of her contemporaries, Rae lied about her age to random men she met online, and somehow made it through adolescence and high school unharmed. “At only eleven years old, I was a cyber ho,” she writes in the opening sentence of her memoir, released this month by Simon and Schuster. The book shares its title with her popular web series. “I always say I don’t want a daughter because I don’t want a daughter that’s as dumb and irresponsible as I was, and I will watch her like a hawk,” Rae said recently in an interview. “And then when I have those thoughts, I’m like, well, ‘What the f— was my mom doing?’ and I think it was a different time becafrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1MU4wZm
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