SPIN

SPIN
(n) slant or bias; (antonym: honesty and truth)

-Can be used synonymously as the term which describes the substance most often found in cow pastures among the blades of grass- often covering them.

-The ultimate goal of which is to distort the truth and confuse those who are spinned so that the spin-ee appears in a more positive light to others.


Did you ever play “Pin the tail on the donkey” as a child at a birthday party? Do you remember the dizzy feeling after being ‘spinned’ and blindfolded and pushed towards an invisible target? Well, the Fairy Blogmother warns you to be aware of the spin around you. Don’t be gullible and taken in by distortionists. They abound in society. You find them everywhere- people use spin in sports, in schools, at work, at bars, in the media, in government, and especially in political circles.

You can easily identify talk as SPIN when the speaker, or”spin-ee, ”chooses any or all of these techniques:

-The speaker may raise his/her voice in an attempt to emote sincerity, strength or simply to overcome his/her opponent.

-Often this loud speech is accompanied by a smile, or tears to connote actual feeling.

-Sometimes, a sideways cock of the head is used and it seems to signify: “You know what I mean!” (These manipulative techniques and body language signals are employed because the speaker learned that they were effective in third grade, and perceived by parents as “cute.” Why not continue to use them into adulthood?)

-Spin-ees’ answer few direct questions, and in fact ignore the directness of others, and turn away, usually with a grimace that shows irritation.

-Spin-ees’ rarely if ever admit guilt or take responsibility for any errors .

-Spin-ees’ always look for a helpless scape-goat, usually an underling, to place the blame in a crisis or when caught in an error or lie.

-A spin-ee always looks for support from the naïve among the crowd. He gets the support by acting as if the supporter is important and will be rewarded by being allowed to enter the spin-ee’s special clique.

-The spin-ee will insinuate that if you choose not to join with him and his faithful followers, you might be abandoned and certainly unpopular.

-When the spin-ee comes across someone who disagrees with his viewpoint, he/she will attack that person (if not directly, he/she will get someone in the posse to do it for him/her), but will not attack the person’s beliefs or ideas, and certainly never challenge this person to a debate.


If it sounds like ‘spin,” seems like ‘spin,” and smells like “spin,” walk away before you become a gullible supporter and empower a spin-ee who makes a fool out of you as he struts and smirks about in his self- absorbed sense of reality.