Here's a question for all you Jack-Heads. (Jack-Offs? What does he call his fans?)
I've been poking around the farms for almost a year now, and it seems to me that people are often the most fascinated by the cows that hit a close-to-home nerve. This is probably not a new observation. I see some current and former fatties in the deathfats section, some people with caregiving experience in the Munchausens' and tard baby threads, etc. I won't go on, as there are as many diverse types of cows as there are grains of sand on the beach, but I believe this is fairly widespread. Nobody becomes a lolcow who doesn't ping quite a few people with "There but for the grace of God go I..." (Or by the grace of a little more intelligence, a little less autism, and not being a huge fucking narcissist.)
But Jack is one of my regular threads to check up on, and I'm not sure why. There is nothing about him that hits me close to home.
In some ways, he's sort of like an UberCow. He's got features of several other major cows:
- Fat and stubborn about it
- Neglecting health in a spectacular fashion
- Lazy as balls
- Autistically obsessed with something stupid
- Assumes he's brilliant at something he's actually terrible at
- Wants attention and money for nothing
- Child abuser
- Narcisisst
He's also a conservative, religious, idiot baby boomer, but those factors aren't what make him a lolcow. He is, however, the only conservative cow that I follow. As a left-leaning person, I find the left-leaning cows more fascinating/interesting/upsetting, and I don't think I'm alone there. I actually find the conservatives cows I've looked at pretty boring... but not Jack.
I know many people in this thread came to Jack because they were disgusted by his food. Perhaps you are foodies or chefs, and that's why this hits you close to home. I'm curious as to why other people find Jack to be a satisfying cow. Is he just a perfect storm of cowiness?