The following comment just came up in the moderation queue for my review of :

I’m sure this horrible and troubling film will do well enough with the frat boy types it has been engineered to appeal to, and date-rape culture will continue to thrive on college campuses.

My first response was to approve the comment, and then make a quick post saying “Gee, I knew idiocy like this existed, but it’s funny seeing it on posted straight to my blog. Doesn’t this person realize that the ‘all sex is rape’ line trivializes actual rape, and misogynistically implies that women can’t make decisions for themselves?” But then I noticed that both the e-mail and the URL given in the comment contained the words “thai” and “ads.” Clicked the link and indeed, it was a strange website probably trying to sell me something, though I’m not sure about that because it was written in a script I don’t recognize.

Has anybody heard of this happening before? Is this the new thing in internet spam–to post a seemingly legitimate comment with a link to whatever you’re trying to sell? It makes sense–I assume most spam filters focus on cutting out the stuff that has “buy cialis” typed fifty times, rather than focusing on URLs. It may be that one day, spam filters will simply have to block links to entire URLs.

BTW, the movie is out on limited release. It may not be in a theater near you, but if it is, go see it ASAP.