Be careful when... (540 hits)
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Submitted by InkyFingers (View user info) at 2008-09-21 07:27:27 EDT
trying to make your first article as section editor an attention grabber: you write the con piece in a pro-con section about the disadvantages of there being a women's majority at your school. If you dumb it up so people don't take the piece seriously becuase you have no problem with the women at the school make sure it becomes satire. Because sometimes people will date you for almost two years to ruin your life as a result.
Some ways to avoid this problem are not to let the section co-editor pick which side of the argument they want to take before you do, then taking the remainder to try and be a nice guy. DON'T write such a touchy article right after a close family memeber dies and you spend three weeks working through funeral and inheritance discussions. DON'T write such a touchy article a week after the girl you're dating dumps you. DON'T half ass it because you don't take the article seriously enough to revise beyond grammatical mistakes. When your co-editor reads it and remarks on the tone, DON'T ignore them because your intention at various points in the article was to create fodder for the the school's increasingly successful feminists, a subtle ploy so crafty and clever in a neg. feminist majority article that, in your mind, it elevates the article beyond the grasp of your co-editor who has some concerns about the tone.
Two years later, when you read the article and realize it sounds as though you curb-stomp kittens on Christmas morning, and a wave of nausea washes over you as your eyes trace the copious anger (borderline hatred) which permeates the article, try not to think about all the people that were taking shots at you your last year in college while you were trying to figure out what the fuck was happening.
Oh yeah, and DON'T try explaining the article years later on a social networking site by rephrasing the article's title (to protect your school's name) only to inadvertantly have the new name sound like you had issues with women attending college in general.
Of course, if you've made all the following mistakes already, you're probably a hopeless idiot that nobody would miss.
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Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2008-09-22 13:34:02 EDT (#)
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Thanks for sharing.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2008-09-22 12:56:30 EDT (#)
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Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2008-09-22 12:19:41 EDT (#)
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Ha ha ha. Post the article. I'll +2 it, I promise.
Submitted by ICO (user info) at 2008-09-21 17:18:54 EDT (#)
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I like the mocking undercurrent in this what I think to be self-reflective memo.
I could be seeing this all wrong, though, but it made me smile.
Submitted by sandmantate (user info) at 2008-09-21 13:24:13 EDT (#)
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This was really hard to read
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2008-09-21 11:10:42 EDT (#)
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I didn't this sucked.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-09-21 11:08:18 EDT (#)
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Submitted by darko (user info) at 2008-09-21 10:44:23 EDT (#)
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That said, it'd be a good uber contest for the day to have everyone try to write what they think your article sounded like.
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Here's what it sounded like to me:
I fucked up on several levels because I'm not actually very good at what I do. I will provide no indication that I have learned anything from this.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2008-09-21 10:44:23 EDT (#)
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That sounds like the dumbest idea for an article ever. The only way a similar article should ever be written would be if it was done at a college like Morehouse where it's exclusively all male or an all black college and it focuses solely on the benefits of how it feels like all of the other students get you. And even then you can't do a con section without being racist or sexist.
That said, it'd be a good uber contest for the day to have everyone try to write what they think your article sounded like.
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2008-09-21 09:07:53 EDT (#)
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be careful when.....
crossing a street.
Submitted by locksly (user info) at 2008-09-21 07:48:17 EDT (#)
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Sorry I had troube reading this, maybe there is too many words in each sentence, not enough sentences or a combination of both and the fact i am too baked to remember the previous sentence.
plus 1 in good faith I would have liked it.
Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2008-09-21 07:38:17 EDT (#)
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And another point:
When a faculty member steps in to respond, writing a letter to the paper, DON'T ignore their concern because they didn't get your "vision" (to write a con-feminist majority article that was subtly pro-feminist). And DON'T repeatedly post the articles (pro and con) on the newspaper door, waiting for people to realize your good idea even after someone tears it down.
DON'T try and combine "stupid" with "well-known feminist themes" to create subterfuge against the local patriarchy. Unless you are a well established feminist people won't get it and you'll look like an ass. And, more likely than not you're just going to piss people off.
Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2008-09-21 07:30:51 EDT (#)
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* edit (if the article is not clearly satire, someone may date you fro two years to ruin your life.)