Satire? Yeah...right...

[Athos_000]

Hold a sobbing friend in your arms for hours, then come back and tell me how "funny" your "satire" is. 

I agree, obviously the writers and editors have never known anyone who has been raped. They have never seen the constant fear in the eyes of their sister or friend, never experienced the loss of spirit of someone they loved because of this brutality. I am so angry I am shaking!

[kathrynne]

Hold a sobbing friend in your arms for hours, then come back and tell me how "funny" your "satire" is. 

I agree, obviously the writers and editors have never known anyone who has been raped. They have never seen the constant fear in the eyes of their sister or friend, never experienced the loss of spirit of someone they loved because of this brutality. I am so angry I am shaking!

I couldn't read it. Just didn't even try because I knew that would be my reaction.

[Belle]

How horrible and shameful. How can anybody older than 12 not understand how WRONG it was to write this article???

And the [insert favorite expletive here] who wrote it didn't even have the decency or the common sense to provide a worthwhile apology.

"We didn't know the campus community as well as we thought we knew, and because of that that's why we're getting this backlash and we're sorry because of it," Rowan wrote in the apology.

There was an e-hell thread a while back about what makes a "good" apology. Rowan's apology was [insert more favorite expletives here]. He DIDN'T apologize. He said he was sorry because of the backlash that they're getting! He never even said he was sorry that he published the article. Not even a fake attempt at apologizing, let along a real apology that would indicate that he was actually sorry for spreading such hurtful ideas. No, he apologized because he didn't judge the campus well enough. I'm sorry, where exactly does he think such "satire" would be acceptable???

Give me a pair of those knitting needles!

[Amanita]

I rather like the get-even plan involving the biker shorts and cup of sand myself:)
I've got a sick sense of humour- dead baby jokes, anyone? But I saw NOTHING humourous or redeeming in that sorry excuse for an article. It was pure sickness, plain and simple. I second and third the posters who say this insensitive twit needs to spend some time with real rape survivors and their loved ones. I feel that rape is so heinous that I can't even bring myself to wish it on him. But perhaps give him some of that fear that some women live with.

As for real rapists, I've got a few sharp blades that could use some testing. Starting with certain offending body parts that they seem to like using as weapons. Rapists are human trash, as far as I'm concerned.

[VorFemme]

I helped Snarky VorFemme dig into the stash.  We have knitting needles from 15(?) to 2 (four needle set for knitting in the round); sewing machine needles for leather, knits, denim, batiste, and embroidery (titanium for strength); crewel needles; doll sculpture needles nine inches long; embroidery needles; quilting needles not that much thicker than an eye lash; rusty needles; and thousands of pins in various lengths...........

I have an electric pencil sharpener in case we need sharper points on the needles and a couple of boxes of new pencils - just in case we run out of sharp things before we run out of places to stick them.

Snarky VorFemme and I don't usually advocated bad luck happening to people - so instead of a first person understanding of the damage rape or molestation can do - he should spend a year working on a crisis hotline, volunteering with survivor's groups, and working with police to investigate.  Maybe two years...............

***Grabs Snarky VorFemme to head back into the kitchen for more hot tea***  Excuse me, this is NOT helping.  Time to watch a nice nature study - perhaps flowers blooming and trees growing - to avoid any images that might set her off again.

[blue2000]

Snarky VorFemme and I don't usually advocated bad luck happening to people - so instead of a first person understanding of the damage rape or molestation can do - he should spend a year working on a crisis hotline, volunteering with survivor's groups, and working with police to investigate.  Maybe two years...............

I don't know that I'd go for that particular one. Can you imagine what he would say to some poor soul looking for help? 

Since he wants a career in journalism, I think typing up and printing public awareness articles on violence against women would be a nice job for him. Someone else would write them, of course.

That is, after Snarky Vorfemme gets finished with the sharp things. We have to let her have SOME fun.

[IndianInlaw]

On the bright side, no reputable paper will hire them after graduation.

[Chartreuse]

On the bright side, no reputable paper will hire them after graduation.

Curses, there goes the quality of the articles in my favorite tabloids!   

In all seriousness, I'm another one of the sick humored board members, I can get a laugh out of the very twisted.  But, there are certain things that are not funny.  And even if this was a topic that could be made light of, the writing in the article was definitely poor enough that it wasn't funny.  I kind of wish that every potential date he may have ends up aware of this article.  It definitely showed a side to the guy that probably ought to be a huge warning:  danger, not empathetic and/or not smart enough to have good judgement about humor.