Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
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Now hold on, if you're the owner of this tattoo please read no further.
Ok. What in the holy hell for fuck's sake is wrong with you?
A. Matching tattoos never a good idea
B. Making your poor boyfriend/husband get a tramp stamp? You're going to emasculate a bro a like that?
C. Of all the quotes in the world you chose that one? From this song by the band Spill Canvas " an American emo acoustic band from Sioux Falls, South Dakota." (wikifuckingpedia rules) who fucking sucks?
D. Why is the C in could capitalized? It's in the middle of a sentence. Not to say that I'm the grammar police or anything but we're talking about a PERMANENT TATTOO. As in this is on your body till kingdom come unless you get it lasered. The only thing that will remove this abomination is LASERS.
You know why people have depression? It's because they spend to much time on facebook and see things like this. My afternoon was literally just ruined by this.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Freep Controversy Continues pt. 2
The editor of The Daily Free Press was asked to resign and she did. To be honest, I feel bad for her. All her hard work ruined by a colossal mistake.
This from the Globe.
And a quote from Dean Elmore
‘‘They’re an independent organization,’’ he said. ‘‘We don’t control their content, so we’re not involved in that at all. I’m going to take a look at [their apology]; that’s what I’m going to do.’’
Monday, April 2, 2012
Freep Controversy Continues
A side note to the below post:
I just received and individual apology to the section I write for, The Muse. It's the arts and entertainment section.
This is entire thing is a bizarre turn of events.
April Fool's Joke Gone Wrong. The Freep.
Boston University's The Daily Free Press publishes a funny spoof newspaper every April first as their April Fool's joke. It is generally light hearted and humorous.
This year, they fucked up. Big time.
Their issue this year was Disney themed and their cover story was a satirical Disney-esque fairy-tale about bros and gang rape. Yes gang rape.
Given the recent events at BU, you know the allegations against the hockey team for sexual assault, this seems rather... uncouth.
Here is a take on it from Jezebel and one from Liz Pelly at the Phoenix. (I prefer Liz Pelly's as I'm not a huge fan of Jezebel at all) You can read about it from the angle of the fighting against rape culture at either of those. I endorse both of these articles. More so Liz's, hers is much more thoughtful.
As someone who writes for the FREEP, and enjoys jokes about Bros, I'd like to beg the question, What the fuck were you thinking in the first place? For a moment let's forget about the sexual assault allegations against our Hockey Team, the recent up-swing in a call to destroy rape culture, Barstool, Occupy, feminism and all the side story.
Writing a parodied news story about gang rape would never be in good taste ever. It really isn't funny. The story was bizarre at best, and at worst quite a disgusting gaffe from what is generally a decent school newspaper.
The backlash has been great. The funniest thing I heard was someone calling to cut funding for The Daily Free Press. Calling to cut funding to our school's only newspaper is a dangerous thing to ask for to start, and secondly impossible as the paper is completely independent from the school. While the fuck up is immense, you can not possibly in good conscience ask for our only and independent news source at BU to be shut down. While they obviously have overseers and advertisers to please, you can't ask for your voice to be taken away. While not directly your first amendment speech, The Daily Free Press stand for independence and news. Something our society has seen greatly diminished. News in our world has far too many overseers to be very independent.
So while I watch the girl next to me post to Facebook the Jezebel article, think for a second. Before regurgitating, contemplate. What the Freep did is inexcusable, and in bad taste, but the editors can't get fired or receive school sanctions. A. Because the paper is independent. and B. because that would go against the very nature of you posting that Jezebel article to Facebook. It is everyone's right to speak freely. We are lucky to have an independent newspaper that fucked up so bad it's not even funny.
In summation, what they published was wrong and you have every right to be upset and perturbed. It was disgusting and humorless and an awful awful execution of satire. And no the apology (found here) was not good or fast enough for such an awful misjudgment. But also be careful about wishing the end of an independent news source.
Also to put things in perspective, this was supposed to be a joke and the real sexual assaults didn't get as much fanfare.
P.S. (This was pointed out by a friend. BU did buy a huge chunk of future advertising from the paper to save them from debt, a no-strings-attached donation of sorts, in order for the paper to retain their independence, and not shut down)
Sunday, April 1, 2012
White Wall Series 7 (Aquatic Sea Life Edition)
The following photographs of The Aquatic Sea Life taken by Joy McEachern
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