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Yeah unfortunately that one sentence has overridden this whole article because of the nature of Twitter--people keep retweeting and piling on without ever readi
by homosaur 14y ago
Yeah unfortunately that one sentence has overridden this whole article because of the nature of Twitter--people keep retweeting and piling on without ever reading the article. It was a really dumb statement though. I don't even understand how to begin with that. Wouldn't you assume audience is more related to content than how positive or how many vaginas someone has? This just seems to focus on the wrong thing...
- j_s 14y agoI was reading along, thinking 'this guy seems to have his head on fairly straight' - an even-handed evaluation of the situation. When I read what I quoted above I experienced (maybe more clearly than I ever have before) the classic 'wait, wut? [sic]'. The first thing that came to mind: This Party Took a Turn for the Douche (by Garfunkel and Oates) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHH3brmhPyw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHH3brmhPyw edit: Trying to explain how odd it was to find that in the article
- gojomo 14y agoI wonder if there would have been the same reaction had Salmon instead written his observation with leftish-academic word choice: To a certain extent, this is a gendered phenomenon: positive happy bloggers are disproportionately female, as are their readers. Same idea – which may or may not be true, but it seems plausible enough to entertain for the purposes of casual opinionated discussion. The rephrasing gives it more intellectual and euphemistic padding, as a defense against knee-jerk outrage.
- hudibras 14y agoFelix Salmon has now apologized. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/02/19/an-apology/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/02/19/an-apology/