High Ball
Disappointingly (and unsurprisingly), my old college newspaper just endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. This endorsement has been covered by the mainstream national news.
I wrote a weekly column at The Daily Pennsylvanian for three years. My relationship with the paper and its staff was very love-hate / Beatrice-Benedict. I'd walk into the office for my obligatory editing sessions, and the boys in charge would jokingly condescend to me as the token Radical Queer Anti-Man Ballbuster that I was. I would, in turn, make fun of their small dicks, metaphorically and non-metaphorically. We all laughed, and we all pretty much meant every word. It was a lot of fun.
The DP was often accused of being anti-woman, or at least disproportionately male. This was true. When they finally chose a female Editor-in-Chief, she was systematically condescended to, with posters all over the office dedicated to "words she doesn't know" and "mythical creatures she's never heard of." The magazine ran cartoons with rape jokes. It was really gross. But I helped a lot of people with my pulpit, and I don't regret the compromise.
I don't know why I'm rambling about this. Oh yeah. The irony that they're now supporting a woman for president, even though that woman is an admitted liar who will not substantively change the way our country is run. Some people like the way things are. People at Penn like the way things are. In the words of Gawker (my whole body shuddered when I typed that), or whoever Gawker is quoting, "Shut up, College."
Love
Dan
ps: Ah, memories.
I wrote a weekly column at The Daily Pennsylvanian for three years. My relationship with the paper and its staff was very love-hate / Beatrice-Benedict. I'd walk into the office for my obligatory editing sessions, and the boys in charge would jokingly condescend to me as the token Radical Queer Anti-Man Ballbuster that I was. I would, in turn, make fun of their small dicks, metaphorically and non-metaphorically. We all laughed, and we all pretty much meant every word. It was a lot of fun.
The DP was often accused of being anti-woman, or at least disproportionately male. This was true. When they finally chose a female Editor-in-Chief, she was systematically condescended to, with posters all over the office dedicated to "words she doesn't know" and "mythical creatures she's never heard of." The magazine ran cartoons with rape jokes. It was really gross. But I helped a lot of people with my pulpit, and I don't regret the compromise.
I don't know why I'm rambling about this. Oh yeah. The irony that they're now supporting a woman for president, even though that woman is an admitted liar who will not substantively change the way our country is run. Some people like the way things are. People at Penn like the way things are. In the words of Gawker (my whole body shuddered when I typed that), or whoever Gawker is quoting, "Shut up, College."
Love
Dan
ps: Ah, memories.
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