How to find the perfect husband in college
 

http://www.redandblack.com/opinion/h...tml?TNNoMobile

Wow. I realize that this is supposed to be a joke.... but this really the kind of PR you want?

Regardless of whether or not this is a satire or joke, I personally think it's in bad taste to have your letters in your standard reporter photo. As someone who writes for her own school paper, we are told not to reveal affiliations in our articles or anything so as not to let readers' pre-conceived notions of us based on our letters affect how they interpret the article. And from reading the comments posted on it, you can see how that's happening here.

Also, ignoring the fact that her letters happen to be my own, it's sad how this is now going to affect the overall image of her sorority on campus when it was just one stupid article. This is absolutely not the kind of PR any organization would want (unless they're the "Pre-MRS" club).

I think this is supposed to be satire. Bless her heart.*

In any case, WTF is a frocket?

*Did I do that right, Southerners?

CO-sign what happilyanchored said. Wish I'd written her response.

That was a really poor attempt at satire. FYI: a frocket is a fraternity pocket tshirt, with your letters and event name on the front pocket.

Well played, y'all.

The fact that there are a lot of people who think this article is serious proves this is a big pile of stinking satire fail.

Excellent use of "bless her heart", DBB!

I was hopeful that it would turn out also to be a satirical, fictionalized persona as well, but alas, no. There's a real DG member listed by that name on their webpage. Maybe she was deliberately playing up the sorority stereotypes with her letters in the photo for the sake of irony? Maybe? Pretty please that she at least intended all this and won't be blindsided by her own foolishness?

I think it's normal that college sophomores write bad satire or even write/say silly things sincerely that will embarrasses them later. I know I did (and continue to, decades after I quit being a college sophomore)

It's a bummer that this ends up with large an audience. I will continue to hope the writer was prepared for the response.

Just because it's a real person doesn't mean it's not satire.

IMO, it screamed satire, but that's just me.

Ditto some of the other points. I hope she realizes that the internet = forever, and that potential employers may see this and think WTF later.

Oh, yeah, I get that, but I meant that in addition to being (I hope) a satire, I hoped that the writer hadn't dragged her real letters into it.

I knew it was satire immediately...but it is still badly written

I'm also just really curious...why was this posted over the summer? Our school paper only updates things in the summer if something extremely important happens. This...is not exactly what I would consider important.

Her parents must be so proud that this crap what she has learned from her college education... :rolleyes:

Hopefully DG comes down on her for wearing her letters & identifying her organization in this dreadful piece. It was totally unneccessary for her to identify herself as a DG.

I think if she had used some more punctuation, this would have been taken less seriously.

I need to take this girl under my wing and teach her how to be witty.

I'll admit that I snickered a little.

There wasn't enough sarcasm to be really witty. It kind of fell flat. You don't get points for trying, sorry.

Wow. After reading this, I immediately thought of this quote from Billy Madison:

"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

(OK, that's a little harsh, but you have to admit that piece was pretty awful.)

"Okay, a simple no would have done just fine..."

"perfect husband" ? is that not an oxymoron?

[*ducks and runs like the wind. I know I know. I just can't help it. Flame away.]

I mean, we could get into a huge philosophical discussion now, and I suspect I'm in big trouble for yet another off topic thread derailment.

I. Just. Can't. Help. It.

Put me in the corner. Wait, I'll put myself in the corner and save you guys the trouble.

Nobody puts AzTheta in a corner.

You beat me to the punch.

DaffyKD

SHE IS A PUBLIC RELATIONS MAJOR.

*snort*

She has obviously slept through PR 101. Or...she was busy looking for a husband in the crowd and didn't pay attention.

ZING! :p

The Red and Black, although you wouldn't know it from this piece or even their coverage of Greek Life generally, is a pretty serious college paper. UGA has a great journalism school, and as far as I know, they publish year round.

I am glad this ran now rather than right before recruitment if it needed to run at all.

That little biographical detail was one of the reasons I hoped the whole persona was part of the satire.

Do you ever find yourself making things better than they really are on a literary or artistic level? I think I did that here at first.

If the writer really was who the byline and picture showed in real life, it was a sophomoric, run of the mill, and poorly thought out effort; however, if the writer actually made up this hapless Public Relations major, writing this sophomoric, run of the mill, poorly thought out effort, which would clearly result is bad public relations for herself and the sorority she was repping in her photo, it was slightly chortle-worthy.

ETA: Now I just feel bad. She's probably a sweetie, and I've insulted her jokey column on a message board. But really, wouldn't it have been much funnier if the whole thing were made up?

It was clearly satire, and had the potential to be funny, but I'm nowhere near as scandalized as some of y'all are.

It's a summer issue of a college magazine.

Oh I see. Huh. Interesting.

That is true though. I don't know how many new students/PNMs read the paper before they even get on campus (or even when they get on it), so I do have to kind of be glad that if this had to run, it ran now. Its got a month to blow over before recruitment starts.

And I really hope it does. Blow over, I mean.

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I think any discussion if it by then will seem like beating a dead horse, but I hope she was prepared for 108 comments, 314 tweets and a bunch of facebook and internet links. Maybe she'll make a name for herself as a humorous columnist, and we can say that we remember reading one of her early efforts.

I love this! and....

iDied!

My husband thinks he's perfect. He is mistaken. Sorely.

Perfect response!

She's failing.

This reminds me of the article my ex (he wasn't my boyfriend till a couple years after this) wrote for the school paper. He said that only losers and nerds ate on the right side of the cafeteria, and that swimmers, Zetas, and other people of high social standing ate on the left side. If you knew him and the antipathy he had for Greek life, you KNEW he was making fun of the whole concept, but if you didn't know him (which a lot of people didn't as he was a transfer student) you could have very easily found it offensive.

I'm guessing this is similar - that the girl who wrote it is of a "quirky" nature and everyone who knows her will find it hilarious that she wrote on such a subject. However, in these days of the Internet, it can go across the world in 2.5 seconds and come across really badly.

Agreed. See, of course, A Modest Proposal, and all the people who didn't get it.

What makes this a failure is more the fact that it is neither original nor insightful.

Did you know this was a recommended story on Business Insider website? Someone sent me a link to pop v soda map and this chick was at the bottom. I don't know if the rule about any publicity is good publicity applies here.

Just realized that chick is not very respectful way to describe someone, so sorry before I get flamed.:(

:D

Quite true, but these chicks will get over it. If women can tolerate being called guys, they can certainly be a chick. Adorable creatures they are.

(There is the edit feature if you want to click the chick.)

Celebrate diversity.

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