Brenton
Missing the point
January 19th 2007 01:03
One of the most depressing things about writing a blog is making a really good point, and then watching it go flying over peoples heads. Like my post on pro-anorexic websites being used as a place to request tips on getting skinny. Or another classic example of misunderstanding that comes from Adbusters Magazine, a deeply anti-consumerism publication. The story is of a woman who owned the magazine, having it placed on her desk. A colleague saw it and stared at the cover for ages, before pointing and saying ‘where can I buy those shoes?’
Perhaps one of the best examples is my near albino-white being payed out and called Boo Radly; after the similarly pale character from To Kill a Mockingbird... a book whose moral is based around the evils of discrimination. Sigh.
Really it all goes to show, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t stop him kicking the damn thing over and watching the dirt turn slowly to mud.
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Really it all goes to show, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t stop him kicking the damn thing over and watching the dirt turn slowly to mud.
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