Comments on: Blown out of Proportion http://angiewiatrowski.nationalsportsreview.com/2008/05/06/blown-out-of-proportion/ Just another NationalSportsReview.com weblog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:31:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Kara Spak http://angiewiatrowski.nationalsportsreview.com/2008/05/06/blown-out-of-proportion/#comment-22 Kara Spak Tue, 06 May 2008 23:10:16 +0000 http://angiewiatrowski.nationalsportsreview.com/2008/05/06/blown-out-of-proportion/#comment-22 As a journalism student, you should be able to recognize the difference between a column and a news story. Slezak=column. That's why her picture and opinion are in there. The news story that I wrote never said I was "making a huge deal out of it" or ascribed any sense of what I think about this. As a journalism student, you should be able to recognize the difference between a column and a news story. Slezak=column. That’s why her picture and opinion are in there. The news story that I wrote never said I was “making a huge deal out of it” or ascribed any sense of what I think about this.

]]> By: den cotton http://angiewiatrowski.nationalsportsreview.com/2008/05/06/blown-out-of-proportion/#comment-21 den cotton Tue, 06 May 2008 19:13:47 +0000 http://angiewiatrowski.nationalsportsreview.com/2008/05/06/blown-out-of-proportion/#comment-21 We generally get offended about trivial things. But I also can understand how some women would be upset because I probably have a friend or two who would think that is pretty tasteless. However, at the same time, jokes and pranks are just that. I mean, I guess I might be offended if my sister was a blow-up doll. In one of the weekly entertainment newspapers I read often, there is a paid advertisement featuring women in business every year. The feature was satired in the same edition with a completely chauvinistic, stereotyped parody. Which, in essence, exemplified that there are many successful women owning local businesses. Several women were outraged or either thought the satire was in bad taste; some thought it was bad timing. Obviously, that is a completely different example. But it just shows how certain things can be over analyzed I traveled with a baseball team and I never knew any of the players who actually needed blow-up dolls; and that might be more offensive to some. We generally get offended about trivial things. But I also can understand how some women would be upset because I probably have a friend or two who would think that is pretty tasteless. However, at the same time, jokes and pranks are just that. I mean, I guess I might be offended if my sister was a blow-up doll.

In one of the weekly entertainment newspapers I read often, there is a paid advertisement featuring women in business every year. The feature was satired in the same edition with a completely chauvinistic, stereotyped parody. Which, in essence, exemplified that there are many successful women owning local businesses. Several women were outraged or either thought the satire was in bad taste; some thought it was bad timing.

Obviously, that is a completely different example. But it just shows how certain things can be over analyzed I traveled with a baseball team and I never knew any of the players who actually needed blow-up dolls; and that might be more offensive to some.

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