Before you read whatever irrelevant rant I’m going to post here, I suggest you read Smoke’s transcript of the Tracy Borres post, Smoke’s reply, and her take on Tracy’s reply. More required reading comes from ReynaElena. Which means you don’t have to read this. Also, read Reezen TOT’s side of the story. – Marocharim
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Before we “lynch” Tracy Borres, let’s take a step back and see what her entry is about. I read it to be a personal opinion of a personal experience. Ethnocentric? Yes. Offensive? Definitely.
Should she have blogged about it? Absolutely not.
I’m not the most merciful guy on the face of the earth, but Tracy has already been critiqued on the basis of her unpopular opinion. If you asked me, big deal: we all hold unpopular opinions. When you’re reading this blog, you’re reading many unpopular opinions from an anarchist who believes euthanasia and abortion should be legalized. The only difference is that I’m not telling you to pull the plug on a sick relative, and I’m not talking to you about the uses of certain herbs and coat hangers, so to speak.
The problem here is how Tracy Borres wrote about something she knew was offensive, wrote it in a way she knew was tactless, and expected too little of a consequence for it. And the least she could manage was… “Sigh sigh.”
The question this time is whether or not Tracy deserves the flak coming to her. Well no, and it’s not because I have a soft spot for colegiala types with ditzy humor who have some measure of “hitsura…” well, yeah, I do. Anyway…
