512: Oh Noes! An Actual--*le gasp*--REVIEW!!!
Last night, I couldn't get to sleep for thinking. Perhaps, if I still had a room to myself, I could have calmed myself down into tiredness via the usual pacing and talking to myself... Alas, though the roommate situation has improved immeasurably, I'd hate to interrupt his simultaneous watching of House and solving Chemistry formulas. So I had to ( Read more... )
Don't do anything now. I wouldn't write a response, if this is just one person's opinion. Don't assume anybody else feels that way, especially in the Theater Department. The review was fine. I understood trannie fierce, and I live in a cultural cave.
These situations are familiar to me. I have both a master's in theatre, and a I was a journalist during my undergraduate years, writing weekly for three years, daily articles for two years. You're going to get a lot of reaction to what you write. I only responded one time in all those years directly to any response to my writing, and that was an attack on my person. I would, however, address the issues raised in future editorials, but not "respond" to them because the issues get lost that way in arguments that spiral downwards into that dreaded drama of which you speak.
Unless I'm missing something (like the Theatre Dept has officially spoken to you disapprovingly, or queer people are rioting over your use of "trannie fierce".... Outside of that, I would just move on and write your next review.
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But there are so many things wrong with her e-mail that I cannot let stand--her pre-emption of what is offensive to the GLBT community, her denigration of another student organization, her attack on free speech and presumption on what the QC is supposed to do... I want to make a public statement about the misguidedness of these views.
I'm leery of talking to any of the theater people 'cause I don't know if I have the energy for it. But maybe that would be better than starting a textual war...-_-
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