* Posts by Tom Caine

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Yahoo!'s pink liberation army a threat to America's youth

Tom Caine

Bad Writing - Bad editing

If it is satire, its not done very well.

satire so subtle that the majority of readers dont realise its nature is a failure. Satrie seeks to subvert a known perspective using the same language particular to that perspective. Hence politcal satirists mostly 'imitate' the politicians they are ragging, the intention often being to over infate the clams expressed to the point where thier inherant flaws become obvious. Like Swift's giant Gulliver, the concept that what is being said is intentially ridiciouls must be implicit from the outset.

If the perpose of this artical was satire, then it was poorly exicuted. The opinions expressed were pretty much indistiguisable from a opinion peice in a tabloid, from 7 years ago.

If its not satire, then I agree with the post above in that the internet is and should be a place where peopple will say what they like, and you are free to say otherwise, but I am still dismayed that I found this particular expression reported by the register, which gennerally is better than this.

In fact im fairly diaponted if it is satire, This should have been kicked back, maybe a few tweaks on the editor.bot?

At least I had fun writing coments :)

T

p.s. all spelling is deleberate.