2008 Woodie Awards
[our readers' voice]
Story not worthy of coverage
Issue date: 4/4/08 Section: Voices
My problem with Wednesday's (March 26) article about Susan Colvin's contributions to the sex toy market had nothing to do with the images covering the inside pages.
Pictures of things more polluting can be accessed at the click of a mouse, people don't even have to walk to go get a paper. It was what the article itself that made the biggest impression on me.
I can think of so many amazing people that an article could be written about, people that have changed lives, saved souls, given people hope! Yet we end up praising someone for "changing the marketing of sex toys." What a tragic testimony to our sexually obsessed society. Where sex has been turned more into recreation, instead of the sacred, powerful, unifying act that it is meant to be. Lastly, If Susan Colvin is remembered, it will be for selling sex toys. What if we had a headline written about our lives right now, what would it say? What will you be remembered by?
Joe Vercellino
Midland sophomore
Pictures of things more polluting can be accessed at the click of a mouse, people don't even have to walk to go get a paper. It was what the article itself that made the biggest impression on me.
I can think of so many amazing people that an article could be written about, people that have changed lives, saved souls, given people hope! Yet we end up praising someone for "changing the marketing of sex toys." What a tragic testimony to our sexually obsessed society. Where sex has been turned more into recreation, instead of the sacred, powerful, unifying act that it is meant to be. Lastly, If Susan Colvin is remembered, it will be for selling sex toys. What if we had a headline written about our lives right now, what would it say? What will you be remembered by?
Joe Vercellino
Midland sophomore
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