2008 Woodie Awards
Letter to the Editor
Natalia Linares '06
Issue date: 9/9/05 Section: Commentary
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To the Editor,
I understand your attempted journalistic tactics for broadening your readership, but must you make such a low blow? "Where my Ho at?" Are you serious? No, but I get it. Double entendre. It's witty, it sure is. Funny? I think not. This is not the NY Post.
I, like many others scoffed in a "ah, how typical"- fashion. Could you be tad more creative and tasteful in your "Ho" jokes? I know the man's name is Robert Ho, but honor him rather than exploit and insinuate a wide-spread phenomenon that is actually to be taken very seriously.
The trafficking of women and children is no laughing matter. Internationally, an estimated two million women and children enter the $20-billion-per-year sex industry per year. An estimated 10-million women and children are ensnared within the system of commercial sexual exploitation. This includes trafficking into prostitution, sex slavery, pornography and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation. (UNICEF, the U.N., and the U.S. Department of Justice.)
Are these the women you unconsciously allude to as "Ho's"? Surely, the author does not see herself in this sort of context, for she would not have written it if she did.but think of all of the "Ho's" who are actually caught in a modern-day slavery as we speak in this country alone.
I picked up your paper because I was shocked, mission accomplished, I guess; but as "The Oldest College Weekly in America," let's strive for the integrity in writing that needs not the attraction of an obvious and obnoxious title.
Natalia Linares
Class of 2006
I understand your attempted journalistic tactics for broadening your readership, but must you make such a low blow? "Where my Ho at?" Are you serious? No, but I get it. Double entendre. It's witty, it sure is. Funny? I think not. This is not the NY Post.
I, like many others scoffed in a "ah, how typical"- fashion. Could you be tad more creative and tasteful in your "Ho" jokes? I know the man's name is Robert Ho, but honor him rather than exploit and insinuate a wide-spread phenomenon that is actually to be taken very seriously.
The trafficking of women and children is no laughing matter. Internationally, an estimated two million women and children enter the $20-billion-per-year sex industry per year. An estimated 10-million women and children are ensnared within the system of commercial sexual exploitation. This includes trafficking into prostitution, sex slavery, pornography and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation. (UNICEF, the U.N., and the U.S. Department of Justice.)
Are these the women you unconsciously allude to as "Ho's"? Surely, the author does not see herself in this sort of context, for she would not have written it if she did.but think of all of the "Ho's" who are actually caught in a modern-day slavery as we speak in this country alone.
I picked up your paper because I was shocked, mission accomplished, I guess; but as "The Oldest College Weekly in America," let's strive for the integrity in writing that needs not the attraction of an obvious and obnoxious title.
Natalia Linares
Class of 2006