“The Yeti” once again uses outrageous material to stir emotions on the CU campus.
The multi-talented and bright individual that writes these issues has a good handle on journalism; however, shock-value and reader manipulation create a biased paper.
This last issue of “The Yeti: Eleven” (www.yetipaper.com) has an incredible attention-drawing lead, “Women are pussies.” The reader is then lead down three anecdotes that “The Yeti” claims are perfectly ordinary and reasonable because they are real events that he knows have experienced.
However, the reader is tricked here. The stories he tells force the reader to agree with him. For example, at the end of the first story, he asks the reader to guess the sex of the protagonist. “Is Trogbox a guy or a girl? Any guesses? A girl, you say? Why, yes! That’s exactly right.” Not only is the reader tricked here, but they are also tricked into believing him because he attempts to give weight to his argument because he is a psychology major.
“As a psychology major, I firmly believe that our personalities are shaped by our environments,” the author said. “How could anyone be raised on doll houses and forced violin lessons and turn out healthy?”
Good point indeed. Except that not all women were raised like this, especially women in different cultures.
I decided to draft my own “Yetiesque” story, to try and demonstrate that women are not cowards. Maybe now women will be represented fairly and not bound by the stereotype The Yeti creates. Here it is:
Sasquatch romps through the woods, dodges the respectable pooh-flinging monkeys, passes a girl in a red hood and sees the shimmering golden hair of a wandering woman.
Sasquatch is not interested in these fairy tales, but is interested in 17th century Mexico and France.
!Viva la iglesia Catolica! Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was an outspoken Mexican nun that fought for women’s rights. She takes Sasquatch’s hand and tells how the almighty Church endangered her. Apparently posing the question, “who sins more, she who sins for pay or he who pays for sin?” was too much for the Church to handle. The ever so brave patriarchal super power condemned her and forced the nun to stop writing, seems that somebody was afraid of Sor Juana’s ink.
Sasquatch meanders on, and off in the distance hears “la fille de Minos et de Pasiphae.” He approaches the voice and finds himself sitting next to Jean Racine, watching Phedre unfold before his eyes. The five-act play unifies time, place and action and clearly shows Oenone and Phedre manipulating the throne for their own needs. Although tragic in ending, the women in the play clearly do not coward before man.
Just then Sasquatch is pitched into a black time wrinkle and awakes sitting in front of a TV. The news is on and an astronaut is being arrested for attempting to kidnap a romantic rival. The astronaut was carrying in her car a BB pistol, a steel mallet, a knife, rubber tubing and large plastic garbage bags. Guess what sex the astronaut was? Female.
Maybe the first time one gets slapped by a lady, one will think twice about how cowardly women are not and how scornful they can become. Until then stick with the fairy tales. Women carry the hooves’ milk.
P.S. Dr. Lipstadt speaks very well huh? Interesting how she could have ever taken on David Irving and won.
Contact Campus Press Staffwriter Gary Black at Gary.Black@theCampusPress.com.
