Articles like this one are why BBC News isn’t my homepage anymore– at least for the next few weeks. It’s terribly difficult to read about the killings at Virginia Tech, and the formulations like those presented by Sarah Baxter (to be fair, she’s writing for The Times) leave me speechless. I don’t want to think about how much coverage this must be getting back in the States. Not that it isn’t news, or should be ignored… but how often do you hear the same soundbites, watch the interviews with experts, and see clips of his video? All of the second guessing of the school administration’s actions should of course take place, but the time and place that is appropriate, I’m not as sure about. Information overload, that’s really all I’m saying.
But that wasn’t the point. The ‘news’ article and the comments made in it by Camille Paglia are discussed in a few different blogs: here, here, and here. I’m sure there are others as well, but that’s what I’ve come across. Is she aware how much it sounds like she’s trying to blame Cho’s actions on the women who wouldn’t sleep with him? Obviously, she doesn’t state that explicitly, she’s talking about larger social trends and their general effects. And yet…
Here is my reaction–much more eloquent than I could phrase it.
