Oh I’m pissed. Pissed pissed pissed. I have been asked by my editor, who was asked by the CEO, who was asked by some senseless, stupid, humorless, sensitive, easily offended, stupid bitch (yes, bitch - and probably a young idiot, too) to remove a photo with a caption on it. The caption includes another name for a pig in a blanket. If you’re a writer, and I’m not saying I’m some a Pulitzer winning (yet) crime reporter or urban planning changer of life, shouldn’t your editor have your back? Don’t these people watch The Wire?
I’m on fire today, I really am. i will not hold my tongue if the CEO comes and talks to me about it. I think it’s bullshit. Total bullshit. It’s NOT OFFENSIVE. What pissed me off more than the request from HIM for removal is the fact that those smiling bitches in the photo were laughing with me about said passed party food. We all said that we are fans of said food. So then why, NOT EVEN TO ME, NOT EVEN IN A QUICK EMAIL, would one of those mindless turds ask to have the caption removed? What is wrong with people? Am I back at a huge corporation where every word is controlled by some blue pantsuit wearing freak with burnt orange hair, arms flailing, controlling too big for her britches bitch?? Or am I in a smaller, creative company where I was ASKED TO WRITE THIS COLUMN BECAUSE OF MY GOOFY WRITING STYLE.
You can see from all my caps I’m upset. It’s insulting and honestly, embarrassing.
You bet I’ll remove the caption. But I won’t do it quietly, and I WILL replace it with something else. And I will find that stupid bitch and I will tell her she’s a stupid bitch.
Ouch. Sucky. Editors should stand up for common sense…but nobody wants to risk even slightly offending anyone, which is why we all get vanilla. All the time.
Do you need releases from these people you photograph? I realize it’s a public place, but the shots are being used in a commercial publication.
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No releases, no bs, it’s a blog about parties…chill the hell out CEO and editor get your head out of your ass and stand up for what is right…wiener
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Sounds like bologna to me.
I think Oscar Mayer would take offense at the offense. It’s a product name for gosh sakes. That’s like saying that Kleenex is a dirty word.
Silly.
If I were “Frank,” I’d be offended .. I mean, maybe Frank doesn’t even like cocktails. Why’s he gotta be offended with a word like that next to his name. He doesn’t have a “tail.”
Sounds like that person has some penis issues. I mean, who isn’t referring to a hotdog when they say wiener nowadays?
I don’t understand how some people live in this world when such a little thing as a tiny caption on a website would cause them to “escalate” the issue and get it ripped down. Sigh.
Unless you referred to the party food as cocksuckers or something, they need to get over it.
Christ - am I not allowed to call my dogs weiner dogs for fear of offending someone?
Kim, you’re an offensive turd! You must now refer to them as cylindrical replicas of mysteriously congealed pork products with legs in canine form.
Weiner??? Really??? That’s stupid. Really, if she has a problem with it, that’s HER PROBLEM. Goodness sakes, not everyone thinks it’s something perverted or whatever’s on her mind. Really. Good grief.
Hahah, love Kims comment
Vent it out girl and give them what for.
I heard this is what it’s like in print though…one of the local reporters was complaining about that a few days ago. Someone phoned and complained about using a completely normal word in his title because they found it offensive. It was something dumb too. Sucky.
“Am I back at a huge corporation where every word is controlled by some blue pantsuit wearing freak with burnt orange hair, arms flailing, controlling too big for her britches bitch??”
OMFG - you made my f’in day with that
it felt delicious to write that