On how the United Way has offended my delicate sensibilities
A couple of years ago there was a big United Way campaign at my office and in Boston. The posters and the general theme was "Put yourself in the way." There were all of these posters that would have two words side-by-side with a person standing between them. So it would be like "TEENAGERS[person]PREGNANCY" and then underneath in really small writing it said "[person] put herself between teenagers and pregnancy" or something like that.
This year the posters look exactly the same. Except that the words are different. There's one that says something like "WOMEN[person]HOPE." This shocked me for a minute because why would that woman want to put herself between women and hope? What a crappy thing for her to do! That BITCH! I and all my women-friends were getting ready to be hopeful about something but now we can't because of that WOMAN!
Well, I read the fine print and it says "[person] became the bridge between women and hope." Excuse me, United Way? You can't use the exact same picture and visual construct and then expect it to mean the exact opposite thing it meant that last time you used it. That is ridiculous and also it offends my delicate sensibilities.
A couple of years ago there was a big United Way campaign at my office and in Boston. The posters and the general theme was "Put yourself in the way." There were all of these posters that would have two words side-by-side with a person standing between them. So it would be like "TEENAGERS[person]PREGNANCY" and then underneath in really small writing it said "[person] put herself between teenagers and pregnancy" or something like that.
This year the posters look exactly the same. Except that the words are different. There's one that says something like "WOMEN[person]HOPE." This shocked me for a minute because why would that woman want to put herself between women and hope? What a crappy thing for her to do! That BITCH! I and all my women-friends were getting ready to be hopeful about something but now we can't because of that WOMAN!
Well, I read the fine print and it says "[person] became the bridge between women and hope." Excuse me, United Way? You can't use the exact same picture and visual construct and then expect it to mean the exact opposite thing it meant that last time you used it. That is ridiculous and also it offends my delicate sensibilities.

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