IMPORTANT: easily offended people are offended

[fatbuckRTO]

The highly offensive letter:

From: IEEE Spectrum Tech Alert <techalert@ieee.org>
To: fatbuckRTO@fatbuckRTOs-email.noneofyourbusiness.com
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:30 PM
Subject: IMPORTANT: A Letter From IEEE Spectrum Editor in Chief Susan Hassler About Today's Tech Alert


Dear Members and Readers,
Please accept our sincere apologies for the headline in today's Tech Alert: "With the Arduino, Now Even Your Mom Can Program." The actual title of the article is "The Making of Arduino."
I'm an IEEE member, and a mom, and the headline was inexcusable, a lazy, sexist cliché that should have never seen the light of day. Today we are instituting an additional headline review process that will apply to all future Tech Alerts so that such insipid and offensive headlines never find their way into your in-box.
Spectrum's insistence on editorial excellence applies to all its products, including e-mail alerts. Thank you for bringing this error to our attention. If you have any additional comments or recommendations, do not hesitate to contact me or other members of the editorial staff.

Sincerely yours,

Susan Hassler
Editor in Chief
IEEE Spectrum
s.hassler@ieee.org



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My even-more offensive response:

Ms. Hassler,

I'm sorry you felt the need to apologize for that headline. Actually, I'm a little more offended that the title of the article is being changed and that apparently IEEE Spectrum will endeavor to sanitize all traces of humor from future article headlines. If my mom could work her email, I'd forward this to her so that she too could be offended.

It sure seems to be the popular fad lately.

Sincerely,
fatbuckRTO

I hesitated to even bother with a reply but for two things:
a) I had just read a poorly written "article" about some college students* protesting Halloween costumes because they're "offensive," and
2) She forced me to delete a worthless email, which highly offended me, so I'm returning the favor.


*http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blog...164139148.html