feedback for CBS
Jul. 11th, 2013 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheA message for CBSnews.com:
Dear Ms. Castillo:
I recently came across your article "Study: Drunk men described as 'wasted' while women considered 'tipsy'" published July 11, 2013. I came upon the article in a neutral state of mind, but I grew disdainful when I came across the closing of the piece.
There, you state that binge drinking is linked "to health problems including alcohol poisoning, sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancy, heart diseases, liver disease, neurological damage, unintentional injuries like car crashes or falls, and intentional injuries like sexual assault or domestic violence." It is your word choice that alarmed & astonished me. Your turn of phrases--that of "unintentional" & "intentional" injuries--makes it seem that those who engage in these activities solicit such "intentional injuries" as sexual assault & domestic violence. Through sheer rhetoric, you imply that persons (and by persons, I mean women, as those were the focus of the main article as well as the fact that few men are sexually assaulted or domestically abused due to alcohol use or abuse) were complicit in their harm. This is entirely irresponsible, something that should have been obvious to you or to one of your editors.
I implore you to issue a correction to your article or, if that does not occur, that in the future no one ever uses the wording that you have used here to smear an entire gender for behavior in which both/all genders engage.
Sincerely,
Dear Ms. Castillo:
I recently came across your article "Study: Drunk men described as 'wasted' while women considered 'tipsy'" published July 11, 2013. I came upon the article in a neutral state of mind, but I grew disdainful when I came across the closing of the piece.
There, you state that binge drinking is linked "to health problems including alcohol poisoning, sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancy, heart diseases, liver disease, neurological damage, unintentional injuries like car crashes or falls, and intentional injuries like sexual assault or domestic violence." It is your word choice that alarmed & astonished me. Your turn of phrases--that of "unintentional" & "intentional" injuries--makes it seem that those who engage in these activities solicit such "intentional injuries" as sexual assault & domestic violence. Through sheer rhetoric, you imply that persons (and by persons, I mean women, as those were the focus of the main article as well as the fact that few men are sexually assaulted or domestically abused due to alcohol use or abuse) were complicit in their harm. This is entirely irresponsible, something that should have been obvious to you or to one of your editors.
I implore you to issue a correction to your article or, if that does not occur, that in the future no one ever uses the wording that you have used here to smear an entire gender for behavior in which both/all genders engage.
Sincerely,