Editor’s note: the 250 word limit was waived due to space availability.

Response to Kate Kosinski’s column

“I have never felt the fact a women, has the right to be taken seriously means another woman can’t choose to not take anything seriously.” Please don’t edit that, Technician, because I took it from yesterday’s paper verbatim [“Chill out about slutty costumes,” Oct. 31, Kate Kosinski]. Though it is not the most poorly composed sentence I have ever read in the Technician, I don’t understand how you, Kate Kosinski, or your editor can sleep at night when you have produced a sentence like this and allowed it to be printed and distributed. Typos? Improper comma usage? Sheer ambiguity? Wow.

On another note, I don’t disagree with your overall point, and I could care less about what girls wear on Halloween. My problem is with your argument and your continuous statements of what is supposedly right and wrong. In fact, Kate, “naturally modest” women DO have the right to complain about what others wear — have you heard of the Constitution? If you are offended by anything, you have every right to voice your opinion. It’s also ridiculous for you to assume, as you do, that everyone who has a problem with slutty costumes is “horribly uncomfortable with their own [body].” They might have moral or religious reasons, or they might just feel like women should stop objectifying themselves as sex toys to men. Whatever their reasoning, they have a clearly stated right to feel the way they do, and you can’t take that away from them with some poorly constructed, pointless garbage in an editorial section.

Of course, you also have the right to express your opinion. Please, just express that AS an opinion– not as an intrinsic fact. You have no more authority over this subject than anyone else in the world, and it is your duty as a pseudo-journalist to make that clear. If you don’t, you’re simply perpetuating the lack of substance that, all too often, is the Viewpoint section.

Anne TomasevichJunior, Textile Engineering