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From the Phatom Observer: Mallick Misplaces Marbles While Masticating Misery


First, I…should take off my… pants and put… on a bathrobe.
I sure would like to have been working in Heather’s office this week. I can imagine this new employee coming in with doughnuts every day, all perky and dressed in outfits to top any office gossip conversations.
The second week might be different if this first(?) article for the Star represents her future contributions. “Why did they hire this middle-aged emo-writer?”, may be going through a few heads on Monday morning.
The personal focus of this piece is understandable; she wants to introduce herself to the readers. The logic though is quirky at best. She pouts that as a freelance author, she led a “warm bath” life, but was lonely, spending her time online shopping. Though not a blogger, she feels her online life exposed her to angry half-dressed men. Her low point occurs when she sees an old one-night-stand giving a press conference on the internet and her subsequent embarrassment. What? Given what she has devulged of her mental state, I think that she would have run out of the room if she had been there in person. To summarize her argument, she wants to work in an office setting alongside likeminded people who can protect her from the theoretical world filled with masochists out to kill her.
Now, in no way do I condone death threats, but I also have a big problem with how they are referenced in this article. Heather Mallick ascribes the hate mail she receives from men to the fact that she is a woman who writes, not because of what she writes:

http://www.heathermallick.ca/guardian.co.uk-columns/curses-canada.html
You can find more past columns on her website.

That said, it’s back to the laptop…

AlinEdm as The Obtuse Observer