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Dear CNN,
I have read your article on “raging” and “hooking up,” and I have some questions and general comments for you. Per an assignment from my editor, I was told to quote the article’s most outrageous statements. I ended up using about 80 percent of it.
Almost every weekend, there is a tradition called raging at Vanderbilt University
What is a “tradition”? I see “raging” — or, as we like to call it at my institution of much higher learning than Vandy, “causally blacking out” — as more of a hobby. Can traditions happen on most days that end in y?
In Kelly Clarkson’s song “I Don’t Hook Up,” [Ed. note: sic] she addresses the dominant hook-up culture: “I do not hook up, up I go slow, so if you want me I don’t come cheap.
Way to cite the biggest cock block of a song ever. Very original.
The term “hook up” is ambiguous, usually defined as a no-commitment, physical encounter with a stranger or acquaintance. Hooking up can range from just a make-out session all the way to sex. Other lingo for the no-commitment sexual encounters are “booty calls” or “friends with benefits.”
I like your use of quotes, although I believe you cannot actually group “booty calls” with “friends with benefits” with general “hook ups”. Totally different. You don’t need to be friends with a booty call — but you need to know their name, which is totally not the case with a hook up. Way to do the “research.”
Boyle explained the warm weather compels some students to engage in “day fratting,” imbibing for hours in the front yard of a fraternity. Day fratting can result in “afternoon delight,” noncommittal physical activity between two people that can include casual sex.
Warm weather? Day Fratting? Afternoon Delight? Noncommittal physical activity? Casual Sex? Sounds like my kind of weekend.
“I’m respecting myself,” Boyle said confidently one sunny morning before class. “And I won’t waste my time with some guy who doesn’t care about me.”
Girls who respect themselves? Is this made up, CNN? Totally not inviting this broad to my party.
Respectfully yours,
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