“This New Game” which is a graphic description of teen girls playing a destructive “game” where scratching to bleeding as a distraction while stating the alphabet and then goes into talking about cutting.  One would think this is for other younger teens, but to me that would almost be an advertisement to join in “the game” at school. Rather I believe this essay is for educated people wanting to expand there cookie cutter lives.

I believe this essay would interest an educated woman, late teens to early 30′s who wants to expand her knowledge about the world around her.  Even though she may have had these thought about herself, she never acted on them, but she would still want to know. She may be a mother, but not a requirement.  She does do rather well in school and may have graduated with honors with no help from other.  She achieved more then most. Happier then most people around her. She is one of those you would swear has their own personal stash of coke stuffed in her pompom handle, but no. She has pushed to be happy even beyond what she feels, thinks and wants to express. She wants to cut; but rather then doing, she will read and imagine with her eyes closed, listening to the young girl tell her the reasons, feeling some connection to the descriptions. She may have her own razor blade set aside, tape on the blade so it won’t go to deep to kill, but sitting there listening, but knowing that it would leave a mark on her perfectly bronzed skin that she has spend hours is horrible uncomfortable tanning beds for. Leave a mark on her perfectly bronzed and tone skin, the muscles in which she has spent in the gym torturing herself so she looks smashing in her two-piece swimsuit. She could never leave a mark, even though she may want.

I believe this woman, who’s life that we envy over is the one listening to this essay.

A picture of a flag day burning ceremony.

“The ads, commissioned by a magazine called Blank which targets upper class readers, pretended to highlight “the prejudices faced on a daily basis by those who are different because they dare to or because they are provocative” – At least according to the magazine.
 Each featured a different person hanging from a wooden cross with a one-word label above them (including “faggot” as pictured above as well as “anorexic,” “delinquent,” “drug-addict,” “whore” and “violent aggresor“).  Obviously the magazine was probably more interested in being provocative than truly standing against discrimination. In any case if their goal was to attract attention, they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.” Friday, March 23, 2007 http://blabbeando.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html

The idea first started with a Klan member, with close to the same wording.  Then it involved into something with more of a meaning then just a scare tactic to it (but I liked the harshness to it, but Susan said that the picture didn’t have any meaning other then to scare and that the picture could be changed out for an Persian), though this does have some of that flavor with it. Susan was helpful with steering the way in which to go and some of the aesthetics of the page.  Then the idea of having the lettering not being white but a very pale shade of blue to get some of the American feel to the piece in a not so obvious fashion, but the translation did have the look was going for, just looked muddy.  Next came the logo that we had to have but i took the picture and decreased the saturation but went and highlighted the lettering to make them “pop” and I also took the basic vote and turned it to something that would catch the eye for a distance away.