Re: Sunday's Dilbert

[RoseCrowe <ncrowe -at- PRIMENET -dot- COM>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 1995, Johnson, Mike C. @ SLG wrote:

> Sunday's paper here in Salt Lake City carried a Scott Adams cartoon about
> tech writing.  In a nut shell, a lady writer blows up at an engineer for not
> reviewing her stuff.  The engineer relents, reads the stuff, and then says,
> "These pages are blank!  You've been bluffing for months!"   To which the
> humiliated writer replies, "I think I'll go have a yummy compost salad with
> delicious fetid cheese."

> I didn't like the cartoon for four reasons:

> 1.  It wasn't even mildly funny.

Ok, I see this part; although that's pretty subjective.  I didn't
find you *description* funny, I don't know how I'd feel about
the cartoon.


> 2.  It maligns women.  (My fuse is rather short on this one: I have four
> daughters)

In what way?  I don't get that from your description.  You
mean it maligns women by implying one could be a techwriter :-) ?


> 3.  It maligns tech writers.

It sounds like it maligns tech writers no more than it generally
maligns engineers, management, and any other worker in a DP shop...
Actually the only folks he doesn't malign are animals.... It's
probably a good sign that he's starting to malign us!  We've
arrived!

> 4.  I paid good money to get insulted.

And just think, I can go to work and get *paid* to be
insulted... :-)

Rosie (NorthCrowe)
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