The New York Times recently
published a piece by Alex Beggs titled "A Taste for
Cannibalism?" in its Style section. (Where else would you put it?) The
piece noted cannibalism’s growing relevance in pop culture and even pondered
whether cannibalism’s “time is now.”
You know how gruesome
the article was when Twitter users thought it beyond the pale, and
savaged the piece for apparently claiming there could be a "time and a place" for
cannibalism. Apparently, even many denizens of the Twitter-verse are not
comfortable with the seeming normalization of eating other humans’
flesh. Perhaps The Times should have
cannibalized the article.
The piece Beggs one to
question the paper’s “All the News That’s Fit to Print” motto. If that’s
fit to print…what isn’t?
It may henceforth behoove
us all to use caution before imploring anyone to “eat me!” And I am sure there
are those who will now modify other phrases, as well.
“Save a horse, eat
a cowboy!”
“Beefcake…it’s
what’s for dinner.”
“Eat, drink, and pee
Mary?”
The old “Gray Lady”
ain’t what she used to be.
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