As I browsed some of the articles on this site trying to find one to write this blog about, I came across this one, with an opening paragraph that immediately piqued my interest. The obvious sarcasm mixed with humorous rhetorical questions, and the repeated analogy of a fourteen year old girl reveal the authors feigned frustration at people committing suicide.
Maddox is obviously not pro-suicide and is using his usual medium, an eloquent blend of hate and condescension, to satirize the idiotic reasons some people choose to end their lives over. The opening paragraph of this article does a good job of engaging the reader, using a fair amount of humor and the usual bad-mouthing, while offering some hint of credibility with the “mortal coil” Hamlet reference. The first paragraph offers most of the actual content in the article, the vast majority of it is merely gruesome depictions of uncanny suicide techniques, each offering a small insight into the author’s opinion of those who commit suicide. The author constantly belittles the people he is giving “advice” to saying things like “you have no friends,” and “eat shit,” revealing his negative opinion of people who try to kill themselves.
A brief glimpse of humanity can be detected when he describes the fourteen year old girl. “You can't go on because you're the only person who has ever been dumped,” points out the stupidity of suicide while at the same time bringing the person a bit of normalcy, almost to the point of consolation.
Overall I thought the article was great. I can’t believe that I had never seen this site before. It offers opinions in a humorous way, similar to The Onion, but with a large amount of vulgarity, making it seem pure and untainted by any bias aside for the author’s own judgments.
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