Dan Savage, syndicated sex columnist and editor of The Stranger, a uniquely corrected weekly in Seattle, has written a column where he expresses nothing but regret. Savage went back through his columns from 2004 and offers some hilarious regrets, though most have nothing to do with inaccuracy. Read it for yourself. Or sample some of his less savage regrets below:
- I regret not telling the obese guy who was only attracted to petite women to lose some weight.
- I regret three things about the column I wrote after George W. Bush won
the election on November 2. I regret writing it in a drunken stupor. I
regret uncritically accepting the "gay marriage cost Kerry the
election!" hysteria that was flying around the day after the election.
(That supposed fact, drawn from the same exit polls that showed John
Kerry winning in a landslide, has been thoroughly debunked.) Finally, I
regret not making it clearer to my straight readers why, for gays and
lesbians, contemplating or threatening a move to Canada after November
2 wasn’t and isn’t just sour grapes. - I regret boring my many readers in Canada with a lot of blah blah blah
about American politics. I tried to make it up to them by heaping
compliments on their sensible positions on God, ganja, and gays. But
some of my columns probably didn’t make for riveting reading up north.
Sorry about that, Canada, and I promise to bore my American readers
with at least one column about Canadian politics in 2005. - I regret suggesting that all goth girls are fat. There are many slim
goth girls out there, including one who sits in the cubicle right down
the hall from me. - I regret touching on the sensitive subject of the epidemic of GLH, or
"girl love handles," just before the craze for skin-tight, low-rise
jeans that put so much GLH on display passed into history. This
unfortunate fashion trend was still being debated in my column weeks
after the last teenage girl in North America had sent her last pair of
low-rise jeans off to Goodwill.
