La Voz,

I am writing to express my displeasure toward the recent article titled ‘La Voz not pimps in print.’

Mr. Hassan gets off to a poor start in his first sentence by implying that he is the arbitrator of what is good for others because ‘some people are just way too sexist for their own good.’

He also defended the ad in question by writing that it ‘did not have any negative, suggestive material that would offend some De Anza students.’

However he also said that he has addressed complaints, so the ad must have offended someone. Should he have defended the ad? By all means.

But that very fact shows that it is quite difficult to predict what people will find offensive. In a diverse community it is nearly impossible to please everyone.

Even Metro has its detractors. But Mr. Hassen wrote ”why don’t people gripe about the selling of women in a weekly periodical?’ How does he know that people don’t complain? Perhaps Metro is deciding that there are a great many more people who like the newspaper, who aren’t offended, and who will continue to support the advertisers than those who are offended and will complain.

Mr. Hassen is angry about one of the complaints that La Voz is, essentially, a pimp service. He should be – that statement is not warranted. However, he goes on to say that people who were offended should get a life.

Perhaps the problem is that he can’t reconcile the fact that the life they lead does not allow room for such “services” with his own, undoubtedly more liberal lifestyle.

He wonders how people can find the time to write about “pointless crap,” yet devotes an article to it!

Sure, he’ll say that what is pointless are the complaints about the ad, and he was, of course, writing about the closed-mindedness of the complainers, but, if their viewpoint is “crap” then so what?

Prove your point that it is worthless by ignoring it! Let the complainers vent a bit, then go on. As for the spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors in the piece, well, perhaps Mr. Hassen is simply missing a few neurons in his brain.

-John A. Gutierrez