Salar writes his 'Shirts' column today, almost one year to the day Mr. Dev Chatterji penned a column reporting

That was when I looked down at the well-knit Tommy Hilfigers and then at Allison and had an epiphany—women are a lot like shirts.

The 'Shirts' column is still, in my mind, one of the worst things a guy could ever write. All across campus, I imagine girls reading it and writing in 'Dev' on their 'People never to have sex with' list, then underlining it several times.

Nonetheless, Mr. Jahedi has outdone him.

So Ronnie's idea (he has sworn me to secrecy about this) is that the market for dating could be made much more efficient if we introduced B's (patent pending). If a girl happens to be in a committed relationship, then she should have the letter B stamped onto her forehead.

There's nothing wrong with a fair bit of Mysogny in an intended humor piece, so long as you follow a couple of rules. 1) The Mysogny doesn't require mutilation of women's bodies and B) It's funny. Both of these are broken repeatedly.

I began to see the depth of his argument. Because a girl's forehead is smaller, the B's could be made proportionally small and hence less expensive. And because of the way many women like to beautify, the B can be marketed on a grand scale.

Also

Because of this, the information gap is diminished, and everyone is again better off. This lets women know early in the relationship whether their guy is of a non commitment mentality while allowing guys to sleep happy knowing their girl is wearing a B for them.

So, to summarize, Salar has taken a rather gross idea, IE facial mutilation, assumed that because it's outrageous it must be hilarious, then BANGED THE CONCEPT INTO THE GROUND for the remainder of his 700 words. Argh! Bad!

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