Dear Reader,
The world is stupid.
Your ex is stupid. Dog people are very stupid. Your ex was a dog person? Your ex is stupid. People should not value dogs before other people and you deserve better. Harambe memes are stupid, please stop posting them.
Maybe you are a frosh and you are a little uneasy. Starting new things is difficult and definitely stupid. Maybe you have just had the worst summer of your life. It shouldn’t have been and I’m sorry that it was; life is so unfair and so stupid. Maybe you have had the best, most European, greatest, happiest summer and you shared it with everyone on the stupid Internet and that is not only stupid, that is also very annoying and I did unfollow you.
Systemic sexism in the workplace is stuuuupid. Donald Trump is super stupid! White privilege and Islamophobia are stupid. Fuckbois, care packages, UTSU incompetence, career paths, areola crossword puzzles! Ohhhhh, they are all just so stupid as hell.
People are stupid and they do stupid things. This year, Stranded is a place for acknowledging that people—and all the stupid things they do—are so, unbelievably stupid, and doing something about it. It is for angry satire, passive aggressive poetry, lewd illustrations, straight up ranting, and all the other things that help you feel a little better about how stupid the world really is.
Welcome and thank you and, please, stop being so stupid.
Love,
Celeste Yim, Stranded Editor 2016/2017