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Discuss “Letter to the editor”

Last week’s Tartan board editorial “Materialism should not triumph over talent” unfairly criticized this year’s Lunar Gala and offered a skewed assessment of the production.

The article first claims that Lunar Gala portrayed women as sexually submissive in one of the fashion show’s many dance sequences. Whether that is in poor taste is a matter of interpretation; what the article did not mention is that in many other sections, men took on the submissive role. In Min-jee Hwang and Miriam Lee’s conJUNKtion, for instance, the final couple to tread the runway was a woman fiercely clad in black, lording over her heartsick suitor.

In fact, the front page of the Feb. 18 issue of The Tartan featured a full-color photo of a coquette leaning...

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