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Joanne Lee
Straits Times Online Editor
I'm a DABA empathiser
April 02, 2009 Thursday, 03:05 PM
Joanne Lee laments that she's not a Date-A-Banker-Anonymous sympathiser.
A COLLEAGUE of mine shared a hilarious website with me yesterday: Dating A Banker Anonymous. It's a blog-style website which features stories sent in by women dating bankers who are obviously "suffering" in these tough economic times as their beaus get pay cuts or - horror of horrors - get laid off.
This is what the summary above says: "Are you or someone you love dating a banker? If so, we are here to support you through these difficult times. Dating A Banker Anonymous (DABA) is a safe place where women can come together – free from the scrutiny of feminists– and share their tearful tales of how the mortgage meltdown has affected their relationships. So if your monthly Bergdorf’s allowance has been halved and bottle service has all but disappeared from your life, lighten your heart with laughter and email your stories to dabagirls@gmail.com. Warning all stories sent will be infused with our own special brand of DABA Girl humor." How did it all start? Very much Gossip Girl-like. A few friends, dating FBFs (Finance Guy Boyfriends, the G is silent), shared their dating woes with their super-stressed out (and therefore super-negligent) boyfriends, and boom. An idea was formed. "Although we empathized with what they (the FBFs) were going through, it didn’t take the sting out of their actions. We felt our relationships were being victimized by the economy and there was nothing we could do to stop it. Not knowing what else to do, we did what enraged yet articulate people have done since the beginning of time. We started a blog." This picture and caption encapsulates it all: The Great Sample Sale Quagmire.
"Look! Over there! Marc Jacobs sample sale - I don't qualify to join the DABA, and I'm not even a DABIT (Dating A Banker In Training), but it's a fun read and takes the piss out of those with unrealistic expectations in these tough times. Suspend your disbelief, read it with a pinch of (truffle-infused sea) salt, and enjoy! Tags: culture, internet, recession 
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Hya Joanne.
Thank you for your explanation which I understand and appreciate.
You can appreciate why I was just a wee bit confused that when I earlier typed it to send to you,I got it blanked.
But now I know why, and I understand it.
I know too that you used the word in the context. No worries.
Meantime, awaiting some new and fresh blogs from you and company.....to read,debate and enjoy.
sharlynrj: I'm afraid our policy is to block potentially rude words as a blanket rule for all commenters since we exercise post-moderation and not all blog commenters will follow rules.
If it appears as double standards that the online editor can use certain words that commenters can't, I'm sorry but that's the problem with post-moderation. If we exercised pre-moderation instead, like many of the major news websites, a lot of comments posted thus far on this site would never have seen the light of day.
In any case, I used it as part of an accepted phrase and not as a curse word. Cheers!
Hello Joanne.
Simple question, then. And a serious one, too.
I aint a prude but I am wondering how the Online Editor got away with using the words "takes the ****.." in a family newspaper when we try to legitimately use the word p-o-r-n in a sentence but it gets ****blanked?
I typed ****..but got ****.
How did the Online Ed get it published.
But if I did this..."taking the p-i-s-s..it should go through..yes?
I believe this is worthy ofan answer , don't you?
Thank you.
By the way, I live in hope that the blogs do succeed.
Hi pimpmaster, thanks for the link. I agree it's good writing, but there's no way The Straits Times will be able to come out with guns blazing like that without having a defamation law suit smacked on us!
To all of you who think our blogs are inane or silly or rubbish, this is my reply: We're six months into the ST Blogs experiment. It's not easy to change the habits of journos who are used to writing in a certain style and to the slow print news cycle. Many do not know how to even go about writing a blog. (Even I don't know if my own efforts have been the right way to go about it yet.)
This, I believe, will change over time as more venture into the blogging space and learn from each other, other news blogs and from the comments they get. Sadly, when certain readers just dismiss each and every blog post as "wubbish" and get personal flaming the reporters, my colleagues are understandably reluctant to write more blog entries.
But I have high hopes for the straitstimes.com, and I believe things can only better as more embrace the Internet. I hope the readers stay with us as we try and try again to get the formula right!
Cheers
Joanne
Hi Joanne, I really like the ST blog section to become successful one day.
If this provides inspiration, here's an example of blog/news commentary that gets it -
http://kentridgecommon.com/?p=2200
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