In recent weeks, we've all seen some pretty terrible, poorly-written, stereotypical, hateful, and downright rude articles coming from people at Odyssey. I'm here to tell you one thing, and that thing is that the Odyssey community is GOOD.

Odyssey is, obviously, meant for people to write their opinions, funny articles about whatever, share their stories and generally just to get their writing out there. Most people, including myself, write for fun. And no, we do not get paid every time you share our articles, for the record.

Odyssey is a community FILLED with brilliant, well-educated, nice writers. ONE writer who is abusing the power that Odyssey is giving her shouldn't change your opinion on the Odyssey. I and a lot of my friends write for this community, and we love it. We don't write hateful articles towards other people just to get attention. We don't write articles to "start a conversation". Because that is EXACTLY what this particular writer is doing. (Need proof? I'll show you). We, along with most if not all other Odyssey writers, write because we enjoy it.

It truly saddens me that someone who was given the power to share ideas and creativity in this great way is using it in such a shameful, horrible way. Odyssey was never created in order to attack people for honestly just living their lives. People make choices. They went to an SEC school, they joined Greek life, they are athletes, and that is FINE. That is what they chose. And it is never and WILL NEVER BE appropriate to attack people for their personal choices. It also is not appropriate to write an article attacking people while also saying why you are so much better than them because you're different. Here is a HUGE hint: You are not better than anyone else because you're different. You are not above everyone else because you don't like Greek life, don't like college football, or literally whatever the hell else you don't like that is considered mainstream. Let people live their lives and stop attacking them for liking or doing things.

With all of this being said, I hope everyone reading this chooses to continue reading and sharing other articles from other writers here at Odyssey. We genuinely enjoy writing and getting feedback from everyone that reads our articles. The rest of us are good, positive writers that want to be able to continue sharing our content with our community in a positive, respectful way.