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A reader was so moved by a promotional item a co-worker received for Hilary Swank courageous-white-lady- inspires-inner-city-kids drama Freedom Writers that she found her own writing voice, submitting this report about her disappointment with the shoddily constructed, pungent swag:

Someone at my office was sent this Freedom Writers promotional messenger bag today, and it was so unbelievably heinous I had to take a picture and send it in. It has all this fake graffiti on it, like a bunch of disaffected, inner city kids freedom-wrote all over it in PENCIL. "I don't trust anyone." "I hate the way this gun feels against my side" — shit like that. Shit that cries out "Thank you, Hilary Swank, for helping me get all of this off of my asthmatic, inner city-kid chest!" It's HORRIBLE! Plus, it stinks super badly, like it still smells like the creepy Chinese factory from whence it came. It came with a Freedom Writers-branded mini composition book inside and a few Freedom Writers pencils inside.

If it were possible to want to see that movie less than I already did, I now do.

Unfortunately for the theoretical Chinese sweatshop laborers who may have stitched together the bags, the uplifting scribblings are in English, depriving them of an opportunity to be empowered to sneak home those notebooks and pencils and get started on their own inspirational writing careers.