Hey guys,
my name is neel shah—i'm a writer in NYC. I'm involved in some contest for Glamour Magazine write [sic] now, and sort of need some assistance from you guys. Essentially, Glamour is trying to find their next male dating columnist, and they've pitted three guys against each other (me and two others). It's hard enough getting white people to vote for a brown person in this thing, so i figured i'd try to galvanize the brown voting community as well. You guys actually wrote about me once (I used to work for Gawker), so i was hoping this might fit with your blog, too. Anyway, I hate asking for stuff like this, but i figured it was worth a shot. It's always been my goal to dispense love advice to white women in the midwest. sort of.

That's the email our former Intern Neel sent to South Asian-themed blog Sepia Mutiny. We support him in his vote-garnering efforts, but we have to second the site's questioning of his logic: "So this 'white people reluctant to vote for a brown' angle... yeah, not so much. This poll is for a relationship advice column, not the presidency."

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