In my cover story last week on Seattle’s frat boy stigma, I

Published 7:00 am Wednesday, March 21, 2007

In my cover story last week on Seattle’s frat boy stigma, I concluded with the following passage: “I’ll grant you that of all the oppressed groups in society, ex-frat guys should be low men on the totem pole. But like cheerleaders, gays, urban Republicans, white-collar defense lawyers, and Air Supply fans, we deserve to be out, proud, and freed from the shackles of prejudice, once and for all.”I realized all too late that I should have included public relations professionals in between white-collar defense lawyers and Air Supply fans on this list of much-maligned groups of individuals. Journalists love to slag p.r. flaks as annoying, insignificant, glorified chaperones. Is this characterization true some of the time? Sure. Is it true most of the time? Absolutely not. P.R. flaks of Seattle, this keg’s for you, too.