Let us now praise editors

So this started out more about editors than writers, and ended more about writers having confidence in themselves to allow editors to edit. That confidence is something I usaually lack quite a bit. Even when I am proud of a piece I don't even like my friends to read it, let alone someone who will possibly rip it apart.
As much as I might have enjoyed peer editing the last class, I still go through something very much like Kamiya described...the whole having my internal organs moved around, ya, thats about how it feels as you turn in a paper to be edited or even worse, graded, by a teacher or read by a peer.
No, all editors aren't the "bullies, ignoramuses or diggers" as described, some of them actually do provide insight, help, and encouragment along with their critisim. And I think that was the point Kamiya was trying to make, and did make. Writers do need to have more confidence in their work and be able to hand it off to an editor or peer to be looked over and checked. At the same time though, editors do need to have a check on themselves, need to make sure they dont try to become the power hungry, "I'm going to make this better" (and end up changing the meaning) fearful people, that they know they can be.
It is hard to look at both perspectives, as Kamiya said in the beginning, but I think having done both, writing and editing, he did pull a lot together about the two that are true for each. Something, I as a college student learning to do both of these tasks, should take into consideration when I write and edit.