Posted on 09/08/2015 10:52:05 AM PDT by JoeProBono
MANHATTAN, Kan., - Kansas State University apologized for a marching band routine that some complained looked like male genitalia assaulting the University of Kansas mascot.
University officials said the formation during halftime of Saturday's season opener against South Dakota was supposed to depict the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek engaged in battle with the University of Kansas Jayhawk, but some social media users complained the Enterprise shape looked more like a set of male genitals.
"We apologize for anyone offended by our halftime performance depicting the starship enterprise and the Jayhawk mascot," a message on the marching band's official Twitter account reads.
Kansas State president Kirk Shultz tweeted he was "sorry if anyone was offended by the performance at half-time."
Frank Tracz, the school's marching band director, posted a chart online showing how the formation was supposed to look.
"The chart below represents the drill from tonight’s show. There was absolutely no intent to display anything other...
Paging Doctor Freud.
(Seriously, people?)
some times a cigar, is just a cigar.
We have become a silly country, society, and culture.
Bad things happen to silly countries.
The complainers are idiots. I saw the Enterprise right away.
Honoring our 42nd President from the state (almost) next door!
I don’t see the hoopla.
Seriously, I didn’t see anything obviously phallic about that either.
People will see what they want to see.
Stupid people will see stupid things.
A phallus is a strange thing to apologize for. It is what it is.
Some people must have nothing better to do than be offended.
What, no photon torpedoes?
It’s the mascot trying to munch on the Enterprise primary hull. Now if it was of the nacelles backing into its mouth...
If it was in the shape of a vulva, it would be celebrated, because, don’t you know it is an asset to represent the female and women and a detriment to be male and any representation of maleness is offensive. So knock down towers, skyscrapers, lighthouses and the Washington Monument.
But if this was a gay pride event, they would be shoving their wangs in our faces.
Along with a couple of political factions.
Nope. Just can’t see it.
From the 70’s animated TV movie, The Point: “You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear.”
The so called “complainers” deserve to be outed as morons.
Huh? Somebody really needs to get his/her mind out of the gutter! A phallus? Come on...
Actually, I thought it looked the other way around.
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