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University Of Wyoming Profs: ‘Cowboy’ Slogan Promotes ‘White Heterosexual’ Masculinity
Breitbart ^ | 7-11-2018 | Tom Ciccotta

Posted on 07/11/2018 7:46:13 AM PDT by blam

Professors at the University of Wyoming say the school’s new cowboy slogan promotes “white heterosexual” masculinity. Expanding upon the University of Wyoming’s Cowboy mascot, the school recently adopted a new slogan — “The World Needs More Cowboys.” But some professors are up in arms over the choice, claiming that it promotes “white heterosexual” masculinity.

Christine Porter, associate professor of kinesiology and health at the university, is leading the charge against the new slogan.

“The history of cowboys, of course, is much more diverse than that racially, and presumably also for sexual orientation,” Porter said in a comment. “But the image — what the word ‘cowboy’ means off the top of almost everybody’s head in the U.S. — is the white, heterosexual male.”

Porter explained that she thinks the slogan might potentially ostracize students who aren’t white and male. “I care most about our university having a slogan that makes all people feel welcome here,” Porter added. “I also care about us not embarrassing ourselves as an institution across the nation. However proud this state is of our cowboy tradition, it just does not translate outside the Rocky Mountain West.”

Chad Baldwin, the school’s communications director, says that the criticisms of the new slogan will not stop its full adoption. “The criticism of the slogan as being sexist, racist, and offensive simply does not hold water in the context of the overall campaign,” Baldwin said. “‘Cowboys’ is the university’s official mascot and nickname, and the upcoming campaign casts it in a way that we have demonstrated is effective in catching the attention of prospective students from outside Wyoming.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: cowboys; feminazis; highereducation; leftismoncampus; radicalleft; whitepeople; wyoming
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To: blam

Poor Christine is just angry because NO REAL COWBOY will pay any attention to her. REAL women love REAL MEN and COWBOYS.


81 posted on 07/11/2018 12:56:35 PM PDT by tillacum (I'm still a Deplorable and I COLLUDED during the election SO THE DONALD could WIN! I voted.)
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To: blam

Obviously dealing a killing blow to ‘Farmers only dot com’.


82 posted on 07/11/2018 1:01:09 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: blam

The majority were white, heterosexual males.

Communists hate factual history.


83 posted on 07/11/2018 4:52:48 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: blam

Pssst lady...do you know that cowboys are not only white, but Hispanic, Asian, Native American, Pacific Islanders and Blacks? I think you need a history lesson about the history of cowboys which was started by the Spanish explorers.


84 posted on 07/11/2018 8:02:19 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: madison10
There are black cowboys.

See my home page...

85 posted on 07/11/2018 10:05:26 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: 3boysdad

Taylor Haynes sounds like an interesting guy. I think I’ll watch him and see how he does.


86 posted on 07/12/2018 7:39:20 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: blam

Persons of bovine?


87 posted on 07/12/2018 11:08:12 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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