Posted on 04/26/2013 12:27:53 PM PDT by drewh
The new logo for the University of Connecticut’s sports teams is a terrifying husky dog that calls to mind images of sexual assault, says one student.
The new logo was unveiled last week, receiving mixed-to-negative reviews from UConn fans who preferred the older, cuter husky dog.
But one student went much further, criticizing the new, meaner logo for being a pro-rape symbol.
Ads by GoogleIn an open letter to UC President Susan Herbst, self-described feminist student Carolyn Luby wrote that the redesigned team logo will intimidate women and empower rape culture.
UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma said the logo “is looking right through you and saying, ‘Do not mess with me.’ This is a streamlined, fighting dog, and I cannot wait for it to be on our uniforms and court.”
In response, Luby wrote, “What terrifies me about the admiration of such traits is that I know what it feels like to have a real life Husky look straight through you and to feel powerless, and to wonder if even the administration cannot ‘mess with them.’ And I know I am not alone.”
There were two sexual assaults at UConn involving athletes in the past year, Luby claimed.
The logo and the teams it represents are menacing to women, she wrote.
Ads by Google“The face of real life UConn athletics is certainly capable of frightening college women,” wrote Luby.
Herbst did not respond to requests for comment
The mascot of the University of Minnesota, Goldie Gopher, was changed in the mid-’80s. Basketball team members were involved in rape allegations and the scary macho Gopher was changed to a goofier, “harmless” one.
Yeah, at three o'clock high!!
Your comment reminds me of attending one of my son's football games. My better half and I were taking photos and videos on both sides of the field and on both ends of the field. As I walked outside the end field I got in position to snap some shots facing our team. The fierceness these boys showed toward their opponents was stunning. Something I would not have seen just snapping pictures on the side lines.
Mascots are part of the fight. To take that away I believe is a planned effort to turn us all into sissies. We don't need more cowards.
She got “doglegged” by a rat dog once...
Oh, you’re going to love this.....
So...
Not...
Right...
(Bowie)
FWIW, this school is so full of NCAA scandals and obscene payments to school officials for salaries and severance packages, housing and endless spending on campus capital improvement projects that it's beginning to make the *Big Dig* in Boston, child's play. I stopped caring about UCONN a long time ago.
Ha! My big sis had one of those leg molesters once. Dog was a little perv.
And their Cheer can be “UCONN... Go Nuts”... , eh?
I hate those... “things”!
Mascots are part of the fight. To take that away I believe is a planned effort to turn us all into sissies.
Now that is great mascot.
I invite the beotch to transfer to Smith
I'm probably the *only* person in Connecticut not a rabid UCONN fan. "f e'm.
Nah, she is just playing the record backwards and hearing what she wants.
She’s apparently a dog-hating lesbo; ignore her!
Are you kidding?
This is what happens when you vow to send every woman to college.
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