Yale Freshman Class Council scraps "offensive" shirts (PC alert)

Yale Daily News ^ | 11/19/09 | Jordi Gasso

[reaganrevolutionin2010]

The Freshman Class Council has run into controversy with its T-shirts for The Game. The FCC has decided to change the design of its shirts after the original design, which was submitted by students and voted on by the freshman class, sparked outcry from members within the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

The original design, which won out over five other entries, displayed an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote in the front — “I think of all Harvard men as sissies” — in bold white letters. The back of the long-sleeved, navy blue T-shirt said “WE AGREE” in capital letters, with “The Game 2009” scrawled in script underneath it.

But the term ‘sissies’ is considered offensive and demeaning, and as well as a “thinly-veiled gay slur,” said Julio Perez-Torres, a member of the LGBT Co-op.

[robomatik]

"But the term ‘sissies’ is considered offensive and demeaning, and as well as a “thinly-veiled gay slur,”

poor SISSIES!

[samtheman]

Definitely all Yale administrators and Yale Freshmen Class Council members are sissies, that much is true.

[pnh102]

So call them pussies instead.

[eyeamok]

yeah, well i find the term “gay” to be OFFENSIVE, and I would appreciate it if you would start using less offensive and more descriptive terms to describe your personal activities like
SODOMITE instead of gay.

[Thrownatbirth]

"Those guys are fags!"

[AmericanInTokyo]

Call them “queers”. That’s an acceptable definition of homosexuals these days, made acceptable by homosexuals themselves. They have Queer Studies, Queer Electives, Professor of Queer Identity Issues, Queer Week. So, just use that one, works with me.

[grobdriver]

The FCC has decided to change the design of its shirts after the original design, which was submitted by students and voted on by the freshman class, sparked outcry from members within the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

Who's the sissy, then?
These kids need to learn that the queers and weirdos among us wake up in the morning looking to be offended. They know they're perverted, and live life feeling guilty, as they should.

[real saxophonist]

Yale thing?

[doodad]

Fine. Poofter then in a Monty Python accent.

[BlackElk]

Ping for later

[Wyatt's Torch]

So call them pussies instead.

Exactly... but either NOW or PETA will be offended by that...

[Sudetenland]

Faggots is more proper, I believe. :)

[ilgipper]

Harvard has a chance now to show who the real sissies are...these Yalies who are afraid to print the t-shirt. Ha.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

F. Scott Fitzgerald called them sissies because had he called them faggots he would have had to have gone to re-education camp.

[KosmicKitty]

Boy, you’d think they called them faggots!

[BlessedBeGod]

And now it’s Yale who has proven that they are the sissies.

Maybe Harvard should wear the shirts.

[BenLurkin]

“I think of all Harvard men as sissies”

[BenLurkin]

“I think of all Harvard men as sissies”

[reaganrevolutionin2010]

LOL