Posted on 12/04/2018 1:36:21 AM PST by reaganaut1
For many years, the Princeton Tigertones, an all-male a cappella group at Princeton University, has had a tradition while performing “Kiss the Girl,” a song written for the 1989 Disney animated classic “The Little Mermaid.”
The singers call up a woman from the audience to do some lighthearted dancing. Then they do the same with a male audience member. As the song concludes, the two audience members dance together — and end the number by smooching at the urging of the singers: The last line of the song is “Go on and kiss the girl!”
But last week, the president of the Tigertones, a senior named Wesley Brown, announced in a letter to The Daily Princetonian that the group would temporarily remove the song from its set list in response to complaints that it is misogynistic and violates the principle of consent. Brown apologized in the letter and said the group would try to rework the performance.
“Performances of this song have made participants uncomfortable and offended audience members,” which the group regrets, Brown wrote.
There have been other recent instances of artistic flare-ups on campuses. Last year, Brandeis University canceled a Michael Weller play about Lenny Bruce after students and faculty protested its depictions of minorities. Around the same time, the University of Connecticut’s student union axed an appearance by the comedian Owen Benjamin, who had made comments about transgender children and hormone replacement. And in October, Kent State University canceled a production of “West Side Story,” after students were upset by the lead roles not going to people of color.
Amid the #MeToo movement, many works of art are being reassessed for how they discuss power dynamics.
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If college students are so easily traumatized, that's a good argument for their taking online courses from home and saving themselves, their parents, and taxpayers a lot of money.
All forms of entertainment are suspended pending investigation. No more fun until further notice.
Heaven help us if/when we have to face some civil or world war or something. Everyone is scared of their own shadows.
I’m surprised they are nit worrying about:
1. SEXUAL HARRASSMENT
2. STDs .. DISEASE
Isn't that the truth. The beloved future of the all controlling Leftists - a grey world of sameness, except for the ruling elite.
I am offended at their decision. I prefer the song with the lyrics, “Go ahead, rape the girl.”
These are the smug little prigs who think the Victorians were repressed.
Wow! I had no idea. Well, we can add Lenny Bruce to the list of spinning in the grave alternative energy sources.
Who cares what these snowflakes do? Comedians won’t perform at colleges anymore because they’re so easily offended.
this repressive culture existed among the Left in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Politically correct leftists were rejected by the original punks of the early to mid-70s. Then punk became co-opted by agro leftists (as had rock and roll, which also was originally rejected and reviled by folkie and jazz hep lefties).
It’s the same cultural revolution they’ve waged for 50 years.
And their leaders were and are corrupt AF.
Free love isn’t free. The Weather Underground coerced compliant sex from male and female members. “smash monogamy” “smash the patriarchy”. If you say “no” you are “puritanical” and “uptight”.
Tell me which side is so uptight today?
The baby boomer radicals will all be dead inside of 25 years. But the cultural rot of Kate Millett, Bill Ayers, etc will continue to spread as cancer on the culture because it is institutionalized in academia along with the revisionist history of Communist Howard Zinn.
Do they have any Puerto Ricans in the Kent State theatre group?
This is why we are paying millions to send these ***holes to “college”. They need to establish their gender and become offended over children songs. Nothing like a blithering idiot with a PhD.
The answer to their being ridiculous is not our being worse.
Another small step in denouncing American culture - probably to please the bearded savages which keep pouring in here.
Either its music or the lyrics, I forget which, were written by a guy who later died of AIDS.
Meanwhile just 30 minutes away in Trenton, Governor Phil Murphy is covering up for a rapist on his team and Senator Spartacus could not be reached for comment.
Out of respect for today’s woke students, there should be a massive delete of all recorded history. Then the new enlightened youth can start from scratch and create their utopian society. It’ll be grand.
But last week, the president of the Tigertones, a purse-wielding senior named Wesley “Pusscake NancyBoy” Brown,
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