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To: hunter112

"We put down women who use up educational resources (supplied at least in part by taxpayers) to go husband shopping"

We? Do you have a mouse in your pocket? I don't have any objection to women pursuing their MRS degree.

"I suppose that some sleazy lawyer will even use the advertising in the defense of some campus date rapist."

huh? I can't imagine any judge with even a nodding familiarity with the rules of evidence would ever admit such a thing into the record.

"I'm not too sympathetic to feminists, but isn't there some common ground between liberals and conservatives that using sexuality to sell something that is totally unrelated cheapens us all?"

Sexuality? C'mon, the card shows a guy talking to girls, fergoodnessakes! If you think that's scandalous and sexual, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. I just think it's much ado about nothing.


19 posted on 12/14/2004 3:45:08 PM PST by Luddite Patent Counsel ("Evil is just plain bad")
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel
We? Do you have a mouse in your pocket? I don't have any objection to women pursuing their MRS degree.

Excuse me, I didn't realize there were still conservatives in the 21st Century that feel it's OK to pick taxpayer pockets to set up social institutions for the dateless. OK by me if you feel that way. Just don't expect the fiscal conservatives around here to necessarily join you.

Sexuality? C'mon, the card shows a guy talking to girls, fergoodnessakes! If you think that's scandalous and sexual, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

The implication from the photo and the wording on the card is that "our school is a great place to pick up a lotta chicks." As a male, I feel insulted that my gender is being marketed to this way, and I can understand that they ladies don't appreciate being used in that fashion, either.

It's not a great crime, but they should expect to receive some criticism over it. Hopefully, the market will decide, and it will just look like another tawdry advertisement to prospective students. It might even cause some women to find another place to enroll, lest they constantly hit on by men looking for "what the advertising promised".

It's like what I told my ex-wife after getting in a parking lot argument with someone over something trivial, "Don't let your mouth write a check that my body has to cash." This college should not be promising its coeds as a harem to lonely guys who should be shopping for a quality education.

21 posted on 12/14/2004 4:02:01 PM PST by hunter112 (Total victory, both in the USA and the Middle East!)
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