Posted on 03/02/2005 12:25:49 PM PST by sitetest
After some students were offended by Jada Pinkett Smith’s comments at Saturday’s Cultural Rhythms show, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) and the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations have begun working together to increase sensitivity toward issues of sexuality at Harvard.
Students said that some of Pinkett Smith’s remarks concerning appropriate gender roles were specific to heterosexual relationships.
In a press release circulated yesterday by the BGLTSA—and developed in coordination with the Foundation—the BGLTSA called for an apology from the Foundation and encouraged future discussion of the issue.
According to the Foundation’s Student Advisory Committee (SAC) Co-Chair Yannis M. Paulus ’05, the two groups have already planned concrete ways to address the concerns that Pinkett Smith’s speech rose.
The BGLTSA release acknowledged that the Foundation was not responsible for Pinkett Smith’s comments. But the Foundation has pledged to “take responsibility to inform future speakers that they will be speaking to an audience diverse in race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender and class,” according to the release.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecrimson.com ...
what did she say?
what did she say?
This man's comment seems homo-sensitive and makes me uncomfortable. He should STFU.
Ping.
When you figure it out, let me know.
Pinkett Smith’s Remarks Debated
There’s a sentence I never imagined I would read.
“Our position is that the comments weren’t homophobic, but the content was specific to male-female relationships,” Woods sai
I will never understand why people think that they have a right to not be "uncomfortable".
Ping.
I agree. What a heterophobe!
"Students said that some of Pinkett Smith’s remarks concerning appropriate gender roles were specific to heterosexual relationships."
This was at Harvard? Money well-spent, Mom & Dad!
An It-Becomes-Ever-More-Difficult-To-Parody-The-Left BTTT.
Like, heteroNORMative! I'm, like, SEW upSET! Somebody get me my POPpers. HellOH-oh! A little amilnitrate here please?
(Okay, I don't know how to spell amilnitrate ... Anyway, I think "heteronormative" is about the funniest thing I've heard in a while. At least it's marginally better than the overdone "homophobic" .)
that comment made ME uncomfortable and you should STFU (sarc).....seee how this can get out of hand..? no offense CCG... just used you're witty and hilarious comment to further you're point....
Dear Sabatier,
It's too bad my parents couldn't afford to send me to Harvard.
Here I am, stuck in a heteronormative relationship....
I just didn't know any better.
sitetest
Don't these Harvard types have anything of substance to worry about? Larry Summers, and now this?
I guess the term "get a life" was invented for them.
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