Posted on 03/29/2005 9:20:41 AM PST by FlyLow
In what he called "a landmark deal" with female faculty members, Harvard University president Lawrence Summers agreed today to wear a dress through the end of the 2005-6 academic year.
The embattled Harvard president, who created a ruckus when he seemed to question women's ability in the fields of math and science, said that he hoped wearing a dress would demonstrate that he was "trying to be more empathetic" to women's concerns.
Dressed in a stylish Chloe dress and looking somewhat unsteady in his Manolo Blahnik slingbacks, Mr. Summers appeared at a press conference looking very much like a man eager to put the recent brouhaha behind him.
After a journalist at today's press conference accused the Harvard president of caving in to pressure, Mr. Summers replied, "You wouldn't accuse me of being weak if I were a man."
But the so-called "Tootsie deal" is receiving mixed reviews from some at Harvard, such as classics professor Croughton Davies, who today said that forcing Mr. Summers to wear a dress for a year "blurs the line between disciplinary action and fraternity hazing."
"I'm not sure if being president of Harvard is worth a tinker's dam if it means vamping around Harvard Yard like some sort of Ivy League tranny," Professor Davies said. "Larry Summers wasn't a bad-looking man, but he is one absolutely hideous woman."
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Anymore I feel like I am living in the twilight zone.
This just keeps getting more and more bizarre, next they'll be telling him to have a sex change.
More good satire from Borowitz. Thanks.
I'm quite sure this is satire.
Humor, you know, satire. Haha and all that. Funny. Not serious. Laugh....
This is the Harvard that produces fodder for our braintrusts? God, continue to save us from ourselves. please!!
That must be an April Fools article that got published too early by mistake.
Yes, but can he make coffee?
Oh c'mon folks! I'm sure his boyfriend will really get off on it.
Ok got it, lol!! BUT, it wouldn't surprise me if those feminazi's did force him to wear a dress!!
Coffee and filing....
One more reason why lowlife, subhuman, progressive-liberal-demokkkRAT-commie-nazi garbage should be in any positions of power, anywhere.
Given the way he cowed to the feminists, I would imagine this is attire of choice. ;)
Is this satire? Yikes, I need more coffee...
he should be barefoot and pregnant, too.
A guy at Harvard wearing a dress? Is this so the female faculty can see what a dress looks like?
They'd probably want hinm to wear a polyester pantsuit with sensible lesbian shoes and butch haircut. In other words, he should dress like a male university administrator in Birkenstocks....
I hope it is satire. I think I need some more coffee, too.
It's satire, although it wouldn't surprise me to find out he's been wearing a dress around the house for years.
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