Prof says pink locker room is sexist

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[bikepacker67]

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- An associate law professor at the University of Iowa wants school officials to repaint the all-pink men's visitor's locker room at Kinnick Stadium.

Jill Gaulding says the color scheme sends a misogynistic message and represents "a serious obstacle to gender equity on campus."

Former football coach Hayden Fry had the visitors' locker room painted pink in the early 1980s to get a psychological edge over other teams.

When the university finished new locker rooms this year as part of an $86.8-million renovation of Kinnick Stadium, the school found ways to make the visitor's side even more Barbie-esque, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The ceramic tiles in the shower room are pink. So are the bathroom sinks, the interior of the equipment room, and the open metal lockers that hold players' uniforms. The carpet is covered in delicate pink and gray flowers, the newspaper said.

Gaulding says the unconscious brain picks up on stereotypes; most people saw the pink locker room as a way to call rival teams "girls and sissies," which "reinforces sexism and homophobia."

[DustyMoment]

Oh, contraire, it is not misogynistic sexism - it is more Title IX.

Thank God for government!!!


/Sarcasm

[kpp_kpp]

...and bidets added in their place?

[kpp_kpp]

i have all boys and from the moment they started walking they knew the difference between the boys aisles and girls aisles in toys-r-us.

i would try and get them to go down the girls aisles and look at the stuff just as an experiment many times -- no luck.

[G Larry]

>which "reinforces sexism and homophobia."<

What's "homophobia"?
I've never heard of anybody being afraid of these perverts, just disgusted by their behavior.

Is "homodisgustus" a word?

[nuconvert]

represents "a serious obstacle to gender equity on campus."

LOL

[Adder]

"Gaulding says the unconscious brain picks up on stereotypes; most people saw the pink locker room as a way to call rival teams "girls and sissies,"

So What?

Tuck in your pink shirt and mince on out of here.....

[E Rocc]

It turns out she's from Cornell. Go figure.

Jill Gaulding.

-Eric

[Sgt_Schultze]

Homodisgustus is probably just a valid a word as is homophobia. Homopheliacs is the word which should probably be used for those bleeding hearts such as the professor.

[Fintan]

Jilly-poo.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

""It implies that girls are nondominant, therefore, lesser...."

Ummm, no it doesn't. FALSTY PREMISE ALERT! FALTY PREMISE ALERT!!!

[ChiefJayStrongbow]

Who lit the fuse on her tampon?

[Brooklyn Kid]

What does she think when sees a man wearing a pink shirt?

[pageonetoo]

Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons
by Alan Elsner

Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Copyright © 2004 by Alan Elsner


Chapter One: The Second Toughest Sheriff in America

"The liberal approach of coddling criminals didn't work and never will." President Ronald Reagan

Sheriff Gerald Hege liked to boast that he ran the toughest - and pinkest -- jail in America. It was definitely the pinkest but maybe only the second toughest. From his sleepy, small town base in Lexington, North Carolina, self-described Barbecue Capital of the World, Hege turned himself into a national TV personality by striving for the unofficial title of meanest, baddest, roughest, toughest sheriff in America. He was also possibly the only one to have his own theme song, "The Man in Black."

"All you bad guys had better leave town
Sheriff Hege's not fooling around
Your days of breaking the law are through
When the Man in Black comes after you
(Spoken) That's right. He's got that big stick.
Go 'head and make his day.

He sure loves the smell of handcuffs in the morning."
Hege was narrowly elected sheriff of Davidson County, a mainly rural area located in the middle of the state, in the big national Republican landslide of 1994. He quickly made a mark by painting the inside of the 300-bed county jail bright pink with blue pictures of weeping teddy bears on the walls to make inmates feel like sissies. It was the height of the "get tough on crime" movement sweeping the nation and Hege's testosterone-soaked image perfectly fit the moment. He wore a black, paramilitary-style uniform and was often photographed wielding a five-foot-long stick or a semi-automatic. He designed a new logo for the Sheriff's Department -- a spider's web with a big arachnid in its center -- and he had a giant silver spider painted on the hood of his personal squad car, a souped up, Nascar-style 1995 Chevy Impala with a Corvette engine...

[wolfcreek]

Pink should only be for little girls dresses and the human body, otherwise it's an ugly color.

[Jim Noble]

Pink locker room is sexist

Yes, it is.

So?

[Bear_Slayer]

[nralife]

Pink walls are noted to produce a soothing and calming affect. You would want the opposition calm and serene and not fired up about the big game. Some jails are painted pink inside to help control prisoners. That's all the color is about.

[Triggerhippie]

This "lawyer" needs to get around more. The reason they painted the lockerroom that way is not sexist. It does show, however, that she has an axe to grind about something.

http://www.colormatters.com/body_pink.html

Can pink make strong men weak? Do pink jail cells create a calming effect? Is it true that football locker rooms (the ones for the visiting/opposing teams) are painted a certain shade of pink to weaken the players?

Yes and no! Here are the facts and some opinions:
Research - Baker Miller Pink
(Courtesy of Color Voodoo Publications -Copyright 1999 - All rights reserved)

One of the most interesting examples of color effects is Baker-Miller Pink - a color that's close to the bubble gum pink background color of this web page ( R:255, G:145, B:175) . Also known as “drunk tank pink,” this color is used to calm violent prisoners in jails. Dr. Alexander Schauss, Ph.D., director of the American Institute for Biosocial Research in Tacoma Washington, was the first to report the suppression of angry, antagonistic, and anxiety ridden behavior among prisoners: “Even if a person tries to be angry or aggressive in the presence of pink, he can't. The heart muscles can’t race fast enough. It’s a tranquilizing color that saps your energy. Even the color-blind are tranquilized by pink rooms.” 1 In spite of these powerful effects, there is substantial evidence that these reactions are short term. Once the body returns to a state of equilibrium, a prisoner may regress to an even more agitated state.


1. Morton Walker, The Power of Color, (New York, Avery Publishing Group, 1991), pp. 50-52

[JEC]

Is this woman a left over hippie or a NOW dyke.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Pink walls are noted to produce a soothing and calming affect. You would want the opposition calm and serene and not fired up about the big game. Some jails are painted pink inside to help control prisoners. That's all the color is about.

Agreed. Did I say something to suggest that I didn't understand this? Or are you just tagging on to my post to make a general reply to the discussion?