And what about acronyms?!
Posted on 01/20/2012 6:09:21 AM PST by smokingfrog
Students in Utah may have voted to urge on their sports teams with the battle cry ‘Go Cougars!’
But the school district has overruled the popular choice because it claims it would be insensitive to women.
The students were asked what they wanted to be the mascot for the new Corner Canyon High School, which is scheduled to open in Draper, Utah, next year.
While cougars – the large mountain cats - are prevalent in Utah, the principal Mary Bailey worried people would also be reminded of the popular culture use of the word to describe sexually aggressive middle-aged women who attract younger men.
Some parents and patrons emailed and called board members, saying they were uncomfortable with the idea that their daughters on the drill team and as cheerleading squad would be called Cougars.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
lol
too funny
Oh brother.
That is dumb, to get rid of a perfectly good mascot because of some perversion of the language. It’s like saying all women want to prey on younger men, which has to be accepted as ok, so it is offensive to have a cougar for a mascot. Does anybody need a brain?
Pretty funny...
I wonder what their cheerleaders look like.
This is a perfect chance to point out my sig.
Why don’t we just ban words? We don’t want to run the risk of potentially offending someone, somewhere, with a given word. If we ban them all, no one could ever be offended - right?
Going into animal names was bound to cause a problem, because, as you can see, the animal is offended being compared to a predatory female human being.
Why not just go back to a name like the Fighting Redskins?
Well of course the ‘school district’ would want the named changed.
After all, where do most of the stories about ‘cougars’ come from?
Can’t have an ‘arrow’ pointing at the schools.. no sir..
Cougar = middle aged woman ?
I learn something new every day on FR.
That is sooooo ghey.
Pulled off another internet site:
“Thanks to the tireless efforts of Adam Joshua Smargon, a list of nearly all US college and university nicknames resides on a single web page. With a little programming magic, here is a ranking of the top 10 based on his list:
1. Eagles (58 institutions)
2. Tigers (45)
3. Bulldogs (39)
4. Cougars (32)
4. Wildcats (32)
6. Panthers (31)
7. Lions (30)
7. Pioneers (30)
7. Warriors (30)
10. Knights (26)”
Looks like 32 college presidents better get off their butts and start doing something about their athletic teams’ nickname, lest someone somewhere be offended.
so the other names for the species, like mountain lions or Pumas was also out....
how about panthers, cat-a-mount or the appalchin ‘painter’
Go Painters!
I wonder if Mary Bailey is a “cougar” and personally offended.
It looks like we have our own home-grown maniacs but instead of Islam, their cult is Political Correctness.
If “Cougar” is insensitive to women, what names would be off limits as insensitive to men?
“The Studs”?
“The Well Endowed Ones”?
“The Hunks”?
“The Milquetoasts”?
We need to start a campaign today to make sure these offensive names are never used as sports team monikers.
Not satire? Both the HS I went to and the one my children go to have the cougar mascot, and I never heard anyone thinking about changing either.
And what about acronyms?!
So I suppose switching it to Beavers is out of the question.
How stupid.
A gay man in a tutu is preferable and acceptable
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