Posted on 07/11/2018 7:46:13 AM PDT by blam
Professors at the University of Wyoming say the school’s new cowboy slogan promotes “white heterosexual” masculinity. Expanding upon the University of Wyoming’s Cowboy mascot, the school recently adopted a new slogan — “The World Needs More Cowboys.” But some professors are up in arms over the choice, claiming that it promotes “white heterosexual” masculinity.
Christine Porter, associate professor of kinesiology and health at the university, is leading the charge against the new slogan.
“The history of cowboys, of course, is much more diverse than that racially, and presumably also for sexual orientation,” Porter said in a comment. “But the image — what the word ‘cowboy’ means off the top of almost everybody’s head in the U.S. — is the white, heterosexual male.”
Porter explained that she thinks the slogan might potentially ostracize students who aren’t white and male. “I care most about our university having a slogan that makes all people feel welcome here,” Porter added. “I also care about us not embarrassing ourselves as an institution across the nation. However proud this state is of our cowboy tradition, it just does not translate outside the Rocky Mountain West.”
Chad Baldwin, the school’s communications director, says that the criticisms of the new slogan will not stop its full adoption. “The criticism of the slogan as being sexist, racist, and offensive simply does not hold water in the context of the overall campaign,” Baldwin said. “‘Cowboys’ is the university’s official mascot and nickname, and the upcoming campaign casts it in a way that we have demonstrated is effective in catching the attention of prospective students from outside Wyoming.”
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They weren’t cowboys, they were sheep herders.
Now the word "Cowboy" just means bad football.
In fact, cow-boy was considered a pejorative term, especially in the southwest, until the late 19th century.
Someone hasn't done their homework.
I didn’t see the film but I heard that the supposed cowboys in bareback mountain did something with sheep, not cows or horses
They weren’t cowboys
> Where is Randolph Scott when needed ??? <
The Statler Brothers wondered the same thing.
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Ridin’ the trail alone
Whatever happened to Gene and Tex
And Roy and Rex, the Durango Kid
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
His horse, plain as can be
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Has happened to the best of me.
Dirty deeds, done with sheep.
My image of cowboys changed. They are small, wiry and with dark complections.
In one sentence she destroys her credibility if anyone cares to pay attention to it: ““But the image — what the word ‘cowboy’ means off the top of almost everybody’s head in the U.S. — is the white, heterosexual male.””
Right there she states her bias blatantly, but glosses over it by stating “hey, everyone or at least almost everyone (the neanderthals that they are) thinks this way” She presumes to speak for the bulk of the population while overtly stating there is something wrong with normalization of normal behavior while championing the normalization of abhorrent behavior.
Arrogance mixed with stupidity - she’d make the perfect middle manager.
Sounds New Age to me.
A different time ... a much different time
See my post #29.
1/5th of all cowboys during the post Civil War period were estimated to be Black - and a good number more Latino.
Hey minorities, if you want to forget your own history - fine with me.
The claim is that being straight, being White, and being a man are bad things.
I don’t think “white” or “heterosexual”, when I think of cowboys.....I just think “cowboy.”
Who is the racist here?
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