Posted on 07/11/2018 7:46:13 AM PDT by blam
Professors at the University of Wyoming say the schools new cowboy slogan promotes white heterosexual masculinity. Expanding upon the University of Wyomings 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 everybodys head in the U.S. is the white, heterosexual male.
Porter explained that she thinks the slogan might potentially ostracize students who arent 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 schools 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 universitys 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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Poor Christine is just angry because NO REAL COWBOY will pay any attention to her. REAL women love REAL MEN and COWBOYS.
Obviously dealing a killing blow to ‘Farmers only dot com’.
The majority were white, heterosexual males.
Communists hate factual history.
Pssst lady...do you know that cowboys are not only white, but Hispanic, Asian, Native American, Pacific Islanders and Blacks? I think you need a history lesson about the history of cowboys which was started by the Spanish explorers.
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Taylor Haynes sounds like an interesting guy. I think I’ll watch him and see how he does.
Persons of bovine?
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