Posted on 04/26/2013 12:27:53 PM PDT by drewh
The new logo for the University of Connecticuts sports teams is a terrifying husky dog that calls to mind images of sexual assault, says one student.
The new logo was unveiled last week, receiving mixed-to-negative reviews from UConn fans who preferred the older, cuter husky dog.
But one student went much further, criticizing the new, meaner logo for being a pro-rape symbol.
Ads by GoogleIn an open letter to UC President Susan Herbst, self-described feminist student Carolyn Luby wrote that the redesigned team logo will intimidate women and empower rape culture.
UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma said the logo is looking right through you and saying, Do not mess with me. This is a streamlined, fighting dog, and I cannot wait for it to be on our uniforms and court.
In response, Luby wrote, What terrifies me about the admiration of such traits is that I know what it feels like to have a real life Husky look straight through you and to feel powerless, and to wonder if even the administration cannot mess with them. And I know I am not alone.
There were two sexual assaults at UConn involving athletes in the past year, Luby claimed.
The logo and the teams it represents are menacing to women, she wrote.
Ads by GoogleThe face of real life UConn athletics is certainly capable of frightening college women, wrote Luby.
Herbst did not respond to requests for comment
At first I was totally on the opposing side of Luby...
But I think I see where she’s coming from.
A rape by an athlete at the college.
A coverup via threats, shaming, etc.
A re-reminder every time she looks at the mascot.
Diamond Dogs is one weird album. I think Aladdin Sane hints more at the whole rape thing, though.
“The shutters lifted in inches on Temperance Hill, as red mutant eyes gazed on Hunger City, no more big wheels.”
“Fleas the size of rats, sucked on rats the size of cats”
—Future Legend, Diamond Dogs
Weird stuff.
Of course, Bowie might get a pass from the feminist crowd because:
“You’ve got your mother in a whirl, cause she’s not sure if you’re a boy or a girl.”
—Rebel, Rebel; Diamond Dogs
A wannabe Fluke in the making.
Dear Ms. Luby, I’m sorry that you had to endure whatever traumatic event that has caused you to project your suffering onto this logo.
I guess this must be Reggie Love’s rendition of 0b0z0 and the SC judges.
But is it “rape-rape?”
UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma said the logo is looking right through you and saying, Do not mess with me. This is a streamlined, fighting dog, and I cannot wait for it to be on our uniforms and court.
Huskies are "streamlined fighting dogs? In what universe?
In response, Luby wrote, What terrifies me about the admiration of such traits is that I know what it feels like to have a real life Husky look straight through you and to feel powerless, and to wonder if even the administration cannot mess with them. And I know I am not alone.
She had a Husky "look straight through her? What? Did it look in one of her ears?
There were two sexual assaults at UConn involving athletes in the past year, Luby claimed.
And there's the 'rape' meme-by-association, no matter how tortuous the 'logic' is.
The logo and the teams it represents are menacing to women, she wrote.
Not only the logo but the team itself. now we're getting a glimpse of her psyche.
The face of real life UConn athletics is certainly capable of frightening college women, wrote Luby.
Somebody should ask why she fears the athletes.
Hah! I’m sure the Little Miss Muffett college girl will run in terror from THAT hellhound...
LOL
Uh oh.
Don’t be shocked if Shibumi comes by to elaborate on the meaning of the entire Bowie catalog...;D
[Bowie ripped off Alice..there..I said it]
/running like hell
LMAO!
That little Pom is so adorable it almost makes me want to get one.
:)
“the Chicago Bulls roster, would she be a cow?”
Well, if she made that roster, she’d have to be a big ol’ heifer for sure...
I can’t even fault her for the over the top feminist brown-nosing approach she used to bring the subject up.
If a conservative student had brought this issue up, they would have shredded her themselves. Instead they’ve got the right-tards doing it for them.
College campuses are weird places these days where PC rules of engagement mean athletes from protected classes can do anything short of murder and it gets hushed up, while non athlete males can be strung up by their thumbs on NO evidence and they will be afforded no rights to defend themselves.
Then she should man up and do one of two things.
Go public with whatever happened to her, if it did.
Transfer to another college.
Life is hard.
She better toughen up soon or she won’t survive.
/Survivor Salamander
They are very vocal-mine even howls when she hears coyotes-she is a great companion, even if spoiled...
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say she’s no fan of the Pirates or Vikings, either.
They are cute, but I’m not really a small dog person-one of my neighbors has a cute, yapping terrier-I’d rather listen to my Husky howl at coyotes any day...
If she has such a problem with the school’s logo why did she decide to go there? I don’t it has been much different for at least 100 years.
Life is hard, and even harder when you’re pinned down by political correctness and liberalism.
I said “almost”. :)
I only have one Ibizan left now but used to have 5 and they and the Portuguese Podengo Medio had their scheduled howl-fest every evening, like clockwork.
I have no idea why unless it was just a pack bonding thing.
The Ibizan and PPM have gotten the male Dobermann into now and hearing them is just bizarre.
His basso profundo howl mixed in with their warbling tenors is hysterical.
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