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
“Pirates or Vikings” are probably the subject or her secret orgasmic fantasies. She sounds like a silly, frustrated girl who needs to cowboy up and live in the real world.
Played on a fast-pitch softball team called the Diamond Dogs...a few years ago!!
Nobody’s ‘pinned down’ if they’re prepared to take flak for speaking up.
One of these days I fully expect that somebody’s gonna belt me for something I say.
So be it.
It breaks my heart that my little niece and nephew will grow up in a world completely different from the one I knew.
Every perversion will be “normal” by the time they get to high school.
It sickens me.
I’ll bet that is weird-sometimes, I howl with Husky girl, which she enjoys, but the 3 cats refuse to do so.
“The real world” and liberals are absolute strangers.
Expel her.
Definitely more trouble than she’s worse.
Looks like a happy puppy to me.
Get out!
That is so cool.
My school team was the Blazers, short for Trailblazers and we had a Daniel Boone looking guy as our mascot.
Boring.
LOL!
Maybe you should trade them in for some Siamese.
The Dobe is currently being annoyed by a TV ad with what sounds like a rinky-dink xylophone soundtrack.
He looks up and his lips start to form that weird “O” shape that precedes a howl and I’ve started joining in.
He looks *so* baffled by my howls that I can barely keep from laughing.
That’s because you’re not nuts.
On June 21st 2012, UConn Mens basketball becomes the first BCS school team to face a postseason ban based solely on low APR (Academic Progress Rate) scores.
This along with the listed assaults suggest they've been recruiting urban thugs (from a protected class) to the sports teams and then covering up the inevitable thug behavior.
Gangsta culture is a rape culture and having invited it to play on the team, the logo now represents that culture.
Only she can't say that, because the thug athletes are from a protected class like the Amish, so she has to dress it up in PC feminism.
“And there’s the ‘rape’ meme-by-association, no matter how tortuous the ‘logic’ is.”
Sorry, I dont buy it. Rape is a specific form of violence and unless she mentions it it is misleading and inflammatory to indicate that she did. I think menacing, or intimidating to women would have been much more accurate to put in the headline. In any case this “woman” clearly has a screw loose and hates men. That being the case, she has a bright future in the women’s movement and RAT politics.
If she is so offended by a canine mascot, perhaps she should consider another college. I would like to recommend the following:
College | Location | Mascot |
Scottsdale Community College | Scottsdale, AZ | Artie the Fighting Artichoke |
Delta State University | Cleveland, MS | The Fighting Okra |
Mary Baldwin College | Staunton, VA | Gladys the Squirrel |
For some odd reason this thread reminded me of the following, written by Robert Service:
The Quitter
When you’re lost in the Wild, and you’re scared as a child,
And Death looks you bang in the eye,
And you’re sore as a boil, its according to Hoyle
To cock your revolver and . . . die.
But the Code of a Man says: “Fight all you can,”
And self-dissolution is barred.
In hunger and woe, oh, its easy to blow . . .
Its the hell-served-for-breakfast thats hard.
“You’re sick of the game!” Well, now thats a shame.
You’re young and you’re brave and you’re bright.
“You’ve had a raw deal!” I know but don’t squeal,
Buck up, do your damnedest, and fight.
Its the plugging away that will win you the day,
So don’t be a piker, old pard!
Just draw on your grit, its so easy to quit.
Its the keeping-your chin-up thats hard.
Its easy to cry that you’re beaten and die;
Its easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to fight and to fight when hopes out of sight
Why thats the best game of them all!
And though you come out of each gruelling bout,
All broken and battered and scarred,
Just have one more try its dead easy to die,
Its the keeping-on-living thats hard.
The University of Washington has the Husky as their mascot but uses a Malamute as their “Husky” at games etc as the husky breed is much smaller and less “threatening” then a malamute.
Actually, both are wonderful dogs and would lick you to death before threatening any one.
The old logo looks like it is leering. I like the new one better.
The dog and the cats like to watch TV-especially programs with animals running around and making noise-Midget girl “chatters” at birds she sees outside the window, and at the ones on TV-she doesn’t seem to know the difference...
University of Arkansas: Monticello Boll Weevils
Evergreen State College Geoducks< R> Pronounced gooey duck, this mascot is not a waterfowl, but a mollusk! Their mascot was chosen for this unique animal, much like a giant snail, that is native to the Pacific Northwest.
She’s the kind of girl where you go to HER place, not yours. And you never give her your phone number or personal email.
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