Posted on 04/26/2013 12:27:53 PM PDT by drewh
The new logo for the University of Connecticut’s 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 Google“The face of real life UConn athletics is certainly capable of frightening college women,” wrote Luby.
Herbst did not respond to requests for comment
I am beginning to think that, in this day and age, not being nuts, refusing to be offended, and otherwise minding my own business, make men the real victim, because the certifiably nuts, the perpetually offended, and the Nosy Parkers can use their dysfunctional state of mind to deprive me of stuff or to force stuff on me.
I hadn’t seen that poem since my daughter brought it home from an English class.
Your daughter was most fortunate ... “English class” too often is the province of logorrhea, inanity and perversion masquerading as literature.
My schools team was a gopher. Pretty cute really. Would have better if it was holding a machine gun.
No ankle is safe!
Instead of doing this, she could be a hero for finally busting that “culture”.
This country’s priorities are seriously effed up.
[people protested the jailing of a pedophile because it screwed up their football season...madness]
Well, we sent the child to Catholic school, so that might be a factor...
We had a Siberian for a couple months. He never barked; he just howled constantly. And we could NEVER let him off the chain because he would run off.
There’s actual precedent for her “fear’ apparently and I do not agree with her choice of addressing that.
Bawling about some “threatening” cartoon dog isn’t going to help future raped women one bit.
She should bawl about the “threatening” athletes.
This just makes her a laughing stock.
You’ve got to know we’re in dire straits when sports standings are more important than punishing criminal activity-I suppose that is what happens when people watch too many (obviously scripted) reality shows...
I grew up with a musher as a dad. By the time I was out of the house and married, I was thrilled to be away from the huskies. They would all start singing when I would walk to the house when I would visit.
Drive me nuts.
I got a German Shepard as a puppy. At about a year, she started talking. Same voice. Same tone.
I think my next dog will be a beagle. At least I know they bay.
It’s a good sign that your pets are pretty bright.
Many of my dogs ignored the TV but others watched it raptly.
Until they “got it”, I had to be careful to not watch shows with fleeing prey animals or the Ibizans would go bonkers jumping and barking at them.
When I had a sturdy old CRT type TV it was just annoying...with a flat screen LED, it’s downright dangerous.
;D
You are correct, sir.
We live in the Age Of The Professional Victim...and they’ve got to have somebody to blame.
I have a 7 ft. game fence-and my Husky is a Siberian. In all the 14+ years I’ve had her, she is never allowed alone in the yard-they are notorious doggie escape artists-just have a yearning to go find the Iditarod and run.
Good move. My Catholic school English teacher introduced me to Rudyard Kipling. My Dad introduced me to Robert Service. I'm grateful to both.
Zappa’s lost album;
“Pomeranians Ripped My Flesh”
Most definitely.
I was -horrified- by the public attitude toward that perv.
Rallies in his defense!
Imagine what that did to the minds of the boys he molested.
It wasn’t enough that he raped them of their dignity and innocence..the world feted him for it.
Vile, vile, vile!
The German Shepard is my favorite dog-I’ve had two over the years, and I’ve never had a more loyal and protective animal companion. The reason I don’t have one now is because their lifespan is so short, and they have so may orthopedic problems due to inbreeding, and that breaks my heart.
I’d never think of having more than one Husky-the kennel in WA state where we bought Husky girl raised them for sled races and shows, and I was nearly deafened sitting among them to see which pup liked us best-even the little puppies were howling when the big dogs did.
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