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College’s Husky Dog Logo Promotes Rape, Says Student (UCONN)
Daily Caller ^ | 1:21 04/26/2013

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: carolynluby; coeds; feminazi; highereducation; mascot; mascott; ohplease; pc; uconn
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To: ColdOne

LOL


61 posted on 04/26/2013 12:53:28 PM PDT by Salamander (Freeps With Boas)
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To: drewh

is she saying she was sexually attacked by a husky?

why does a dog make her think of sex?

has she had a traumatic 'furry' incident?

inquiring minds want to know

62 posted on 04/26/2013 12:54:06 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: drewh
The complaint is ridiculous, but I actually prefer the old logo:



Lots of great teams in all sports have had "cute" logos. If an Oriole, Dolphin, Penguin (old Pitt. NHL) don't have to look mean, neither does a furry doggy.
63 posted on 04/26/2013 12:55:36 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (HRC:"Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping,"-NKorea)
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To: drewh

Is it me, or does she look a bit like Sarah Jessica Parker?


64 posted on 04/26/2013 12:55:57 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Some people take there grammar way to seriously.)
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To: Salamander
[it’s supposed to be a collar with chrome studs, I think]

Yah Thank?,
But I've seen Chicks that were meaner looking.

65 posted on 04/26/2013 12:55:58 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: sten
I'm going to make a wild-eyed guess, here, and suggest that the Miss Hypersensitivity was (or claims to have been) raped by a U Conn athlete.

But that's just a guess.

66 posted on 04/26/2013 12:56:20 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: drewh

Frankly, I find her scarier than the logo. That young woman has “psycho chick” written all over her face. One of the kind back in college that made you think “yeah, I *might* go home with her...but only if I could make sure she didn’t find out where I live.”


67 posted on 04/26/2013 12:57:33 PM PDT by DemforBush (Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!)
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To: Salamander

LOL, Can you imagine what she might say about your lesser advanced pets?


68 posted on 04/26/2013 12:57:52 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Dr. Sivana

The old mascot would be too difficult for the artistically chllenged to draw.


69 posted on 04/26/2013 12:58:47 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

odds are good. and her diversity meme laden education forbids her from reporting it or avoid disenfranchising minority groups


70 posted on 04/26/2013 1:00:26 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: drewh

You have to have a translator with these people. “Rape continuum” = “Rape culture” = “my imagination”.


71 posted on 04/26/2013 1:00:37 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Dr. Sivana

I’m sorry. That looks like a Pomeranian. Cute, for sure. But not a huskie.


72 posted on 04/26/2013 1:00:59 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: rbg81
Given the end result, they might have well made a bowl of mush the mascot.

pulp: a soft pulpy mass

Clearly you are inciting taking the other team and mashing them into a bowl. Big Sis has been alerted and will be in touch shortly.

73 posted on 04/26/2013 1:01:02 PM PDT by mykroar (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.-Thomas Paine)
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To: sten
"Ah'm yer huckleberry"


74 posted on 04/26/2013 1:01:15 PM PDT by Salamander (Freeps With Boas)
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To: drewh

My Husky is deeply offended-she says that student is the bigger bitch, too, awooooo...


75 posted on 04/26/2013 1:01:52 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: sten
disenfranchising minority groups

Marvin the Martian? Spock?

76 posted on 04/26/2013 1:01:54 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Oh, no!

That one has mad, fevered, drooling lust in its eyes!

[and looks kinda like a Pomeranian]

/facepalm


77 posted on 04/26/2013 1:03:30 PM PDT by Salamander (Freeps With Boas)
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To: drewh

Dear Carolyn,

Thanks for the letter. I especially like the reference to glass ceiling. Could I interest you in a mirrored floor? It makes it easy to see thong underwear when well built chicks wear skirts. Concering the Husky, I was wondering if you prefer doggystyle or the missionary position?

One last thing, how would you rate your looks on a scale of 1 to 10?

Thanks


78 posted on 04/26/2013 1:03:57 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: ArrogantBustard; sten

Nope, state it outright.

She was raped by a “minority”, probably black, athlete that was only at the university because of his athletic ability.

She was probably told that nothing would be done to said athlete, once again, because of his “value” to the athletic department, and his protected status as a “minority”. And they probably shamed her by convincing her she had it coming and she would be “racist” if she pressed charges.

But, then again, just a “guess”.


79 posted on 04/26/2013 1:05:11 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: DemforBush

Forty years ago, she would have been a follower of Charles Manson.


80 posted on 04/26/2013 1:05:15 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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