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
Looks like a collie.
SnakeDoc
A dog humping your leg doesn’t count as rape, honey. I’m sure you are hard up for action, being a feminist and all, but you still can’t count that.
Who cares what this nitwit thinks? Oh yeah, the PC police.
Cute doggie, but it looks more like a Spitz or a Collie than a Husky...
Sometimes I am embarrassed to be a woman.
These feminists are so stupid.
This is what passes for an educational experience today. Frankly, she should be mocked whenever she appears in public and run out of school.
“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.”
I’m confused... she was raped by a husky... and the administration were afraid to confront it?
No, probably raped by a UCONN athlete on “scholarship”,
and told to shut up about it.
No more calls please, we have a winner.
Good doggy!
Northeastern has a scarier looking husky that UConn. Good thing she didn’t go there.
I read the chick’s letter and I didnt find the word “rape” in it. Could this controversy be in the mind of the headline writer?
Grrrrrr!
Luby letter...
Suck up to authority.
Knock down others.
Bitch and moan.
Suck up to Authority.
That about covers it.
It’s a good thing it wasn’t written to me.
‘Hi, look at me, I’m pretty......pretty stupid!!’
I see many people wearing Scooby Doo masks in her future.
“Cute doggie, but it looks more like a Spitz or a Collie than a Husky...”
“Looks like a collie.”
“I’m sorry. That looks like a Pomeranian. Cute, for sure. But not a huskie.”
Yes to all. I guess I like the look of all those other types of dogs. Besides, maybe the lady players would rather be a “cuter” form of dog if they must be dogs at all. These team mascot names often don’t match up well with the girls’ teams. “Lady Knights”, for instance, makes no sense at all. If a woman somehow made the Chicago Bulls’ roster, would she be a cow?
Huskies just whine. Incessantly. They are cute and they work really hard. But they are mouthy and whiney. They like to talk.
I hate to rain on everyone’s parade, but the student calls out specific assaults on women committed by UConn athletes.
It would not be the first athletic program to be covering up sex crimes. Wasn’t there just a big scandal recently involving a well known football program and pedophiles???
Yeah, that.
Anybody that doesn’t realize that college sports is part of the bread and circuses wing of the democratic party is willfully ignorant. They recruit thugs and then have to cover up the thuggish behavior.
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