Posted on 08/19/2015 6:24:59 PM PDT by SJackson
The writer is research associate in American Studies at University of Maryland at College Park, and the author of “Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South” (under contract to University of Georgia Press).
When administrators at the University of Georgia declared a ban on hoop skirts in the spring, I could only think, what took you so long?
But in that sense UGA was really no different from other Southern schools. Long after many universities had officially done away with a variety of Old South symbols, the feminine figure most clearly identified with Dixie — the Southern belle — continued to enjoy free rein. College administrators who had long since banned the Confederate battle flag, nixed the singing of “Dixie” and given plantation-owner mascots the boot were still saying yes to the dress.
Wearing hoop skirts to unofficial campus social events such as fraternity-sponsored Old South balls, after all, was just feminine. Just fluff. Just women.
The hoop skirt ban was enacted in response to an ensuing uproar in March at the University of Oklahoma after members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a fraternity with Southern roots, were caught on video chanting a racist song with references to lynching. The ban also came just weeks before University of Mississippi student Graeme Phillip Harris was indicted on federal civil rights charges of leaving a noose and a flag bearing Confederate insignia on a statue of James Meredith, the school’s first black student. Harris has since pleaded guilty. Of the charges, then-Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. noted, “No one should ever be made to feel threatened or intimidated because of what they look like or who they are.” The Mississippi NAACP branch has called the actions a hate crime.
The crude campus racism would soon pale next to the June tragedy in Charleston, S.C. After the mass murder of nine African American churchgoers, allegedly by a white supremacist who blatantly linked his views with the Confederate banner, the U.S. public engaged in long overdue soul-searching about the true meaning of Confederate symbolism. One result has been the steady removal of its signs from civic life. But related conversations have not necessarily taken place, and the question remains: Will feminine racial symbols — less noticed, highly effective — ever be similarly called to task? Will observers ever recognize what the hoop — and the contemporary belle — have to do with the hate?
I look at it this way. Liberals tell us that starvation is a euphoric and humane way to go. Terri Schaivo being their primary test subject. Liberals tell us that late term abortion, even after actual birth is fine as well. So lets take them at their word.
Liberals tell us the planet is overpopulated and we must more than halve humanity’s collective ‘footprint’ to prevent global warming.
Well what possible reason could there be for liberals to oppose ridding the planet of liberals? It’s their idea after all. They want an end to war? Liberals and their mindsets have started -every- war in history. They want an end to crime? Crime is liberal by definition. Conservatives aren’t out there raping and pillaging. The four individuals responsible for a combined 200,000,000 human deaths, were all devout liberals. One German, one Russian, One Chinaman and one American. It’s a global issue.
And with cages, we can also create Zoo like environments and charge admission with the profits being used to rebuild the hell on earth they created. That way children can see the evil people that nearly destroyed them all. And learn from their bad example.
I see no downside.
Now we know why she hates hoops. They made her jump through a few at the Westminster.
I think I just figured out her issue...Imagine my surprise.
Perhaps. But she isn’t using toothpaste very often.
Is it “racist” to use toothpaste?
A perfect example of a social justice warrior (SJW).
The best response is to ban THEM.
It was the style of the times, and nothing more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_skirt
The Victorian era had women dressed covered from head to foot, and even hiding their faces behind hand held fans. Not a lot different from the Islamic hijabs of today.........................
I see what you did there............I SEE IT!.........
Over my dead body.
You done went and made me hungry!.................
Despite widespread criticism, crinolines became extremely fashionable across the Western world from the 1850s to the 1870s. The steel-hooped cage crinoline was mass-produced in massive quantities and worn by women of every social standing and class across the Western world, from royalty to factory workers.
I was a young girl in the time that crinolin petticoats were popular, I had one but I hated it. I always preferred bluejeans because I like to ride my horse.
She looks like a disgruntled sodomite.
No wonder she hates what the Southern belle represents.
TMLR. (Too much like right.)
So this is what Elizabeth Boyd thinks of the southern belle, that it promotes racism? This is what I say to her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLnTWxpTQt4
Very well argued. By their own logic they have condemned themselves.
Vagina lover
At least she and I have common ground there
Then Eric The Red (triple entendre) should take his white half to any black environment in any major US city and walk about at night....strolling.....or get a flat tire
unless Danny Glover comes to the rescue you're gonna get leaky Pinky
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