SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
from tonguetied.us
A University of Iowa law professor has complained that a locker room set aside for visiting teams at Kinnick Stadium is homophobic and sexist because it's painted pink, according to the Associated Press.
Erin Buzuvis, who moved from Boston to Iowa City to teach at the law school, says she and several friends have been concerned for months about the message behind the locker rooms. She says they promote negative stereotypes.
"With a pink locker room, you're saying that 'You are a girlie man. You are weak, like a girl,'" Buzuvis said. "That implies that girls are nondominant, therefore, lesser. And that is offensive."
The locker room was painted pink in the 1970s by former Hawkeye football coach Hayden Fry. The carpeting, metal lockers, brick walls, sinks, shower floor -- even the urinals -- are all pink.
Buzuvis says she has been getting death threats and hate mail since disclosing her discomfort about the locker room to a reporter.
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Now let me see. What part of the above story really lets me know what's the root of the problem here. Lemme see...
Oh yeah! THIS part:
Seems to be the problem a lot of places. Transplanted yankees who got tired of screwing up their own hometowns and deide to enlighten the rest of the world with their superior intellect and everything else. Like it ain't enough that they fucked up life where they were planted; now they gotta share the joy.
I think having the visitor's locker room painted pink is hilarious myself. I mean, it IS a game and all.
And she got hate mail too! Oh the horror! D'ya think?
[/SnP mixing more mortar for the Rebel Roost]
A University of Iowa law professor has complained that a locker room set aside for visiting teams at Kinnick Stadium is homophobic and sexist because it's painted pink, according to the Associated Press.
Erin Buzuvis, who moved from Boston to Iowa City to teach at the law school, says she and several friends have been concerned for months about the message behind the locker rooms. She says they promote negative stereotypes.
"With a pink locker room, you're saying that 'You are a girlie man. You are weak, like a girl,'" Buzuvis said. "That implies that girls are nondominant, therefore, lesser. And that is offensive."
The locker room was painted pink in the 1970s by former Hawkeye football coach Hayden Fry. The carpeting, metal lockers, brick walls, sinks, shower floor -- even the urinals -- are all pink.
Buzuvis says she has been getting death threats and hate mail since disclosing her discomfort about the locker room to a reporter.
**end**
Now let me see. What part of the above story really lets me know what's the root of the problem here. Lemme see...
Oh yeah! THIS part:
Seems to be the problem a lot of places. Transplanted yankees who got tired of screwing up their own hometowns and deide to enlighten the rest of the world with their superior intellect and everything else. Like it ain't enough that they fucked up life where they were planted; now they gotta share the joy.
I think having the visitor's locker room painted pink is hilarious myself. I mean, it IS a game and all.
And she got hate mail too! Oh the horror! D'ya think?
[/SnP mixing more mortar for the Rebel Roost]
