Why Can’t They “Just Get Along”? V-Day meets P-Day on campus.

NRO ^ | May 02, 2005, 8:08 a.m. | By Christina Hoff Sommers

[kevkrom]

I'm looking at my calendar: does V-day always come before P-day? Is this just P-day's way of being polite?

I believe they happen simultaneously, which is always an occasion to be applauded. (BTW... this may deserve an RPR ping...)

[Mr. Silverback]

This is easily the funniest thing I've read all week.

[Nam Vet]

Nope, it had no teeth but there was a small want ad nearby that simply stated.....

Wanted To Trade ...... one blind crab for two with NO teeth

Nam Vet (looks over shoulder for a lurking Mod)

[kevkrom]

Between this and the "affirmative action bake sales", I feel quite comfortable with the intelligence, good humor, and backbone of the next generation of conservatives.

[longtermmemmory]

This is long overdue.

[Mr. Silverback]

Caption-A-Rama Appetizer!

I will probably not be able to post the Caption-A-Rama today (I have a column and a research article on the burner and three kids in the house)...But if you don't get a ton of laughs out of this article, you need the services of a mortician, not a humorist.

If you want on or off the weekly Useful Idiot Caption-A-Rama Ping List, please notify me by freepmail.

[Mr. Silverback]

And last, but not least...new tagline!

[Mr. Silverback]

It sort of reminds me of the famous/infamous scene in The Wall where the poor guy gets eaten.

Why do I get this funny feeling about these college administrators who are mistreating the College Repubs...Somehow I'm just sure that when they get home at night their fat and psychopathic wives thrash them to within inches of their lives.

True story: When I was in the air Force I had a psych eval (I wasn't nuts, it was a voluntary eval because I suspected I had ADD) and the doc was a newly minted Captain, with the bearing of a well-bred East Coast type...IIRC, he was from one of the ritzier parts of Long Island. One of the tests he gave me was a sheet with phrases on it, and I was supposed to fill in the first thing that came into my head. My answers must have been pretty sane for the most part, because he only commented on one. You see, one of the phrases was "When I was a child," and I honestly wrote down the first thing that came into my head: "I had a fever, my hands felt just like two balloons."

I explained it to him, but he was still looking at me funny. I'd bet real money he'd never heard "Comfortably Numb."

[John O]

I'd love to see college males celebrate "V Day" by wearing t-shirts displaying blatently pornographic images of "butterflied" vaginas with the statement "HETERO GUYS LOVE VAGINA TOO!"

Real close.

Try "REAL MEN LOVE VAGINA TOO"

NOt only does it put the vagina back in it's place but it slams the mentally confused sexual perverts also

[visualops]

peter ping

[Mr. Silverback]

While I applaud their, um, motives, embarassing the provost probably wasn't good strategery. :P

Seriously, I do wonder if they were thinking, "If this guy accepts the award graciously, we're golden, he won't really be able to do anything to us and the V-Day crowd will be completely nuts about it!" Or maybe he's a Dean Wurmer type and they had nothing to lose.

[Slings and Arrows]

Free Testaclese!
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This-Is-Not-A-Ping-List ping!

[Freepmail me to get on or off this Not-A-Ping-List.]

[John O]

“My Vagina is Huggable.”

Imagine how "oppressed" these college girls would feel if you stopped them on the sidewalk during their poster distribution and said, "You poster is absurd. For one thing, it's physically impossible."

Or if she was passably good looking, simple ask her to prove it by letting you hug her vagina.

This really is a great thing. On V-day you can get by with all sorts of crass sexist remarks. After all, they brought the topic up first and you are just responding.

[visualops]

Testaclese

LOL!
P-Day sure sounds like more fun than V-Day.

[Mr. Silverback]

It got a rise out of the administration though...

Ugh...that was one bad joke.

The best line in the Sommers column was the part about Testaclese reading "Hard America, Soft America." My kids heard me laughing from the other floor of the house, but of course I couldn't share the joke!

[kevkrom]

embarassing the provost probably wasn't good strategery

Depends on the goal... if they were trying to force the school administration into committing one way or another, this was an excellent tactic -- the only responses possible were tacit approval or hypocrisy.

[Mr. Silverback]

Or if she was passably good looking, simple ask her to prove it by letting you hug her vagina.

LOL! Don't blame me if you get maced trying it.

And BTW...wouldn't a group of women putting up "My Vagina is Flirty" posters be pretty much unable to justify a sexual harassment claim? "Well, she went out in broad daylight and told the whole campus her vagina was flirty, so how can she haul me up before the administration because I said, 'And your butt looks good in the jeans, too'?"

[Mr. Silverback]

I suspect that was their goal. Good analysis.

[BufordP]

V-Day?

Ya know, I smell a fish.

[netmilsmom]

And people ask why we are saving every penny to send our girls to Hillsdale College.