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
I suppose a really desperate intact dog (that is, a male dog) might if he saw a picture of a b—— female dog.
Seriously, she needs to see someone for her issues.
Yup.
All too common, I’m afraid.
Just...damn.
8^O
I think they had to airbrush out the naught doggie bits.
They airbrushed out Alice’s thumb on a cover because somebody, somewhere, said it looked like a penis.
I’m wondering what kind of mind ~needs~ to see phallic images everywhere.
She’d see testicles there.
Only butterflies, teddy bears and My Little Ponies allowed.
Not that anybody asked, but chronic leg humping can be caused by chronic urinary tract infections.
Can’t hurt to have the dogs checked out.
A guy we used to know thought it was “macho” because his dog humped *everything*, animate and inanimate.
It died.
The Gunner Gophers!
Nah; with dogs, that’s all triggered by scent.
They go solely by smell.
Pics don’t work.
[and she’s disturbed]
You beat me.
:D
LOL...those are nutmegs.....what can I say...the metaphor was too irresistible. :)
Indeed it was...to rational, thinking people.
However, that is not our current topic.
:)
Weak attempt at a joke. :)
And she definitely needs to get mental help.
UConn should immediately change its mascot from “Huskies” to “Sanduskies” and change their logo to a small child being raped in a shower.......then maybe this fool will feel safer.
Given the online history of (former) US Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, that’s really funny.
U’r BAD!
Could one of you forward the url of the now-modded pic via FReepmail? Thanks.
FR's perpetually offended squad strikes again, apparently.
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