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
Let me guess, that’s dog’s name is “Billy Jeff”
Well, the answer is obvious..like most radical feminists Carolyn Luby is Carolyn Loopy.
The mascot is supposed to scare athletic rivals
She definitely sounds like she has “issues”. A lot of “issues”.
Obviously some sort of memo has circulated through the left, instructing them to collapse the system from the inside with a deluge of lawsuits, scurrilous claims no matter how outlandish, and cries of discrimination/racism, thereby clogging up the courts, draining taxpayer money, and keeping everyone busy while they destroy what’s left of a formerly prosperous nation.
She has one point - there is a lot of sexual misconduct among college and professional athletes.
Part of it is the environment and culture in which they are raised, part of it is their entitlement mentality.
I bet this pitiable woman has had such an encounter and the mascot of the sports team causes some PTSD effects in her.
She needs to get some help for her PTSD instead of taking it out on a symbol.
Wow... who are these people? What planet are they really from? Because we all know that Huskies are famous for raping women. (do I need a sarc tag?)
With this level of stupidity, UConn really needs to reconsider its admissions standards.
Throw in DC traitors, some muzz saboteurs, and surrendered borders, and that pretty well sums it up.
Among “other” adjectives.
;D
Disgusting, icky, repulsive, deranged, perverted “issues”.
Why do I get the feeling that in ten years she will be wearing a burka and supporting a future islamic terrorist?
What planet is she from?
Cute Neckless! how sweet
Natural or Cultured Pearls?
although the bridge of the dog’s nose does look a bit phallic...
Pretty good guess, I’d say.
Toss her and her friends out and let them attend Screw U to finish their degrees in Womens Studdies
Frethwater pearlth, thilly!
[it’s supposed to be a collar with chrome studs, I think]
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