Friday, April 11, 2008

Colorado College Punishes, Deems Students "Violent", for Satirical Flyer

Must not laugh at feminists. We read:
"Two students at Colorado College were found guilty of violating the school's conduct code regarding "violence" after they distributed a satirical flyer mocking a publication of the Feminist and Gender Studies program....

In early 2008, Colorado College's "Feminist and Gender Studies Interns" distributed a flyer called "The Monthly Rag." The flyer included a reference to "male castration," an announcement about a lecture on "feminist porn" by a "world-famous prostitute and porn star," an explanation of "packing" (pretending to have a phallus), and a quotation from The Bitch Manifesto.

As a parody of "The Monthly Rag," Robinson and a second student, who wishes to remain nameless, distributed a flyer in February called "The Monthly Bag" under the pseudonym "The Coalition of Some Dudes." The flyer included references to "chainsaw etiquette," the shooting range of a sniper rifle, a quotation regarding a sexual position from the website menshealth.com, and a quotation about "female violence and abuse" of men from the website batteredmen.com.

Shortly thereafter, Colorado College President Richard F. Celeste sent out a campus-wide email about "The Monthly Bag," stating that "The flyers include threatening and demeaning content, which is categorically unacceptable in this community...

FIRE wrote to Celeste on March 21, 2008, pointing out that any punishment would contradict Colorado College's own policies and advertised commitments to free expression. The school's Diversity & Anti-Discrimination Policy states that "On a campus that is free and open, no idea can be banned or forbidden. No viewpoint or message may be deemed so hateful that it may not be expressed." Celeste, a former governor of Ohio, is abroad, and other administrators receiving the letter have not responded.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I lived in Ohio when Dick Celeste was governor and this does not surprise me. I disliked him and his policies so much I refused to have his name appear on my drivers license. I put a piece of correction tape over it. Although where his name ended up when I put my wallet in my back pocket was appropriate

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Anonymous said...

Yeah!
I always wanted to make a cartoon lampooning hypersensitive and perpetually offended, whiny,victim mentality Feminists.
It doesn't take much to get them into a whiny and weepy diatribe about imagined grievances!

For the most part sexism is just about dead.
These womyn just need something to whine about to make their crappy existence meaningful.