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(Some Guy)   Athletic-American students are offended at Middlebury College's Dean of Institutional Diversity. Two items: 1. Subby is not making this up. 2. Including "Athletic-Americans" and "Dean of Diversity"   (middleburycampus.com) divider line
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1535 clicks; posted to Politics » on 03 May 2007 at 4:36 PM (15 years ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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filth
2007-05-03 2:53:44 PM  
Why are institutions of higher learning so damn stupid?
 
Weaver95
2007-05-03 3:08:16 PM  
Cool! We've got our very own version of the zampolit on campus now!

yay for diversity! yay! Yay I say, yay!
 
SkinnyHead
2007-05-03 3:20:10 PM  
Lee said that he had also felt the sting of such discrimination, and "usually doesn't wear any Middlebury soccer gear in class just to avoid this."

Those complaining about manly archetypal athlete heroes probably don't have the soccer team in mind.
 
Paedophile_Deluxe
2007-05-03 3:29:40 PM  
Where was the phrase "Athletic-Americans"?
 
NittLion78
2007-05-03 3:39:24 PM  
Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! This penis party's got to go!
 
Megain
2007-05-03 4:03:29 PM  
Paedophile_Deluxe: Where was the phrase "Athletic-Americans"?

it's right there in the headline that the submitter made up

what are you, blind?
 
davidovitch
2007-05-03 4:05:40 PM  
The archetypal athlete-hero is manly, according to Vila. In youth sports, boys are told "Shake it off" or "You're fine." The need to be tough and manly is reinforced by the media, which romanticizes the star who "plays through the pain" to lead his team to victory. Young males implicitly learn that anything not associated with the archetypal male hero - including homosexuality - is "un-manly" and therefore unacceptable.

so, let me get this straight...this professors solution to getting football players to be less homophobic is to imply that gay people are incapable of playing through pain?

makes sense to me...
 
Hexar
2007-05-03 4:42:47 PM  
Am I the only one that thinks that Middlebury sounds like a totally made-up name for a town?
 
Clarence Potter
2007-05-03 4:44:54 PM  
davidovitch: "so, let me get this straight...this professors solution to getting football players to be less homophobic is to imply that gay people are incapable of playing through pain?"

Am thinking someone will come along and make some comment about gay men, playing through the pain, or something like that.

/ Not that there's anything wrong with that!
// What about the women's softball team?
/// I'm just saying...
 
tlchwi02
2007-05-03 4:46:07 PM  
Playing through the pain is stupid anyway- i played through the pain in soccer on a sprained ankle, which in turn weakened it, which in turn led to a series of further sprains, which in turn ended up leading to physical therapy, which has finally left me with a weakened ankle that causes me trouble.

And I'm only in my early 20's- i see my father getting back surgery, his friends getting knee surgeries because they had that macho attitude about doing stuff. The point isn't even too much the encouragement to pkay through (especially with men) so much as the fact that when you're 12 through about 28 you're pretty sure that nothing you do now will ever catch up to you later- exhibit A will be my eventual liver replacement
 
Donald_McRonald
2007-05-03 4:55:20 PM  
tlchwi02: Playing through the pain is stupid anyway- i played through the pain in soccer on a sprained ankle, which in turn weakened it, which in turn led to a series of further sprains, which in turn ended up leading to physical therapy, which has finally left me with a weakened ankle that causes me trouble.

Moral of the story: soccer is dumb.
 
CrAz3D
2007-05-03 4:55:25 PM  
thats just gay
 
Gulper Eel
2007-05-03 4:56:47 PM  
Snake's alma mater has really gone into the shiatter.
 
c7hu1hu fh746n
2007-05-03 4:58:53 PM  
How is 'shake it off' or 'you're fine' homophobic?
 
RussianPooper
2007-05-03 5:06:21 PM  
Subby made up "Athletic-Americans".

It's too bad. I was really hoping to see it.
 
zerkalo
2007-05-03 5:09:50 PM  
So many douchebags, so few applicators
 
bwesb
2007-05-03 5:12:06 PM  
People have the absolute right to say whatever they want no matter how incompent or hateful. For example - if I want to rename Middlebury, a very good college btw, Pillow-Biter University then that is my right (and opinion) just as it is the right (and opinion) of everyone else to hold me accountable for being a knuckle-dragging, homophobic arsehole.

Action and speech are designed to elicit reactions - thereby enabling dialogue, consequences or at least a punch in the face. In any of those cases - people learn something. That's the farking point.

Removing any form of speech is counter-productive because then no one learns that both actions and speech have consequences. Once rights get taken away - they seldom are given back.

Just some thoughts.
 
Korovyov
2007-05-03 5:12:07 PM  
Meh.


The impish aspect of me wonders whether they could get away with renaming their teams the 'Thebans'.
 
ritalinchild 54
2007-05-03 5:22:40 PM  
""While I have never witnessed nor experienced homophobia at the gym, I see more graffiti there saying "gay" or "fag" than anywhere else.""


uhhhhh
 
General Zang
2007-05-03 5:30:39 PM  
What's slightly amusing.... in a sad way... is that the term "Athletic-American" may actually be used someday.

To diferentiate the small minority of people who don't weigh 350+ pouinds, and that small monority of Americans without huge rolls of fat all over their bodies..... from the "normal" (ie: beached whale) Americans.

;)
 
State_College_Arsonist
2007-05-03 5:49:38 PM  
Zucker's other suggestions included harsher penalties for those caught engaging in hate speech and Residential Life staff taking a more proactive role in the lives of their dorm mates.

-Nothing teaches respect for free speech like outlawing speech deemed hateful.
 
Ex-Republican
2007-05-03 6:00:22 PM  
Where's rugbyjock when you need him?
 
HotWingConspiracy
2007-05-03 6:10:48 PM  
I demand my rights as a Sedentary-American.
 
worldbeater
2007-05-03 6:28:12 PM  
I emphasized that I did not want to single out athletes black people as the sole source of homophobia crime, in that I did not believe that all or most athletes black people were homophobic criminals," said Zucker. "However, I remarked that there is a long history of relationships between homophobic criminal attitudes and sports black culture because of the ultra masculine, competitive atmosphere of athletics black culture. A decrease in recruitment and emphasis on athletics black students and culture might help create a more balanced college with more respect and less hate speech crime.

Bigotry is bigotry is bigotry, and there's no excuse for it, not even against people with muscles.

tlchwi02
The point isn't even too much the encouragement to pkay through (especially with men) so much as the fact that when you're 12 through about 28 you're pretty sure that nothing you do now will ever catch up to you later- exhibit A will be my eventual liver replacement

Really? You didn't know playing sports at a high level would cause wear and tear on your body? I knew full well what I was getting into, and my teammates did as well. We knew that something we enjoyed doing might cause some long term damage, and we chose to do it anyway. Hell, I'd do it again, and I've had two fairly major surgeries.
 
spiderpaz
2007-05-03 6:34:02 PM  
that's so ghey

:^\
 
ne2d
2007-05-03 6:41:22 PM  
RussianPooper Subby made up "Athletic-Americans"

Actually, James Taranto made it up. This is today's Fark rip off of BOTWT.
 
spleef420
2007-05-03 6:43:54 PM  
filth: Why are institutions of higher learning so damn stupid?

they cater to whoever donates the most money.
 
MisterRPG
2007-05-03 10:35:09 PM  
If he can take a dick, he can take a joke.

// +1 to whoever Carlos Mencia stole that from
// +1 to davidovitch too
// I bet I could kick this Zucker guy's ass
// Internet tough guy is teh new ghey
 
Kirkenhegelstein [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-05-04 2:00:24 AM  
Ain't no "Athletic-Americans" in TFA. And I was hoping for another catchy new relevant social group title.
 
Mr. Scorpion
2007-05-04 10:30:58 AM  
This college should hold another town meeting and have people annonymously suggest ways to stop dirty thoughts and overeating.

Students that paid to go to school here deserve a refund.
 
sojourner
2007-05-04 12:44:44 PM  
How about 'if you're gay, accept that many people have the right to object to your lifestyle choice and are exercising that right. Don't like it; don't go to college. Life isn't fair.'
 
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