… is “That’s not funny!” “You will be punished”
A satirical response to a feminist publication at Colorado College has landed the college and two of its students in the middle of a fierce debate over freedom of speech.Chris Robinson and another student at the Colorado Springs institution decided to print “The Monthly Bag” after seeing copies of a feminist and gender studies newsletter, “The Monthly Rag,” in restrooms around campus.
The edition of “The Monthly Rag” that prompted action included an announcement for a talk on feminist pornography, information on gender-bending practices, and a tidbit about a myth involving male castration. According to Robinson, it was representative of what appears every month.
In response, Robinson and a friend created their flier, which provided tips on chainsaw etiquette, detailed a sexual position from Men’s Health magazine and provided trivia about a sniper rifle  what Robinson called information for the stereotypical macho man.Staff members removed The Bag within hours of receiving complaints that the publication was threatening.
Please view and compare the following pdf’s of the fliers in question:
The Monthly Rag
The Monthly Bag
By what rationale does Colorado College deem the parody flier “threatening?” According to Mike Edmonds,vice president for student life at Colorado College, it is because of “the juxtaposition of weaponry and sexuality.”
What Edmonds intentionally forgot to say was it is because of the juxtaposition of stereotypical masculine sexuality and weaponry. The Monthly Rag (which last time I checked is a play on a crude reference to menstruation — and any male who uses such a reference is liable to have a murder of feminists after him demanding blood) juxtapostions mention of castration along with feminist porn and carrying dildos.
And what response does Tomi-Ann Roberts, director of the feminist and gender studies program that publishes “The Monthly Rag” have about the Colorado College’s jackboot response to a parody?
“Obviously, there are some men here on this campus who are very angry at our flier”
Oh. Anger. Yes, of course. Cuz making fun of the stuff coming out of your pretentious pseudo-academic program can never be funny. It must be Teh Hate.
It is interesting to note that Greg Lukianoff, FIRE president, wrote an article about this case for HuffPo and it generated only two comments.
Yes, those “Progressives” are sure dedicated to the cause of free speech, eh?
(h/t Patterico)
Comment by alppuccino on 4/13 @ 11:52 am #
Feminists are having great difficulty in presenting themselves in a less-than-moronic light.
Comment by B Moe on 4/13 @ 12:00 pm #
The punchline to any joke about feminists …
I thought it was “He didn’t have anywhere to put one.”
Comment by serr8d on 4/13 @ 12:05 pm #
Darleen, your “Monthly Bag” link didn’t work, so I fixed it.
Comment by SarahW on 4/13 @ 12:07 pm #
Is that a gun in your newsletter? Because I’m thinking I might wish to subscribe.
Comment by Dan Collins on 4/13 @ 12:11 pm #
Ewwww. Demanding blood?
Comment by Dan Collins on 4/13 @ 12:11 pm #
I mean, that’s like . . . tampires!
Comment by Darleen on 4/13 @ 12:12 pm #
thanks, serr8d, I’ve now fixed the link. (I apologize for being remiss in double checking my links)
Comment by Ken on 4/13 @ 12:27 pm #
I like the headline - “What can you do with a minor or major in feminist and gender studies.” Let’s see, you can wait tables or become a barista, but ya ain’t getting a job with a real salary.
Comment by McGehee on 4/13 @ 12:27 pm #
The PW commentariat is in rare form today. I’m getting seatbelts for this chair of mine.
Comment by Decca Records A&R Dude on 4/13 @ 12:32 pm #
President’s Blog
Comment by guinsPen on 4/13 @ 12:33 pm #
PHH, Day 707.
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 12:35 pm #
President Dick is mostly wrong, with one exception, to my mind. The sniper rifle bit was too far and could easily be colored as an implicit threat.
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 12:36 pm #
tampires
Beautiful, baby.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 4/13 @ 12:36 pm #
~ President Dick Celeste ~
heehee! I bet the vagina warriors are oppressed by his name.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 4/13 @ 12:37 pm #
BTW…I’m pre-tampire today. Watch out.
Comment by Tim P on 4/13 @ 12:46 pm #
tampires
Rare form Dan.
I won’t progress to the eye rolling bad Count Tampula by Bram Poker.
Comment by Darleen on 4/13 @ 12:47 pm #
Patrick
and posting an “interesting tidbit” about castration cannot also be easily construed as a “threat”?
The hyperventilating about guns, even to suspending 6 year olds for drawing ‘em, is faux outrage. This was clearly a parody piece and the college president’s excuses just underline the parody’s definition of “political radicalism”
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 1:07 pm #
Darleen,
I did not comment directly on Vagina Dentata, so I guess I should. I’m not sure it rises to the level of threat, but it’s certainly hostile. But it’s not the same as “we can pop you from 2 clicks away”.
This was clearly a parody piece and the college president’s excuses just underline the parody’s definition of “political radicalismâ€Â
It underlines more the parody’s anticipation of political humorlessness.
We’re on the same side here. The whole flier is without a doubt a parody, and the over-the-top nature of even the .50 cal bit goes with the theme. But let’s look clearly at what we’re defending.
Comment by Barri Husseini Obami on 4/13 @ 1:11 pm #
Dick fucking Celeste, the second worst governor (behind Boob Taft) in Ohio’s history, is the president of Colorado College??????
Jezuz Krist on a kabob!!!
We used to have a saying about the man: “Dick Celeste before he dicks you”.
Comment by serr8d on 4/13 @ 1:16 pm #
Ummmm…Darleen, you still have that link messed up. Fixed it more…
Comment by Darleen on 4/13 @ 1:17 pm #
Patrick
I know what I’m defending … a couple of young college males who did a parody in line with what progessives thing about non-leftist white males. May have they pushed the envelope with the rifle bit? One has to both ignore the rest of the flier, the boys’ intent and elevate what they are parodying as sacrosanct.
And vis a vis Virginia Tech … there was NO rifle involved. So referring to that and other recent shootings as an “excuse” is particularly lame.
These are people who want the word “gun” Bowdlerized out any campus speech, writing or book.
Comment by Darleen on 4/13 @ 1:18 pm #
serr8d
ROFL!!
hey…drink warning next time! [snicker, guffaw]
Comment by Jeffersonian on 4/13 @ 1:22 pm #
I disagree, Ken. It’s clear that these degrees will be in great demand in staffing the various inquisitions, tribunals, star chambers and other enforcers of left-wing political orthodoxy. I’m holding out for a spot as Central Scrutinizer, myself.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 4/13 @ 1:24 pm #
That would be Central Scrutinizer (linky?)
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 1:32 pm #
elevate what they are parodying as sacrosanct
Um, no one does not.
And where are you pulling this Virginia Tech and six-year-old kid stuff from?
I think they would have been better off going more over-the-top there. Like tanks or nukes or something. But then those wouldn’t have the same personal targeting undertones that both the Vagina Dentata and sniper rifle bits have.
Comment by Joan of Argghh! on 4/13 @ 1:37 pm #
Over the top, Patrick?
Like, “of course vaginas don’t have teeth. Look at the condition of the gums!”
Comment by Rob Crawford on 4/13 @ 1:41 pm #
Where did they say that? What I read on that page is:
“Did You Know…?? The Barrett .60 Caliber sniper rifle has an effective range of 2000 meters?”
Anyone who reads a threat into that needs to have their threat detectors calibrated. Mind you, I’m speaking of someone who had to call campus security because some asshole in the dorm said “why don’t we just get a gun and shoot them,” referring to my roommate, my girlfriend, and myself.
Can you tell the difference between the two statements? If the first is a threat, then the show “Futureweapons” is a freaking cry for genocide.
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 1:42 pm #
JOA,
Like all such publications, The Monthly Rag cannot be parodied more successfully than it does itself.
Comment by guinsPen on 4/13 @ 1:46 pm #
@ #28
I thought the same, ’til I clicked @ comment #20.
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 1:47 pm #
Darleen,
I’ve rethought a bit of what I said earlier, and I think I made a mistake with the word “clearly”. Without a doubt you and I are both regarding what is going on “clearly”. Please substitute something like “critically”. My intent was to say that we should look at the sniper rifle reference hard.
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 1:48 pm #
Re comment #20.
Is that a man’s hand in the photo?
Comment by guinsPen on 4/13 @ 1:50 pm #
Man Hands !!!
Comment by CGHill on 4/13 @ 1:51 pm #
Ken: I like the headline - “What can you do with a minor or major in feminist and gender studies.” Let’s see, you can wait tables or become a barista, but ya ain’t getting a job with a real salary.
Jeffersonian: I disagree, Ken. It’s clear that these degrees will be in great demand in staffing the various inquisitions, tribunals, star chambers and other enforcers of left-wing political orthodoxy.
I suggest we reconcile these two viewpoints. Revised Ken:
“I like the headline - “What can you do with a minor or major in feminist and gender studies.” Let’s see, you can wait tables or become an enforcer of left-wing orthodoxy, but ya ain’t getting a job where you’ll accomplish anything actually worth doing.
“Unless you wait tables, that is.”
Comment by Carin on 4/13 @ 1:51 pm #
Humorless bitches. I thought it was pretty funny. Threatening, my ass.
Comment by CGHill on 4/13 @ 1:51 pm #
Never could get the hand of blockquotes around here.
Comment by CGHill on 4/13 @ 1:52 pm #
Remind me never to threaten Carin. (Not that I would, but, you know.)
Comment by Joan of Argghh! on 4/13 @ 1:54 pm #
Oh, I have no idea if the Monthly Rag said it, but I sure did!
:o)
And “tampires” will live in celebrated infamy, Dan. Gawd, but that made me laugh!
Comment by Rob Crawford on 4/13 @ 2:00 pm #
Why?
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 2:03 pm #
Rob C.
I would say that, given the nature of both “Did you know?” sections, there is an undeniable hostile component to both. A defense to the latter one (the sniper rifle bit), and I think it is a good one, is that it is in response to the first. By it’s very nature it assumes (properly, no doubt) hostile intent on the part of The Monthly Rag with the inclusion of the Vagina Dentata “explanation”. For me, going straight to the ultimate sniper rifle in riposte is a little far. It does not rise all the way to the level of “threat”, as in something someone needs to be afraid of. But they meant to tweak the Sisterhood with that and we all know it.
You point out that it’s different than a threat made in person. To that I say: duh! Of course it is.
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 2:04 pm #
Why not?
Comment by Great Mencken's Ghost on 4/13 @ 2:07 pm #
Well, you know, if we didn’t sit around in church clinging to our guns out of economic deprivation and ideological false consciousness, the very sight of one might not be so threatening to our social, moral and intellectual betters.
Nah.
Comment by Carin on 4/13 @ 2:10 pm #
My intent was to say that we should look at the sniper rifle reference hard.
Yes, we need to read between the lines. Examine the context. Interpret it as a statement that doesn’t exist outside of the grim reality of violence directed toward women.
But, first I’m distracted by YOUR statement. I need to look at something … HARD. A weapon. Why are you directing my attention, so pointedly (HARD) at a reference to a weapon.
I, for one, am offended.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 4/13 @ 2:10 pm #
One talks about castration anxiety, the other states a simple fact. Anyone who reads the line from “The Monthly Bag” as a threat must read the line from “The Monthly Rag” as a threat as well. If one of those is unacceptable, then both must be unacceptable.
To fixate on the presence of a rifle in one statement, and ignore the implication of bodily harm in the other is nonsensical.
Comment by Pablo on 4/13 @ 2:11 pm #
- And you go grab a Barrett where, exactly? Might as well have used the nuke bit for the realism of any perceived threat.
- Q. “What can you do with a minor or major in feminist and gender studies.â€Â
A. Get a girlfriend.
- I think the outrageous, shocking, frightening bit was the one at the bottom right:
We simply can’t have people disseminating such propaganda.
Comment by Carin on 4/13 @ 2:11 pm #
I mean, you may as well post a picture of your manhood on the internets.
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 2:17 pm #
To fixate on the presence of a rifle in one statement, and ignore the implication of bodily harm in the other is nonsensical.
I think I pointed that out…
And Carin, since when is meaning divorced from context? Did you read the other things I wrote?
Comment by Pablo on 4/13 @ 2:18 pm #
You might want to consider being threatened by it, Carin. You could be on your way to being appeased.
Comment by N. Dimitri, M.Div on 4/13 @ 2:18 pm #
Yes, parody is a little ketchup upon the steak of life. Indeed our cups overflow with mirthful riches. However, I fear the Dam has burst on that sense of propriety which young ladies must exude. Perhaps this country has gone red and is falling to the communists, at any rate there is now a stain and blot upon the image of this institution.
I do not wish to pad this letter, but cannot shield my displeasure. I must end my subscription to your periodical.
Please veryify this cancellation on my monthly bill. Or send a letter to my address.
Please do not contact for the next 5-7 days as we are having the painters in.
Also we have a leaky basement and I may be checking into the red roof in for a few days so do not be alarmed by the passage a few days required for a return message.
I am not attempting to string you along. I should respond within three weeks, certainly before hammock season.
Your Friend,
N. Dimitri, M. Div.
Comment by Pablo on 4/13 @ 2:19 pm #
Dateline, Colorado College…
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 2:20 pm #
Pablo, heh. True enough
Comment by Jim in KC on 4/13 @ 2:22 pm #
Guns are just guns, Patrick. There’s nothing any more inherently threatening about a sniper rifle than a Ferrari.
Comment by Carin on 4/13 @ 2:24 pm #
No, I totally agree. I see it. But, I can go one further. The use of the word HARD …it seemed really out of place, so I tried to figure out why you would use it. Now, who doesn’t see the connection between “hard” and the male sex? Duh. Thus, viola. I interpreted what you were saying.
And, no, I’m not interested.
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 2:29 pm #
There’s nothing any more inherently threatening about a sniper rifle than a Ferrari
Did you read both fliers?
Comment by Pablo on 4/13 @ 2:36 pm #
Have you seen this thing? With Barretts going for the better part of $10K, you’ve probably got much better odds of running into one of those…so to speak.
Of course, that could only be used for good, and guns are bad.
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 2:44 pm #
Pablo,
Ouch.
Comment by cranky-d on 4/13 @ 2:48 pm #
I think the fems are really riled up because the production values of the parody flier were better than theirs. Makes ‘em look sad, really.
Humorless prigs. Not surprising, really, given the climate that just offending someone’s sensibilities is reason for answering to a lawsuit, if not jail time in other countries. They fiddle while Rome is being slowly sacked by the barbarians.
Comment by Woy on 4/13 @ 2:51 pm #
You could join Peace Corps with that degree. They have loans that only women are allowed to have. You can’t complain or it’s Obama and your fired.
Aren’t the dems having a big thing in Colorado?
Comment by cranky-d on 4/13 @ 2:53 pm #
BTW, women, here’s a better way to prevent rape.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 4/13 @ 2:59 pm #
“Comment by Dan Collins on 4/13 @ 12:11 pm #
I mean, that’s like . . . tampires!”
What did one lesbian vampire say to the other lesbian vampire?
“See you in 28 days.”
Comment by Woy on 4/13 @ 3:00 pm #
claims and you knews…….
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 3:10 pm #
Indeed, cranky-d, Berettas work better than Barretts, one would think.
Comment by Cave Bear on 4/13 @ 3:35 pm #
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 3:10 pm #
“Indeed, cranky-d, Berettas work better than Barretts, one would think.”
Depends on the application. If you are looking to send some jihadi douchebag to his 72 goats from 1500 yards, the Barrett would definitely be your preferred weapon.
On the other hand, if you are wanting to dispatch a rapist from a considerably closer range, the Beretta would do, although I think for something that a lady could carry in her purse, that Lady Smith .38 would be preferable. I recommend Federal Hydro-Shok or Winchester Silvertip loads.
Comment by Rusty on 4/13 @ 3:45 pm #
First of all it’s a reference to a gun and not the article itself. Secondly it was referenced with no threatening human agency, as in “With a Barret I can kill that bitch out to 2000 meters.” When taken along with the chainsaw and human wheelbarrow imagery it’s clear there is no implied threat. You guys really need to get a sense of humor.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 4/13 @ 3:48 pm #
Unbelieveable.
How could a woman get so debased in hate as to write this crap?
First Amendment? What is that? SHUT THE F. UP, YOU ARE HURTING MY STUPID FEELINGS!
We are screwed when assholes like this are actually given credence.
Comment by Salt Lick on 4/13 @ 3:56 pm #
By what rationale does Colorado College deem the parody flier “threatening?â€Â
I can guarantee what threatened them most was a vision of fat,ugly women baring their pendulus breasts before national news cameras in front of the admin building. Administrators are all about keeping the funding coming in.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 4/13 @ 4:06 pm #
Well, you know free speech is just a tool of the oppressors.
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 4:28 pm #
Depends on the application
“AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.”
Comment by phreshone on 4/13 @ 5:02 pm #
If you’re the administration, the “Glass Ceiling???” segment is particularly troubling. Because facts counter to the meta-narrative make it look like the students are wasting $44k / year.
Because ensuring another generation of the agrieved is the only way the entire country will be able to experience LA style waitstaff.
Comment by Enoch_Root on 4/13 @ 5:04 pm #
I am sorry, but since I can’t post the Boobs knock-knock joke on here, can I instead tell maybe the greatest joke of all time?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 4/13 @ 5:22 pm #
How about just posting the punchline?
Like…..
“That’s funny, I don’t remember eating that!”
Comment by Jim in KC on 4/13 @ 5:31 pm #
Yeah, I read ‘em both, Patrick; I don’t see your point.
Did you know? The Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorana has 620 hp and a top speed of near 200 mph.
Think about the kinetic energy involved, and tell me, if we’re worried about potential misuse, why that’s not scary. I have a bunch of guns, and they’re not at all threatening. They’re just lumps of metal that sit there, all boring and shit.
Just because some people have an irrational fear of guns doesn’t mean I have to honor that silliness by pretending to care when they get all bent our of shape.
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 5:32 pm #
Enoch_Root,
Why can’t you do both?
Comment by Patrick on 4/13 @ 5:35 pm #
Oh, and this, from Robinson is undoubtedly true, and totally wrong:
“The whole process was a punishment. I was subjected to an ideological witch hunt and interrogated about my political beliefs beyond what was in the satire.”
Comment by Carin on 4/13 @ 5:46 pm #
Guns … cars … what does it matter? We know they are merely extensions for your penis. And, obviously, you (men) have a desire to kill us with your penis.
Or something like that. I’m not sure. It’s been a long time since I took those feminist courses in college.
Comment by Carin on 4/13 @ 5:47 pm #
I got a joke (I think I told this one - years ago- here):
Why do brides always walk down the isle with a smile on their face?
Comment by MayBee on 4/13 @ 5:56 pm #
why?
Comment by Enoch_Root on 4/13 @ 6:00 pm #
N. O’Brian - as you wish… do not confuse with Carin’s joke above. Sorry to interlope, Carin.
here is the punch-line: “because they think men care!”
Comment by Enoch_Root on 4/13 @ 6:02 pm #
Patrick - because it would be insensitive/threatening to mention BOOBS in this thread… especially the way I tell it.
Comment by steveaz on 4/13 @ 6:14 pm #
Darleen’s dead right: when a Post-Modern Milly accuses you of “Anger,” it’s your warning that you’re on the threshold of being accused of a hate-crime.
In fact, even if you simply ignore the accusing person and go on about your life, the fact that you once were “angry” at that person can implicate you if, say, the person were in an entrapping sort of mood!
(And let’s face it, who among our adolescents’ isn’t on occasion.)
Too be sure, your “Anger” professed and recorded IS, to many, the real crime: their own overwrought focus on a perceived emotion arguably belies that fact.
Comment by steveaz on 4/13 @ 6:15 pm #
Darleen’s dead right: when a Post-Modern Milly accuses you of “Anger,” it’s your warning that you’re on the threshold of being accused of a hate-crime.
In fact, even if you simply ignore the accusing person and go on about your life, the fact that you once were “angry” at that person can implicate you if, say, the person were in an entrapping sort of mood!
(And let’s face it, who among our adolescents isn’t on occasion.)
Too be sure, your “Anger” professed and recorded IS, to many, the real crime: their own overwrought focus on a perceived emotion arguably belies that fact.
Comment by Cowboy on 4/13 @ 6:16 pm #
Enoch:
By not mentioning BOOBS, you are threatening my constitutional right to a sense of security. Because the mere thought of a world without BOOBS is both frightening and mind numbingly depressing.
Now I must go grip my gun and my Bible tightly.
…and think of BOOBS!!!!
Comment by Enoch_Root on 4/13 @ 6:18 pm #
Cowboy - sorry bout that man. But it is better to not be bitter when you’re thinking BOOBS
Look, I am glad your here, cause I wanted to know if I could turn off my car yet… it’s still running from this morning.
Comment by Cowboy on 4/13 @ 6:37 pm #
I suppose so, Enoch. Tell you what though, if you feel guilty about not doing your part to advance global warming, drown polar bears and penguins, raise the sea level, and all that other stuff, I’m selling a new line of carbon onsets here at Cowboy Enterprises!
For the low low price of $19.99 you too can be a member of the corporatocracy!
Comment by Rusty on 4/13 @ 6:43 pm #
Besides. Most of the chicks on campus that are into that wimmins stuff are butt ugly. And got bad attitudes.
Comment by McGehee on 4/13 @ 8:32 pm #
“President Ross Perot.”
Comment by McGehee on 4/13 @ 8:33 pm #
“…in bed.”
Comment by Bozoer Rebbe on 4/13 @ 8:55 pm #
The Monthly Rag (which last time I checked is a play on a crude reference to menstruation  and any male who uses such a reference is liable to have a murder of feminists after him demanding blood)
Blood? Brilliant, simply brilliant.
They have every right to create a parody. But they chose to do so in what I believe was an irresponsible manner. They posted their parody anonymously, which is a violation of a community standard. And second, they apparently thought that featuring the sniper rifle specs and references to guns, chainsaws and survival rates was merely a macho expression; they didn’t consider how it might be misconstrued as a threat to personal safety on campus.
~ President Dick Celeste ~
They have every right to create a newsletter. They apparently thought that featuring castration was merely a feminist expression; they didn’t consider how it might be misconstrued as a threat to personal safety on campus.
~ President Dick Celeste ~
Dick, heh, heh, Beavis, he said dick.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 4/13 @ 8:59 pm #
- For the low low price of $19.99 you too can be a member of the corporatocracy!
- Do I get My own fuel “adcount” card too? Because you know, paying more at the pump really impresses the wimmins, especially those chicks with hairy legs they call femindouche bags.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 4/13 @ 9:48 pm #
- BTW, I noticed an “item” on the “Rag” flier, aside from the “castration” veiled threat. Am I reading paranoic delusions into the word “Packing”, cause I’ll tell you what hombres, where I come from “packing” is a very specific term, and it doesn’t mean shoving a sock in your shorts.
- If you look over the “Bag” flier, aside from the descriptor bag, you’ll see what really set the support hose, warts, and mustache set off I think.
- At the very bottom is a Hazmat notice that probably applies equally well to Bi-Polars, and any overbearing lunatic bitch that can’t get over the fact she was born one dick short of a jockstrap.
- Remember Komrads. Dissent shall not be tolerated!
Comment by John Lennon on 4/13 @ 10:22 pm #
Happiness is a warm gun.
HEY! What are doing with those handcuffs!
HELP!
I am being oppressed!
Comment by Darleen on 4/13 @ 11:20 pm #
#73 Patrick
Why is Robinson wrong?
If the price of un-pc humor is being threatened by your College admins, interrogated, and held hostage to the system until they decide to suspend any further punishment … such an example is going to have the chilling result of many other students thing “eff that sh*t. I’m just going to keep my head low, genuflect in the direction of the Womyn’s Studies Dept. and muddle through”
And we also know that the whole episode is recorded in these guys files along with the “found guilty of violation of the code of student conduct - re: threat of violence”. THAT little bon mot is never going to get expunged.
Comment by Merovign on 4/14 @ 12:06 am #
I can just see, after this is over, the women’s studies prof goes back to their class, opens their lesson plan, and defines “discrimination” for the students as “one group that has political power taking advantage of another that does not through arbitrary and preferential rules, or the arbitrary and preferential application of rules…”
Comment by Pablo on 4/14 @ 12:11 am #
Oh, you’re just bitter.
Comment by MC on 4/14 @ 1:05 am #
My intent was to say that we should look at the sniper rifle reference hard.
Look, keep your sexual proclivities to yourself. You might get turned on by sniper rifle references, it’s a free country an all, but be hard looking at ‘em just yourself OK?
Comment by Greg on 4/14 @ 3:52 am #
Ooh. Ooh! 1632 reference by MC! I believe it was the one where Harry Lefferts rescues Tom Simpson and gang from the Tower of London.
Comment by Cowboy on 4/14 @ 4:03 am #
BBH:
- Do I get My own fuel “adcount†card too? Because you know, paying more at the pump really impresses the wimmins, especially those chicks with hairy legs they call femindouche bags.
Sure, as long as you drive an SUV (preferrably a Hummer) with a “Save the Whales” bumper sticker.*
*Which, as luck would have it, you get free with your first order of ten Cowboy Enterprises Carbon onsets!!!
Comment by Cowboy on 4/14 @ 4:04 am #
…uh, the sticker, not the SUV.
Comment by Cowboy on 4/14 @ 4:05 am #
…our valued customers in Indiana may substitute the blue “Environmental” license plate for the bumper sticker.
Comment by Cowboy on 4/14 @ 4:06 am #
Void where prohibited.
Like probably Rhode Island.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 4/14 @ 4:38 am #
Annie F’ing Sprinkle?
Unfortunately, now I need to go buy a new keyboard. The coffee didn’t mix well with my electronics.
Darleen, you are (dare I say it?) precious. I haven’t laughed like this since my crashing return to street urchin status.
Comment by amr on 4/14 @ 7:18 am #
The problem today is that we have dumbed down everything to its lowest common denominator such that if it offends anyone, as the sniper rifle bit did, then it is improper and the full weight of the “law†has to descend upon that group/individual. That is if the group/individual is from the other side of the political spectrum or is not of the minority class. And since almost anything can acquire a negative connotation some are doomed regardless of what they do to counter PC insults.
Comment by SGT Ted on 4/14 @ 7:30 am #
Listing the max effective range of a gun is merely listing a stat. It is not a threat, except in the minds of idiots who run universities. Allowing those morons to dictate acceptable speech is the problem, not the solution. The so;ution is parody, parody and more parody, especially he-man parody that exposes them for the authoritarian whacko’s that they are by making them lose their minds.
“Jamies Got a GUN!” BOO!
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 4/14 @ 7:51 am #
How about just posting the punchline?
“Who Cares?”
/my favorite joke.
Comment by M. Simon on 4/14 @ 7:56 am #
Mommy! Mommy! Halp! Them boys is makin fun of us.
And they said boobs. An they wuz lookin at us. Starin. The evil gayze.
Comment by Belvedere jones on 4/14 @ 7:59 am #
Insta-lanche
Comment by Mikee on 4/14 @ 8:01 am #
Parody, humor and ridicule work exceptionally well against authoritarian control freaks. That is why one of the best means of extricating oneself from a situation such as the students found themselves in, is to giggle uncontrollably during the hearings. Eventually any sane administrator will join in the giggles and the whole thing will go away. At least, that is how it worked for me when I was in college.
May I suggest that papering the entire campus with parody “Letters to Students” by “Universe President Dick Cilly” on subjects such as “Keeping Your Boy Friend’s Foreskin Clean” and other topics of student concern would go a far way toward ending this persecutional prosecution.
Comment by Eric on 4/14 @ 8:06 am #
After trolling Digg for awhile I realized why leftists find this kind of thing so offensive. They really have no sense of humor. Any of them - it’s not just the feminists. Their idea of funny is saying “Bush is dumb. hah hah”. If you make a joke, no matter how inocuous, you’re in for a five paragraph essay on why it isn’t funny.
Comment by Philo on 4/14 @ 8:14 am #
The Monthly Rag already reads like a parody.
Comment by Karl on 4/14 @ 8:33 am #
Insta-lanche!
Comment by Dan_P from AZ on 4/14 @ 9:00 am #
“On the other hand, if you are wanting to dispatch a rapist from a considerably closer range, the Beretta would do, although I think for something that a lady could carry in her purse, that Lady Smith .38 would be preferable. I recommend Federal Hydro-Shok or Winchester Silvertip loads.”
Both are “fine ammo”.
Silvertips are in my .45 Long Colt “cowboy gun” for bear and cougar protection on solitary hkes.
But, I think “Remington Golden Saber” hollow point conveys “a better message” to a potential rapist.
I recommend they give him the 9mm 147 grain “load” between his legs.
WHACK !
WHACK ! !
WHACK ! ! !
You GO, GIRL ! ! ! !
I see job potential in my future, teaching
“Womyns’ Studies 101, Self-Protection from Raging Males”.
“No text, ear protection and 1000 rounds required”.
Comment by Jack on 4/14 @ 9:03 am #
Just to keep things accurate, the Barett is 0.50 cal, not 0.60, which would be a destructive device under NFA 1934, and hence, subject the owner to background check, tax stamp and the same regulation as private ownership of a machine gun.
The rifle sure is sweet. Maybe some competitors could chime in with barrel twist-rate, optimum hand loads for 1000m competition, etc. Usual warnings on verifying strange loads picked up on the Net, etc. I’ve only fired one once and I must say that concentrating on breath control, sight picture, and trigger pull left me with a less than “locked in” bone-not-muscle hold and the kick was so hard that the three guys behind me were rolling on the dirt laughing when *I* recoiled about a foot.
%^). If you people are going to talk guns, do it right.
Consider yourself owned.
— gun using pacifist.
Comment by McGehee on 4/14 @ 9:31 am #
Sounds like my idea of an “E”-ticket ride, right there.
Comment by Korla Pundit on 4/14 @ 9:44 am #
This is where the term feminazis comes in handy.
Comment by ginsocal on 4/14 @ 10:17 am #
“This is a FEMINIST book store, sir! There IS no humor section!”
Comment by Patrick on 4/14 @ 10:38 am #
Darleen ,
@71. I’m not saying Robinson is wrong, it’s wrong what happened to him. And what kind of kangaroo court could have found them guilty? I’ve tried to argue that, while it’s possible to see a threat there, there was no real threat.
Please stop assuming I’m an opponent.
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[...] the military. More illiberalism: castration is hilarious, making fun of people who think so, not so much. I was reminded of this verse: Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man [...]
Comment by DADvocqte on 4/14 @ 12:20 pm #
As governor of Ohio, Dick Celeste had no problem with women who killed men. He released them from prison. He’s just continuing his male hating ways.
Comment by Pablo on 4/14 @ 1:44 pm #
Cowboy, if it’s prohibited in RI, you just haven’t paid the right people.
Comment by moptop on 4/14 @ 6:27 pm #
How did those guys from “BatteredHusband” know so much about my wife?
Comment by Glitchus on 4/14 @ 8:33 pm #
A “murder of feminists” heh heh, I’ve also heard of a “smarm of candidates” and a “corruption of politiciansâ€Â. All good ways to describe a herd mentality.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 4/14 @ 10:17 pm #
Our Universities are alive and well.
I posted a comment last night (and it was NOT over the top, just reasonably against how the decision was made)), and it is still waiting to be “moderated”.
What do we want to bet that it will be waiting to be “moderated” long after I am dead?
Comment by -=FormerRealPrankster=- on 4/14 @ 11:22 pm #
“Patrick - because it would be insensitive/threatening to mention BOOBS in this thread… especially the way I tell it.”
This is the problem these days. A lack of distinction. ‘Boobs’ are blobs of fat attached to bulldyke fat bitches, who, lacking any nipple definition, make little impact on a man’s libidio except for any other blobs of fat. And just as ‘Boobs’ are not ‘Tits’ (a concave curve linked to a convex curve at the point at which a darkened, texturized circle juts out like an erection or a ripe blackberry), simple give-and-take ‘parody’ of weird girls will make weird girls and older women who used to be weird girls (ooooo, I have a sex organ just like cute girls do, and men do too, except instead of having to function, I can just lay back, since my “sex organ” is actually part of the air instead of part of my body).
The reason these poor kids got in so much trouble is because they didn’t have any balls. A mere “parody” poster, which they STUPIDLY signed in some way as to get punished?! How about, instead of a parody that USES instead of abuses the rules?
Hire strippers, in the Art School department, to act as “nude models” and in “tribute” to Georgia O’Keefe, you hold a competition for best flower-like vagina pastels?
Or how about re-naming a flaccid penis a Penina and an erect on as a Penata, and posting ANONYMOUS round stickers that have a dash between the two, and include a fat ugly girl next to the Penina and a cute girl next to the Penata?
Then, how about mixing fiberglass dust (1/32″) with epoxy and spraying it all over the stalls of every girl’s bathroom on campus?
Why?
Gentlemen, what ARE the four pillars?
Studying. Getting laid. Falling in love once, then twice, but never again. And PRANKS that ridicule UPTIGHT UGLY PEOPLE by a factor of TEN to a HUNDRED.
This prank barely registered on the Prank Meter. No wonder it was within the realm of bureaucrats to deal with.
A level TWO (remember 10-100 is much better) prank would have been to wait a month, and organize your OWN “male feminist” gathering, in which you “severely criticize” images of women in the mass media, by passing out reproductions of 1959 compared to 1999 Playboy centerfolds, and how Industry has made “normal women” unattractive to men, which actually just isn’t the actual case. Then use a slide show to show porn movies, and “demonstrate” awful “male stereotypes” by having a keg party on stage, over-done by throwing glass mugs at the wall and having the guys start sobbing, quoting love poetry.
That week, put up (and don’t get caught, Darwin Award idiots) stickers that say “liberate sexual demonization of busty jailbait!”
LSD-BJ.org
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