UConn’s Logo Inspires Rape Culture or Something
The university of Connecticut’s wolf logo is the only reason it wins basketball games according to at least one feminist student. Also, it’s all about rape culture or something.
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.
With logo feminist says intimidates women and empowers rape culture, UConn sweeps NCAAs
The men’s and women’s basketball teams at the University of Connecticut pulled off quite a feat this week: They both won their respective NCAA Division I basketball tournaments. This impressive deed has been accomplished just once before in history (at the University of Connecticut in 2004).
Why did UConn win it all – twice in a couple days – this year? Obviously, the cause was the school’s new logo: A terrifying, vicious, red-tongued Husky dog that replaced the school’s cuter, grey tongue-wagging Husky dog.
The new logo was unveiled last April to mixed-to-negative reviews.
One student, self-proclaimed feminist Carolyn Luby, harshly criticized the redesigned, meaner logo because, she suggested, it will surely intimidate women and empower rape culture.
UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma had 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 her response, presented as an open letter to UConn President Susan Herbst, 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.”
With logo feminist says intimidates women and empowers rape culture, UConn sweeps NCAAs (The Daily Caller)
Comments
My suggestion for UConn:
State that the mascot is female.
I don’t see this in a feminist way. But I agree with her that the new logo is negative. As the article said, many gave this logo mixed-to-negative reviews – but they were ignored.
I see this in a concerned citizen type of way. Changing the logo to a vicious dog implying “don’t mess with me” appears to glorify the thug culture which resonates through sports, the media and certain “musical” groups favored by our current leaders.
Further, based on campus treatment of students free speech rights, the logo impliedly threatens students that the administration or government or favored campus groups will be ready to pounce if you don’t follow the liberal thought police.