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Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
Saturday, August 31, 2013
The Worst Op-Ed of the Month
Competition for this honor is always stiff. But here is August's winner.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Modern college life; women make further strides towards equality with men
Caution: This post is rated PG 13 and contains strong language and adult themes.
I was wrong. For pretty much my entire life I believed rather chauvinistically, that women were incapable of descending to the same levels of classless lowbrow behavior one typically associates with college fraternities, of which I have no personal experience, and drunken sailors, of which I do have some experience. The evidence of my error can be found in a recent news report, which I decline to name, quote, or link but which has made the rounds on the internet for those determined to find it.
It concerns a certain female student at Duke University who compiled (using power-point) a senior "thesis" on sex in college in which she recounts in graphic detail more than a dozen of her sexual "hook-ups" during her tenure at Duke. Not stopping there she named names and attached pictures of the alleged "subjects" of her 'study.' The icing on the cake is found in the conclusion of her report where she grades the young men (mostly college athletes) on such criteria as their performance, physical (cough cough) attributes, and other sultry details. Though she claims the whole thing was a joke it has been posted on the web and has gone viral.
One wonders what this young woman's father thinks, having likely coughed up in excess of $50,000 for her education only to discover that his daughter is a woman of easy virtue (I had another word in mind, which may yet appear) who has seen fit to advertise her numerous liaisons to the entire world. How proud he must be of the glass floor his daughter has shattered in her descent into the gutter.
It seems we live in an age where the internet has effectively replaced the bathroom wall and barracks room gossip I recall from my days in the Navy. But when considering the harm done to other people's reputations, even if she cares not for her own, this is shocking even by today's extremely low moral standards. Of course a very compelling point could be made that the young men who have been named to either their glory or humiliation brought this upon themselves. I have often lamented that English does not contain a male specific equivalent for "slut" (there's that word).
For my own part this reinforces a rather strongly held conviction that it is time to rethink the war waged so aggressively on single gender colleges and universities.
I was wrong. For pretty much my entire life I believed rather chauvinistically, that women were incapable of descending to the same levels of classless lowbrow behavior one typically associates with college fraternities, of which I have no personal experience, and drunken sailors, of which I do have some experience. The evidence of my error can be found in a recent news report, which I decline to name, quote, or link but which has made the rounds on the internet for those determined to find it.
It concerns a certain female student at Duke University who compiled (using power-point) a senior "thesis" on sex in college in which she recounts in graphic detail more than a dozen of her sexual "hook-ups" during her tenure at Duke. Not stopping there she named names and attached pictures of the alleged "subjects" of her 'study.' The icing on the cake is found in the conclusion of her report where she grades the young men (mostly college athletes) on such criteria as their performance, physical (cough cough) attributes, and other sultry details. Though she claims the whole thing was a joke it has been posted on the web and has gone viral.
One wonders what this young woman's father thinks, having likely coughed up in excess of $50,000 for her education only to discover that his daughter is a woman of easy virtue (I had another word in mind, which may yet appear) who has seen fit to advertise her numerous liaisons to the entire world. How proud he must be of the glass floor his daughter has shattered in her descent into the gutter.
It seems we live in an age where the internet has effectively replaced the bathroom wall and barracks room gossip I recall from my days in the Navy. But when considering the harm done to other people's reputations, even if she cares not for her own, this is shocking even by today's extremely low moral standards. Of course a very compelling point could be made that the young men who have been named to either their glory or humiliation brought this upon themselves. I have often lamented that English does not contain a male specific equivalent for "slut" (there's that word).
For my own part this reinforces a rather strongly held conviction that it is time to rethink the war waged so aggressively on single gender colleges and universities.
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