Friday, June 27, 2008

CC Trustees Nix Some Dudes' Parody   [Candace de Russy]

Colorado College’s Board of Trustees has gotten it wrong, says FIRE, in upholding the campus's finding that student Chris Robinson and another student wishing to remain anonymous violated CC’s “violence” policy for posting a flyer that parodied a flyer of the Feminist and Gender Studies program. FIRE continues to urge the CC leadership to remove the guilty verdict from the students’ files and to stand by its own pledges to protect free speech at the college.

Feminist antics get a pass at CC, whereas parody thereof is a no-go. Check out a few of the smarmy details:

In early 2008, a pseudonymous group called “the Feminist and Gender Studies Interns” produced and 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 [B****] Manifesto.

As a parody of “The Monthly Rag,” Robinson and a second student distributed a flyer called “The Monthly Bag” under the pseudonym “The Coalition of Some Dudes.” The flyer included references to “tough guy wisdom,” “chainsaw etiquette,” the shooting range of a sniper rifle, and a quotation about “female violence and abuse” of men from the website batteredmen.com.

06/27 11:56 AMShare