Rutgers considering a mascot change. Political correctness at its silliest......

[CTOkie]

The Rutgers Student Assembly has decided to give its blue-eyed fair-skinned knight mascot some new "friends".....the university will add homosexual, female, transgender, and multiple racial incarnations of the Scarlet Knight to more accurately represent the student body.
Give....me....a....break.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Oh come on, you're making this up.

Then again, you probably aren't.
Oh my...

 

[CTOkie]

Oh come on, you're making this up.

Then again, you probably aren't.
Oh my...

It's in the news......and shouldn't college students be focused on things that REALLY matter ?

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Well, delete, ban, whatever, but what's really galling is this little group comprises less than two percent of the population, yet it seems like they get a disproportional amount of the media coverage.
What, are we supposed to have straight guilt now?

(bless their hearts)

 

[CTOkie]

Rutgers' student body is 53% female, 47% male. Evidently females are more "sensitive" to the "minorities". But to me, this isn't being sensitive....it's being ridiculous.

 

[Section22Sooner]

Rutgers' student body is 53% female, 47% male. Evidently females are more "sensitive" to the "minorities". But to me, this isn't being sensitive....it's being ridiculous.

Well, if they're going to be totally inclusive, they need to add Pedophile Pete, Bestiality Bart and Longhorn-fan Larry.

 

[Plainosooner]

The Rutgers Student Assembly has decided to give its blue-eyed fair-skinned knight mascot some new "friends".....the university will add homosexual, female, transgender, and multiple racial incarnations of the Scarlet Knight to more accurately represent the student body.
Give....me....a....break.

And they all have to ask permission before hugging each other.

If OU were to ever do anything like this, I mean besides the stupid horses, you guys will not have to worry about reading my rhetoric any more. I would cease to be a Sooner fan.

Frankly, I'm ready to secede.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

You're right 22.
Watch...eventually that feely good Ninth court will allow some jerk to legally marry his golden retriever. It'll happen.

 

[CTOkie]

You're right 22.
Watch...eventually that feely good Ninth court will allow some jerk to legally marry his golden retriever. It'll happen.

....but only if a veterinarian could trim the dog's claws and clean up its breath.

 

[Schoonerman]

You're right 22.
Watch...eventually that feely good Ninth court will allow some jerk to legally marry his golden retriever. It'll happen.

I would like to "unlike" this comment for it's sheer ridiculousness.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Well, I would delete it but, it's been quoted twice.

 

[Section22Sooner]

Your comment isn't so ridiculous.

 

[barkingwater2000]

And they all have to ask permission before hugging each other.

If OU were to ever do anything like this, I mean besides the stupid horses, you guys will not have to worry about reading my rhetoric any more. I would cease to be a Sooner fan.

Frankly, I'm ready to secede.

I would feel the same way Plaino. Hopefully I'll be dead and gone before anything like that happens.

 

[Section22Sooner]

I would feel the same way Plaino.

So... there is an up-side to all this.

 

[CTOkie]

I can understand a movement to change a name like the "Redskins", or OU doing away with "Little Red" in 1970 when I was in my third year at OU, or Stanford changing from "Indians" to.....a tree (?)...but this latest move by Rutgers is over the top.

 

[roygbell]

The day the do something like this is the day they can sell my season tickets to someone else.
I am sickened by all this sensitivity PC crapola.

 

[CTOkie]

The day the do something like this is the day they can sell my season tickets to someone else.
I am sickened by all this sensitivity PC crapola.

The school in Houston that my brother and I attended from 1956-60 had a Confederate soldier as its mascot, the St. John's Rebels....now they're the "Mavericks"....and now we no longer care.

 

[sybarite]

Am I the only progressive, liberal on this board?

 

[Schoonerman]

Am I the only progressive, liberal on this board?

You're not alone, but you are vastly outnumbered if you live in OK or TX.

 

[Section22Sooner]

Am I the only progressive, liberal on this board?

There are widely varying social stances and beliefs here. We're Sooners-first on this message board.

 

[iasooner1]

You're not alone, but you are vastly outnumbered if you live in OK or TX.

Or anywhere else in America (according to Gallup as of 2013 when lib self-identification reached a high of 23%)

 

[Section22Sooner]

Or anywhere else in America (according to Gallup as of 2013 when lib self-identification reached a high of 23%)

69.4% of all statistics are made up.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

That's right, and curiously enough, the word 'gullible' is not in the dictionary.

 

[iasooner1]

Yeah I know; also the maxim: "statistics lie and liars use them" may be in play,,,

 

[Plainosooner]

Am I the only progressive, liberal on this board?

No, but it explains a lot.

 

[barkingwater2000]

There are widely varying social stances and beliefs here. We're Sooners-first on this message board.

Speak for yourself

 

[K2C Sooner]

Speak for yourself

We all know that. You're a yankee fan first.

 

[Section22Sooner]

There are widely varying social stances and beliefs here. We're Sooners-first on this message board.

Speak for yourself

You're right Barkingwater. Please allow me to correct my error. Here goes...

There are widely varying social stances and beliefs here. Most are here because we love the Sooners. We find common ground with Sooner sports. But like any community, there is the fringe element like Barkingwater who are here to do nothing more than stir things up.

 

[barkingwater2000]

You're right Barkingwater. Please allow me to correct my error. Here goes...

There are widely varying social stances and beliefs here. Most are here because we love the Sooners. We find common ground with Sooner sports. But like any community, there is the fringe element like Barkingwater who are here to do nothing more than stir things up.

Give it a rest 22. That got old about 2 years ago.

 

[Medic007]

Give it a rest 22. That got old about 2 years ago.

So did this...

Speak for yourself

Maybe a more intelligent response on your part would get responses that suit your fancy. Just a thought.

 

[barkingwater2000]

So did this...



Maybe a more intelligent response on your part would get responses that suit your fancy. Just a thought.

whatever you say Medic

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Well, I'm getting better with posts that may, on their face infuriate me.
I just tell myself it's nothing I can't ignore if I just put my mind to it.

(I just figure they're letting off a little esteem)