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| 2006-05-15 |
| Recently, feminists at Bucknell University sponsored an event that looked more like a Duke Lacrosse party than a celebration of feminist diversity. On March 8, Bucknell's so-called Feminist Majority - along with groups like the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, the Center for the Study of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, and the Office of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Awareness - paid $1,920 for a strip show at Bucknell. Billed as a "celebration of whore culture" the show was euphemistically titled the "Sex Workers Art Show." It featured a group of hookers, phone sex operators, smut writers, porn stars, and one woman who appeared via her 24-hour porn website. One of the acts included a woman stripping on a trapeze. Another featured a woman coming out wearing nothing but duct tape on her nipples and panties while running through the audience to “Mission Impossible” music and looking for clothes. While another woman was doing a strip tease, a large man was rapping about "ho ass ni**ers" - like Kirby Puckett and Harriet Tubman – and, just for added shock value, lubing himself. What made the event even worse in the eyes of some campus conservatives was last year’s response to the Conservatives Club’s hosting of Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers. Her trip to campus to talk about "equity feminism" was poorly received by some of Bucknell’s feminist leaders. When the Women’s and Gender Studies Department (who funded the sex workers) was asked if they would like to cosponsor the Sommers lecture, first they said they lacked funding... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 Shouldn't it be "prostitute culture?" I always thought whores just gave it away, or maybe that was sluts? Been a while since I was in college. Best seven years of my life........ |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-05-15 13:07 |
| #6 It's degrading only if MEN see it and are turned on. That's disgusting! The horror! |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-05-15 13:05 |
| #5 A few years ago I thought they were bitching about how all this shit was "degrading to women"? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-15 13:03 |
| #4 Bucknell feminists a bunch of skanky tarts? Yawn... Sleaze has a long and honored history at Bucknell: back in the 60's it was townie girls pulling trains in the Mattress Room at Sigma Alpha Mu (CBS President Les Moonves's old fraternity); today it's the WomenÂ’s and Gender Studies Department hosting a gala celebrating Whore Culture. Nothing's changed. |
| Posted by: Grolusing Spamble8764 2006-05-15 11:50 |
| #3 Talk about the inmates being in charge of the asylum! Man am I glad I'm not in academia any more. |
| Posted by: Spot 2006-05-15 11:45 |
| #2 WomenÂ’s and Gender Studies Department Center for the Study of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Office of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Awareness Doesn't get any wankier than this - and I don't doubt there are many more which aren't "feminist" programs. All alums should take a look at what's changed since their days and reconsider those donations. They're probably funding many such bastions of worthless PCism. To clean it up and force some common sense, hit them where it will hurt most, funding. |
| Posted by: Jomock Hupavise5411 2006-05-15 11:41 |
| #1 "While another woman was doing a strip tease, a large man was rapping about "ho ass ni**ers" - like Kirby Puckett and Harriet Tubman – and, just for added shock value, lubing himself." Wow. Feminism's come a long way, hasn't it? |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-05-15 11:21 |