Racist?
 

It's just been reported on the radio that some university students union or other here in the UK, banned Mexican style sombrero hats and fake moustaches from a fancy dress event. Reason? It's racist. Hmmm....

A couple of weeks ago, Swansea University students union banned the university Pole Fitness Society. Reason? Pole fitness is demeaning to women. Hmmm....

Huge fucking holes in these reasonings. If it can even be described as reasoning, and not towing some stupid lefty line, handed out by some petty officious wanker just looking for another reason to control what people think, how they behave.

I prefer white sheep. Does that make me a racist? And I can't stand those fucking Alpacas, they should never have been allowed into the country.
And why is black shoe polish called "Cherry Blossom"? Has anyone ever seen black cherry blossom? :skull-big

What he means is he doesn't stand tall enough for fucking an Alpaca.

Rotter, you're singing my song.

The PC Police, as we call them. If I want to say Merry Christmas, I will effing well say it, and if someone is offended they don't have to listen.

Now they are even mucking about with the names of sports teams. The Washington Redskins have had that name since 1932 and now some middle-class white folks from the suburbs with nothing better to do are offended. None of the actual "redskins" I know are offended. They could care less.

They can all go piss up a rope and leave the rest of us alone!

Some columnist in The Sun today suggested that it may be offensive because sombreros and moustaches may be an old fashioned stereotype of Mexicans. He suggested instead that anyone wanting to attend a party in Mexican themed costume should turn up either with a gun in one hand and a bag of cocaine in the other, or dripping wet in their underwear as if they'd just swam across the Rio Grand!

Sierra, there is an Native American organisation also calling for that as well.

As for banning Merry Christmas, has anyone actually been asked to not use the term? Or is that another urban legend put about by people who think anyone who detests racism is in fact just being PC...

Pole fitness is actually awesome :)

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The pole fitness thing pisses me off. I have 2 very dear friends, they're married and pole is their life. Both of them have become amazing because of the hard work they put in it, and it really is a family at the pole studio they go to.
Both women are a hundred times stronger than they were before, and they would be outraged at this sort of thing. As they say- it's not demeaning to women. It's not stripping. It's showing great athletic ability & it's purely an art form.

Apparently some people get their fuckin panties in a bunch 'cause they're jealous that polers have more strength than they could ever dream of having themselves. That's all it comes off as.

I agree that pole fitness is not demeaning in any way. But then, I don't think stripping is demeaning to women either. Hell, strippers probably have more control in their work environment than women in most other professions!

I for one am glad to work at a grocery store where you are not commanded to use "happy holidays" around Christmas time.

I'm sure the vast majority of people celebrate Christmas. If someone is offended and I'm not working I'd tell them to get the fuck over it and get their head out of their ass.

If I am working then I'd ask what they celebrated and go with what they say.

Mhmm. The whole "merry christmas" thing is ridiculous, too. (meant to touch on this in my earlier reply but forgot.)

I'm not religious in the slightest, and I say merry christmas. Merry christmas, happy holidays, happy kwanzaa- I don't care what anyone says to me. It's what THEY want to say.
....christmas was never religious in my mind, anyway. *shrug*

I think the Christmas business is more of a Septic thing. Every year on another forum they have whole threads about "the war on Christmas". It is a rather stupid forum though.

I have noticed in the last few years more of a tendency for "Seasons Greetings" rather than "Merry Christmas" being hung up in shops and wotnot. Then again, I am a paranoid bigot, so I might be imagining that. ;)

Pole fitness and pole dancing clubs aren't the same thing. The students union official who started this nonsense was very quick to make the same link, it was part of her justification for banning the society. Although if a girl wants to go and make several hundred quid a night cavorting around in a bikini getting tips stuffed down her knickers, rather than wasting four years of her life at university getting a degree in something that employers don't want to give her a job for. Well, I can see how some fat, frumpy lefty heifer would get her own knickers in a twist at that! Especially if she completely lacked imagination and talent, but had a huge sense of self importance.

Stripping, not demeaning. Pole fitness, not demeaning. They're not the same thing though.

More university stupidity to follow as it arises.

Girl I put my cock in on a couple of occasions, runs a pole fitness school. Four years ago she was an overweight kept woman. She dumped the keeper, took pole fitness classes, got her teaching certificates, started working for someone else, and now has had her own business with a couple of employees and classes in several towns. She's 5' 2", weighs about 7 1/2 stone. She's strong. She can lift me up and I'm nearly twice her size!

I pity the bloke that ever tried to rape her, he'd have a huge fight on his hands. I suppose this is what is meant by demeaning? ;)

For the record, I agree- stripping is just another form of art. Why is it so wrong? It's no secret people want to look at nude women lol
If you can make THAT much money, why the hell not?!

I'd love to go to a nice, well kept...more sophisticated sort of strip/gentlemans club! I would find my favorite gal and give her my attention for the night.

The female body is a work of art, after all. ;)

And for fuck sake- on a few awkward, sleazy occasions I've been asked (and offered money) to strip. Not my thing, I always say no.
If I, of all people, can get guys to offer me money to see MY nude body, I can only imagine the cash you'd make lol

There are male strip clubs too. So to say that stripping is demeaning to women just shows how sheltered and naive the person is.

Yes, I know they're not the same thing at all, unlike the student union official. I was only responding to the quoted part of HMD's post above, which seemed to imply that pole fitness wasn't demeaning BECAUSE it wasn't stripping. And I've gotten to know HMD well enough that I'm pretty sure that's not what she meant to imply. I guess there's plenty of inarticulateness to go around! ;)

:skull-bee

Oh, and the "War on Christmas" is nothing more than a right-wing hoax to agitate their mindless followers. :p

Hear! Hear! :skull-bee :D

Cheers! Hell yeah. Sorry, guys. Can't compete with a cute woman. Lol