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My favorite quote from the below: "Personally, I’d say that if your biggest problem is that your school is offering too many ski trips, then you are probably doing just fine."
Colorado College Accused of ‘Body Shaming’ for Being Committed to Healthy Living
by KATHERINE TIMPF September 16, 2016 2:43 PM
A student at Colorado College wrote a piece claiming that the school’s commitment to a healthy lifestyle is actually a bad thing — because it’s body-shaming people, particularly men.
“Several aspects of the CC community such as numerous healthy eating habits, gym programs, and outdoor activities, foster a culture of body shaming even for male students,” Jade Pearl Frost, a senior who is a double major in feminist and gender studies and English, writes in a piece for the Feminist Wire.
“While I am not suggesting that these aspects are detrimental in and of themselves, I argue that the College values these things in ways that are overwhelming and exclusionary,” she adds.
First of all, she’s correct that “healthy eating habits, gym programs, and outdoor activities” are most certainly not “detrimental.” They are, in fact, this thing called “good.” It’s good that her school cafeteria has “an abundance of” healthy food options and “a renovated fitness center.” What would she rather have, a cafeteria that serves only bologna and cheese sandwiches on white bread and a dirty garbage gym with a bunch of broken machines, just so overweight kids wouldn’t feel bad about themselves?
Her attitude in this piece is one that has become all-too common — one that focuses on victimization rather than empowerment. The right attitude would be to say that it’s great that those students who are out of shape have so many campus resources to help them change that if they wanted to.
By the way, the fact that they are, indeed, campus resources — that is, available to all students — makes her claim that they are “exclusionary” completely illogical. After all, “available to all students” is the opposite of “exclusionary,” and it shouldn’t be surprising that nowhere in her piece does she provide a single, concrete example of how they are “exclusionary” other than to say that to say that there’s “an unspoken rule” in the gym “that the cardio section is for the feminine and the weight room is for the masculine.”
First of all, I’d argue that her observation that more women use the cardio section and more men use weight room is probably due to the fact that women just generally are more interested in cardio, and men just generally are more interested in weight-training. In any case, calling it “exclusionary” when, as she herself admits, “the fitness center is open to all genders and everyone a part of the CC community” is factually incorrect. What is the school supposed to do? Force female students to get buff as hell when they don’t want to? Force dudes to get drop their weights and hop on a stationary bike?
In her discussion of fitness-masculinity issues, she also laments the fact that “if the male student doesn’t participate in outdoor activities such as Winterfest and BreakOut Trips, then they are seen as not having body management.” Personally, I’d say that if your biggest problem is that your school is offering too many ski trips, then you are probably doing just fine.
Other than ski trips, another program that Frost sees as problematic is the “Tigers Don’t Waste” program, which discourages students from wasting food.
“I remember when it first started, there was a lean male student sitting in a chair where students were scraping their plates and putting them back in the kitchen,” she writes. “The man would check each student’s plate and give them a sticker if they had no food waste and would give a not-so-gentle reminder to those who still had food on their plate.”
To be fair, I’d say that this program does sound kind of totalitarian. But body-shaming? How is encouraging you not to throw away your food body-shaming? After all, it’s not like the program is saying “Don’t waste food by eating too much food!” it’s just saying “Do not waste your food by throwing it away.”
In addition to all of her issues with campus programs, Frost also complains that the campus is “crawling with future male models for Patagonia, REI, and North Face,” and that this abundance of hot men makes the less hot men feel bad about themselves.
“I noticed how there were a lot of students, especially men, who were extremely fit,” Frost writes. “This became even more apparent when another freshman, who later became my best friend, stepped onto campus.”
I’m not sure exactly what Frost would do about this problem. Perhaps some kind of fat-firmative action? Start denying admission to hot students because too many hot students had already been admitted? Or, perhaps, let those hot students in . . . but only on the condition that they promise to get fat within their first semester.
Frost complains that she routinely experiences “emotional injury” on campus due to her “lack of body privilege.” No doubt, feeling bad about yourself is awful, and we should always sympathize with those who are struggling and try to lift each other up. But hinting that your school should take away things that are objectively good just so you can feel better about yourself is ridiculous and unfair. The fact is, the world doesn’t work that way . . . and no one should want it to, either.
He obsessively studied **** Germany and Soviet Russia for 15 years over how ordinary people can turn into guards at the gulag or Auschwitz, sending fellow human beings to their deaths by the thousands.
The person on the right is apparently assuming the gender of the person depicted in the sign. I mean, "HER choice?" What is it's "Xer choice"?
Just because someone is capable of becoming pregnant doesn't tell you anything about whether they are female and idenify as "her." (If I understand SJW-ism correctly.)
Protesting against abortion bans is also exclusionary; it discriminates against trans-women, who are biologically incapable of having a child. Not banning abortion forces them to watch helplessly as other female-aligned persons give birth, which is probably a trigger for a lot of them.
Need to make yet another protest sign. And also demand the construction of safe spaces in hospital maternity wards.
LOL @ smug wisecrack. Of course he (and I) are both aware of that seminal experiment. (As well as the Milgram experiments) He dives a lot deeper into the human psyche. His 15 years of research included visiting the sites and interviewing survivors.
He wrote a book as a result of his historical and neuropscyhology research. Check out the reviews https://www.amazon.com/Maps-Meaning-.../dp/0415922224
LOL @ smug wisecrack. Of course he (and I) are both aware of that seminal experiment. (As well as the Milgram experiments) He dives a lot deeper into the human psyche. His 15 years of research included visiting the sites and interviewing survivors.
He wrote a book as a result of his historical and neuropscyhology research. Check out the reviews https://www.amazon.com/Maps-Meaning-.../dp/0415922224
remember, when your friends and family die in a horrific fire, and you need to use dental records to identify their bodies, make sure you also identify their pronoun identification correctly as well.
A “Marxist” “collectivist” “worker-run” restaurant in Grand Rapids, Michigan, closed its doors this week after customers complained that they could no longer tolerate the bizarre hours, high prices and long lines.
The Garden Diner and Cafe—previously known as the Bartertown Diner—featured a vegan, vegetarian and raw food menu that had met with significant national acclaim. But the restaurant’s business model, which did not allow for bosses or managers, promised a “living wage” to all employees and a strong union, did not allow the restaurant to make enough profit to stay in business.
winning quote of the week
It turns out, in a shocking revelation to the store’s management, that those Soviet bread lines were a bug, not a feature of Communism.
A police officer/student at Loyola University at New Orleans reportedly had the police called on him by his own professor.
Josh Collins, the officer involved, reportedly did not have time to change out of his uniform when running late to class on Wednesday, December 7.
Still wearing his uniform – and with his firearm holstered on his hip – Josh walked into class, unaware that a student sitting next to him would become triggered by his presence.
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According to Josh, the professor then proceeded to contact police, who arrived at the scene and informed him that Josh “was perfectly within the law.”
“First of all,” reads Josh’s Facebook post, “what type of over sensitive indoctrinated liberal flower petals has this generation created that they are scared of going to schools with a uniformed police officer.”
In spite of this, Loyola University has contended Josh’s interpretation of events, instead saying that everything was “a misunderstanding.”
According to an official statement from the university, “The teacher contacted campus security to determine university policy. Campus security directed the teacher to confirm that the student with the firearm works in law enforcement. The teacher confirmed that the student worked in law enforcement and the class returned at the end of the break.”
Allegedly, Josh was not wearing the typical “blue uniform” of police officers at the time of the incident. Instead, he was wearing SWAT fatigues, which may have caused the confusion.
Josh, however, sees it all very differently, “Loyola University, a Jesuit Institution, prides itself on its commitment to social justice. However, in creating an environment where everyone is accepted for who they are, you have now created an environment where I have been ostracized. As a police officer, I feel as though I must hide my profession in order to obtain a fair education.”
the rant:
You know, as a white male conservative, I have put up with a lot of prejudicial and biased comments directed towards me while attending Loyola University New Orleans. I usually think the comments are funny because the ideals of a 18 year old ultra socialist frankly are funny to me. But today made me sad for the youth and the college I have attended for 8 years. Given how busy we have been this past week, including today, I showed up to class late and was still in full uniform because I didn't have time to change. Obviously, being in full police uniform, I was armed. This is the first time after having six previous classes that anyone became aware of my profession. Shortly after my arrival, a fellow classmate complained to the professor of their uncomfortableness of having an armed police officer in the class. Mind you, I have sat in the same class for the last six weeks in civilian clothing. My professor then called the police. Of course I was not privileged to either of these conversations as they took place behind my back. My professor then pulled me out of class and told me that he had called the police based on the student complaint The police obviously never came and told him over the phone that I was perfectly within the law.
First of all, what type of over sensitive indoctrinated liberal flower petals has this generation created that they are scared of going to school with a uniformed police officer.
Secondly, how ironical and dumbfounding is it that you called the police to tell them that there was a police officer sitting in your class. Loyola University, a Jesuit Institution, prides itself on its commitment to social justice. However, in creating an environment where everyone is accepted for who they are, you have now created an environment where I have been ostracized. As a police officer, I feel as though I must hide my profession in order to obtain a fair education.
Funniest of all, the title of the class is LAW AND MORALITY.
Students at the University of Pennsylvania removed a portrait of Shakespeare from a prominent location in the school’s English department after complaining that he did not represent a diverse range of writers.
In fact, the chair of the department confirmed in a statement that the portrait was stripped from the wall by his students as “a way of affirming their commitment to a more inclusive mission for the English department,” The Daily Pennsylvanian reports.
Additionally, Department Chair Jed Esty explained that the portrait was “delivered” to his office and replaced with a photograph of Audre Lorde, a celebrated African American feminist and author, in a move that was intended to send a message to Esty, whose department agreed to replace the portrait several years ago.
Esty went on to confirm that the portrait of Lorde will remain in Shakespeare’s place until he and his colleagues can reach an agreement on what to do next, announcing the establishment of a “working group” to help monitor the process.
Yes, the inmates truly are running the asylum, but only because the people originally in charge made them even crazier in the first place.
The insane 1960’s hippie leftovers who began hijacking academia in the 1970’s have spent decades placing a premium on ideology and feelings rather than learning. They probably didn’t expect to be doing the bidding of the students they’re charged with educating. That’s because progressives aren’t very good at referencing somewhat recent history. If they’d only remembered how impertinent and emotional they were to kick this whole thing off, this would all make sense to them.
It is the height of stupidity to “white wash” William Shakespeare from a university English department and replace him with a no-name author who fulfills some social justice warrior rage fantasy that Gaia McTatts developed along with her mommy issues.
If the goal is to rush to the bottom and create a generation that not only lacks emotional fortitude but is also remarkably stupid, American higher education is currently on point.
If we would like to remain a great nation and not drown in a pool of weakness and ignorance, maybe the adults at universities should begin acting like adults again.
Some parents might want to get involved in the equation sooner or later too.
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