It’s Fall Semester! Welcome back to school!
And welcome back to yet another example of the rape culture on
our college campuses.
On my way to my faculty office, which is in the lower level
of a residence hall, I spied a bulletin board titled “Hook Pick Up Line And
Sinker” on prominent display in one of the main hallways.
“Um, what?!” I said to myself, as I began to examine the
many items on the board, which were carefully printed on colored paper, cut out
and double-mounted on a different color, and then artfully placed on the board.
They were examples of pick up lines one might use to “hook up” and eventually
“sink her.” Here are a few gems:
- Oh, I’m sorry . . . I thought that was a Braille
name tag
- Your daddy must be a hunter because he sure
caught a fox
- Ya know, if we cut your arms off, you’d look
just like Venus de Milo
- Want to become a STUD. You know, you can’t spell
stud without STD and U.
As Seth and Amy would say: Really!?!
First, we have the line that is to be delivered as a phony
apology after violating a woman’s body – one can only assume the line is to be said
while a woman’s breast is being touched in the fashion of a person with blindness
reading a Braille text. This one gets double points for demeaning both people
with visual disabilities and women.