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September 29, 2005

Pink is now a 'discriminatory' color

God save me from people who obviously have no life

IOWA CITY, Iowa - The pink visitors' locker room at the University of Iowa's stadium is making some people see red.

Several professors and students joined the call Tuesday for the athletic department to do away with the pink showers, carpeting and lockers, a decades-long Hawkeye football tradition.

Critics say the use of pink demeans women, perpetuates offensive stereotypes about women and homosexuality, and puts the university in the uncomfortable position of tacitly supporting those messages.

So, only women can wear pink (an almost 'neutral' this past year) without being "offensive"? And someone ought to be complaining about these guys, too.

Once we ban pink from the palette, should we start in on blue? I mean, how dare we use a color so associated with the Oppressive Patriarchy?

Posted by Darleen at September 29, 2005 06:46 AM

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Blue is okay, though, because it represents those freedom-and-equality loving Democrats.

Except for the fact that they flip the color assignments around every election. Which means in 2006, the Democrats will be red and the Republicans will be blue.

So yeah. Fuck blue.

Posted by: Jeff Harrell at September 29, 2005 12:07 PM