We’re getting to the point where no one can EVER say anything offensive without getting in trouble. Life is full of shitty offensive things but you know what? Somehow the world keeps turning. I don’t know how I did it, but when Erin Thompson called me a “stupid fatty” in the 2nd grade I managed to not kill myself out of grief and continued living my life like any normal fucking person. I didn’t record what she said and upload it to the Internet and I didn’t go running to the teacher so she’d get in trouble; I told her to shut up and went about my coloring book.
Granted, the song that got the rugby team at the University of Mary Washington suspended is much cruder than “stupid fatty:”
Finally found a whore (Finally found a whore!)
She was right and dead. (She was right and dead!)
Well god damn son of a bitch we’re gonna get it in! (God damn son of a bitch we’re gonna get it in!)Finally got it in (Finally got it in!)
Wiggle it all about (Wiggle it all about!)
God damn son of a bitch I couldn’t get it out (God damn son of a bitch we couldn’t get it out!)Finally got it out (Finally got it out!)
It was red and sore (It was red and sore!)
Moral of the story is never fuck a whore!
But did the whole team deserve to be suspended over what only 8 members sang? I don’t think so. Make those 8 take a sexual assault class, issue an apology, whatever – but if everyone’s gut reaction to anything deemed “offensive” is to immediately suspend the perpetrators then we’re about to see a lot of kids getting in trouble soon. College students are stupid, immature and generally unaware of how their actions in the “now” will affect them down the road, and targeting them during this stage in their life is like shooting fish in a barrel. The point of college is to get an education, isn’t it? So educate the students, tell them why they’re wrong and then show them how their actions affect others. Suspending the team does none of that. Granted, they’ve all been required to take sexual assault training, but getting rid of the team all together comes across as a cop-out just to make it look like the University is being “proactive.”
[H/T Jezebel]