Is It Because Women Supposedly Don't Have Quickies?
I sometimes feel kinda dense when presented with some image or phrase that's supposed to be terribly offensive to women, because it sometimes takes me a while to figure out what the problem is.
It's happened again, this time in my old college town of Ann Arbor. Somebody opened a joint called Quickie Burger, and put up signage with a cartoon image of a burger-riding hot chick holding a beer. (Photo at the link.)
Jillian Berman, who wrote the story for the college newspaper, The Michigan Daily, calls her "a busty woman in a tight shirt," but she looks like a C cup to me, tops, for whatever that's worth. Well, it's enough to get the PC people testy. Berman writes:
The Stonewall Democrats, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender caucus of the University's College Democrats chapter, has taken offense with the restaurant's logo and recently began circulating a petition to sway the owners to change the logo.LSA senior Kolby Roberts, a member of the Stonewall Democrats who has led the effort, said he finds the logo's message inappropriate and offensive.
"I have a problem that you take a women riding a hamburger and you put it next to the word 'quickie,' " he said. "It just seems like it's not putting a good message out there for the objectification of women."
Oh, eat me.
(How's that for objectification of women?)
Clearly, Kolby spends his nights curled up with Andrea Dworkin (the printed version, that is, since the old cow mooed her last not long ago).
But, back to the dreaded "O" word that so many nitwit feminists toss around.
Let's all turn in our syllabi to today's biology lesson, courtesy of Donald Symons, author of The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Back to Berman's story:
Maria Arman, whose family owns the restaurant, said the logo was meant to invoke a cowboy theme."We were thinking beef, rodeo, so instead of putting a cowboy, we just picked a cowgirl," she said. "It's a rodeo-style cowgirl riding a bull, but instead, it's a burger. It was put together to be funny and different. No offense was meant to anyone."
Before selecting a logo for the restaurant, which features a maize and blue color scheme with televisions tuned to ESPN on the interior, the owners showed the logo to more than 100 people and none of them objected, Arman said.
"The people who we talked to told us, 'It's a college town and the kids will think its funny,'" she said.
LSA freshman Dan Yeomans said while he wasn't personally offended by the logo, he could see how others might interpret it in a negative way.
"I could see the same people who were offended by the South Quad T-shirts taking offense to this," said Yeomans, referring to a batch of dorm-sponsored shirts that featured lyrics from the popular, but controversial Soulja Boy song "Crank That."
Roberts said he believed the image was distasteful, regardless of the person.
"Basically, what it has is a provocatively dressed woman straddling a hamburger, and she's very busty and its kind of really horrible," he said.
Uh...why?
via ifeminists
UPDATE: Kolby is big on "diversity" -- except if you're a...(eeeeuw!) Republican. Roberts writes in The Michigan Daily:
For the first 19 years of my life, I lived in Bryan, Ohio. You may ask, "Where?" To which I say, it doesn't really matter. The point is that I lived in a small podunk where Wal-Mart was the place to be seen. To make matters worse, Bryan is a haven for racists, homophobes and Republicans.
Why is it that the "tolerant" people who are so often the most bigoted, and the least able to identify it? This guy's just Archie Bunker with "Spice Girls, ponies and glitter."