Don't Dough Me That Way
Lick your doughnut wrong at Drexel, and you could be in some serious trouble. Joanna Brenner posts at FIRE about some...
...particularly egregious speech codes at schools across our country, such as Drexel University's prohibition of "holding or eating food provocatively," Or Indiana University Southeast's prohibition of "faxes sexual in nature." That's right--we said faxes.







If they put the kibosh on sex faxes, then this will be the students' only recourse.
NumberSix at July 17, 2011 12:02 AM
What is fax is wrong with these people?
Patrick at July 17, 2011 7:21 AM
We could make our own ice cream cones when I went to college. I remember a girl (who is now on my facebook), left a message on someones door calling him a pervert. I asked why and she said, "He was licking his ice cream cone in a suggestive manner."
I got the idea. I suppose eating food in a provocative manner can be construed as obscene.
Although I would think ice cream cones would be more effectively suggestive if used on guys, not girls.
Patrick at July 17, 2011 7:25 AM
Patrick - I think the problem is that you are a sane person living in an insane world, which is why nothing makes sense.
brian at July 17, 2011 7:40 AM
Well, I think it's about time that someone did something about sexually explicit smoke signals on campus. Maybe next they'll get around to cleaning up The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights.
Cousin Dave at July 17, 2011 7:55 AM
An ice cream cone? All wet and drippy? No.
A POPSICLE...now you're talking.
And Devo fans will recall a bit of animation from one of their videos featuring a donut and a crueller...
Vinnie Bartilucci at July 17, 2011 9:42 AM
And Devo fans will recall a bit of animation from one of their videos featuring a donut and a crueller...
Are you referring to the That's Good video.
It was a french fry. But point taken.
Jim P. at July 17, 2011 12:38 PM
I hate to admit it, but Cousin Dave stole my thunder. Though I like to send really lewd proposals by telegram.
BOTU at July 17, 2011 12:48 PM
"Eating food provocatively"???
Dear god.
Lisa Simeone at July 17, 2011 1:02 PM
"He was licking his ice cream cone in a suggestive manner."
Rose: Nils Feelander attempted to harass me repeatedly.
Blanche: What do you mean, he attempted to?
Rose: He worked at Lars Eriksson's Drugstore and Tackle Shop, he was the soda jerk. Now that I think about it, he was the town jerk. Every Saturday afternoon I'd go in and have a sundae. Well, Nils would arrange the ice cream scoops in an obscene way. I could never prove it, because by the time I would take it home to show my father, the evidence had...
Dorothy, Blanche: Melted.
Rose: Yeah. To this day, every time I pass an ice cream parlor or a tackle shop, I blush!
NumberSix at July 17, 2011 1:28 PM
My roommate's friend used to get paid $50.00 to go to lunch with business men - and this was 30 years ago!
Yes, she did eat her food in a very suggestive manner! I finally knew why my mother said, "Never play with your food!"
I can certainly see why this would be offensive and since campuses are responsible for creating a non-hostile environment, they feel that they have to do something. I would like to classify most of these types of interactions free speech. As long as schools and employers are held responsible, they will make stupid rules.
Jen at July 17, 2011 4:18 PM
So no ice cream cones?
Man they take the fun out of life if you can't even lick an ice cream cone cause it's "provocative".
Paul at July 17, 2011 5:57 PM
A long time ago, I used to work in a pizza joint. If some of our friends came in and ordered a pepperoni pizza, we'd arrange the pepperoni slices on the pizza so that they spelled out something lewd. More than once, some of our friends got a pizza that said EAT ME.
Cousin Dave at July 17, 2011 6:12 PM
So they'll expel a woman who ties a cherry stem into a knot with her tongue, I take it?
mpetrie98 at July 17, 2011 7:39 PM
There is an absolutely ancient trick with faxes that you could tape mostly black sheets of paper together and send them the through a fax machine until the distant ended up as a smoking heap.
I could see a war dialing setup that faxed a college from hundreds of different phone numbers (including "friendly" ones) that just had various suggestive things.
They would have to either shut down all faxes or get a clue.
Jim P. at July 17, 2011 9:52 PM
So...does this mean that the hot dog eating contest is cancelled?
Conan the Grammarian at July 18, 2011 9:06 AM
It can be done with a style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vLBMEWexoI
chang at July 18, 2011 9:09 AM
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