02-14-2009: "What Flavor of Man is He?" (Past Post)

I was talking to my parents today about recent events at UMF. I mentioned how the Spring Fling theme is "Show Me the Beaver" but on the T-shirts people are designing, they aren't allowed to reference UMF because of the "sexual" nature of the slogan. I also told them how student groups were not allowed to use the word "beaver" or a depiction of it, as it was too sexual (despite the fact that the University store can). I think this arose from the "There's Nothing Sweeter Than A Healthy Beaver" shirts from a while back.
My mother shared my feeling, that if the Spring Fling theme is too sexual to be associated with the university hosting it, perhaps it should not be the theme.
My father's response was as follows:

"What a bunch of Puritanical, Fundamentalist tight-asses!
I think that someone, maybe an active, community-minded student, a leader in an organization, perhaps, ought to get together with some people and write a letter to the administration.
Maybe the Alliance could get involved? You could write a letter to the President.
'We, the Alliance, wish to change the school mascot from the beaver, which is a highly suggestive sexual term, to the vagina, which is of course a scientific term and therefore not suggestive in the least.
Oh, by the way, you're all acting like c*nts.'"

I love my family.