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Yes, there are indeed lots of people who are bothered by it. You are quick to accuse them of getting "all bent of of shape" about it, but in fact the vast major
by marshray 15y ago
Yes, there are indeed lots of people who are bothered by it.
You are quick to accuse them of getting "all bent of of shape" about it, but in fact the vast majority of them understand the idea of a mascot and don't complain.
Sports mascots seem to be established as an exception. Sports teams seem to like to project an irreverent image. Duke, in fact, started as a religious school. Methodists are pretty cool about not getting "all bent of of shape" like that.
You don't have to go back in time very far to find people who wouldn't understand the idea of having a mascot for a computer operating system. Thus, it was not established as an objection.
- marshray 15y agos/objection/exception/
- Lagged2Death 15y agoI didn't accuse anyone of getting "bent out of shape," the phrase was part of a non-rhetorical question. I think the phrase is warranted in light of the story here. The more I think about the mascot issue, the less sense it makes to me that a person who truly believed it was morally wrong to invoke the Devil would allow such an exception. The fact that a crowd of 10,000 screaming fans is (arguably) doing something very much akin to worshiping the mascot just makes it about 100,000x worse.
- marshray 15y agoBack then perhaps the athletics were maybe more removed from the oversight of the university leadership. It may be that mascots were selected by energetic (drunk?) young people in an irreverent state of mind. Maybe even being a little rebellious. This is a bit of history from DePaul, a Catholic university: http://news.library.depaul.edu/news/post/2008/07/How-did-DePaul-get-a-demon-as-a-mascot.aspx http://news.library.depaul.edu/news/post/2008/07/How-did-DeP... "So next time you are out cheering for the red and the blue remember to cheer for our Demon too!"