Posted on May 6 at 10:59 p.m.Suggest removal

MatthewMurrayDay, the football program is self-supporting and actually pays a lump sum of cash to the university, not the other way around.

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Posted on May 5 at 9:04 a.m.Suggest removal

And why exactly is that, soonerboomers?

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Posted on May 4 at 4:48 p.m.Suggest removal

Mustafa might have been alive then, after all he said in another thread that he has been following the abortion debate for several decades - all those years have apparently made him a little crazy.

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Posted on May 3 at 2:10 p.m.Suggest removal

I always love a rousing execution.

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Posted on April 30 at 10:51 a.m.Suggest removal

Wait, it isn't caused by farting on someone's pillow?

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Posted on April 28 at 4:59 p.m.Suggest removal

Why shouldn't the racist and homophobic things Sig Ep members wrote on their walls not be posted here? Are they not held to certain standards as members of a fraternity? If Ryan Baker didn't want everyone to know what a disgusting gay-hating freak he is, maybe he shouldn't have posted that on someone else's wall. He should be immediately kicked out of Sig Ep and I plan on forwarding all this to the national organization because obviously this kind of racism and homophobia is a blight on our campus that has to be stamped out whenever it appears. You cannot be in an organization and not held to account when you start talking hate speech.

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Posted on April 28 at 10:49 a.m.Suggest removal

Hey Dylan, did you know that there are more combinations on your keyboard besides Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V? Can you take your retarded copypasta to 4chan or something? Your only real comment on this site has been to accuse a UOSA candidate of calling someone a beaner and a spic. Maybe you should cut your fingers off since they only lead you to type out libelous diarrhea.

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Posted on April 28 at 9:51 a.m.Suggest removal

How is it possible to even have thought of this issue for an Our View without knowing or at least mentioning that Subway is moving because of OU's Imminent Domain claim on its current location? That's a SERIOUS failure to research if you want to have an opinion beyond "fast food is bad don't corporate my nompton, durrrrrrrr!"

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Posted on April 28 at 9:48 a.m.Suggest removal

I for one think this editorial is mostly correct. But whenever anybody utters this kind of thinking there is always a ubiquitous "this does not apply to me" statement by a feminist. Nothing wrong with that, but it gives a false impression via response bias that the population of women for whom hook-up culture really "works" (i.e., they are empowered and aren't burned by it in the long run, which I personally find extremely strange) is greater than it really is and that this idea is way more hegemonic among self-identified feminists than it really is. Both sides are also very defensive about their views and leads them to make generalizations, as this editorial does, about how the sexuality of people should work. Then you have bloggers like Slut Machine over at Jezebel who are just ironic manifestations of what those of us with traditional-relationship-oriented sexuality can't help but think about hook-up-oriented people - despite all their protestations to being empowered, they're really just pathetic, self-absorbed and under-validated people leading excessively dangerous lifestyles that place them - far more frequently than necessary and perfectly of their own volition - in situations where they can be raped or contract STD's from strangers.

Maybe it's a characteristic of the demographics of a lot of feminist blogs that whenever something with this message comes out, several commenters will come out and say that they agree with the message and then are berated for being close-minded or not sufficiently liberated by another group of feminists. It's not like this is a sideshow distraction in feminism (or masculinism or whatever) - sexuality really cuts to the core of our gender attitudes and there is a definite current of thought that associates commitment and deep connection with a single person or male with the oppressiveness of patriarchal institutions and unequal power relationships. This may be true theoretically, but I can't help but think Emma Goldman was probably right when she criticized a lot of her radical peers for overintellectualizing their sexuality and getting burned in return for denying their emotional needs.

But to evenhanded in this it's important to remember that while a lot of people in hook-up culture probably have unacknowledged psychological issues and downplay the risks of their behavior, it's also true that the rest of us going it the traditional way can get locked into emotionally and physically abusive relationships that are just as unhealthy as we might think unattached sex is. Like eightbitgirl says, the biggest enemy of this back-and-forth are blanket generalizations about how men and women should be and some kind of ideal sexual type. Just saying, though, that maybe some of these pro-hookup people (men and women) should watch a movie like A Nos Amours (dir. Maurice Pialat) and honestly ask if they're not seeing a little bit of themselves onscreen.

PS: Mustafa is a woman-hating sack of fail.

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Posted on April 28 at 8:08 a.m.Suggest removal

Governor Henry is absolutely right. Yet the people of Oklahoma will continue voting for these people to continue wasting our money over pointless legal battles on unconstitutional legislation. They call themselves conservative Christians but these are the most evil, vile snakes around. Democracy in action when you have an ignorant and superstitious voting population. Well, I for one will not be donating my tax money to a state that hates women - these pigs can drown in their own self-generated economic stagnation when the reasonable people leave.

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