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Volume CXXXIII, Number 13 |
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Nothing funny about this cartoon
To the Editors:
I would like to comment on the cartoon which appeared in the last issue of the Orient. I was initially shocked by the cartoon, which features a male student horrified at receiving an e-mail invitation to get coffee from a girl he had hooked up with the night before, with the caption "Have Bowdoin women gone too far?" I was disturbed when I saw that such a thing was published, and then surprised when I found out the cartoonist is a Bowdoin woman herself.
I am therefore assuming that the cartoon, which would otherwise be incredibly offensive, was meant as a satire of an all too frequent occurrence on college campuses. I agree that it is deplorable that college boys are encouraged to be rude and insensitive, and college women are ridiculed when they try to do something about it. Bowdoin is not immune from this, and I know that many women agree with me and are tired of these two contradicting standards. At a su;posedly liberal school such as Bowdoin, accepting, and more diverse every year, this degrading and disrespectful behavior toward women has no place.
Sincerely,
Julia Guerrero Reed '06
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