the world is my kindergarden
I find myself a co-subject of controversy right now, as a few of us, boys and girls, were looking at porn together on the office computer (gasp!), and apparently a bunch of people (who never mentioned anything at the time) got really upset and feel that "the office isn't a safe space for them anymore", and we're driving new people away
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What do you think of anti-porn sentiments from hardline feminists?
What do you think would have happened if there weren't any girls watching the porn as well?
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however, you have to agree with me that Waterloo is filled with prudes. Don't you remember my excellent mathnews cover that got pulled? How I wanted to write the sex column but got turned down in favor of people who never have sex? How frosh week guidelines mandate that you can't drink or smoke or mention drugs in the front of the frosh (when you're a leader)? That there was a girl who was offended by Single and Sexy? All the Christian groups that pepper the campus, the anti-choicers? The Women's center was FORCED to change their name from womyn's to women. Ok, I'm not a fan of the word womyn, but why should someone else get to decide what they get to call themselves? The university is apparently one of the only ones in canada to refuse to have a safe-space program for queer students (because it would offend more conservative applicants).
I mean, come on. These people are babies.
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Your point that people take undue offence to the tiniest things is not lost on me. It is true that this is a trait of Waterloo students. But it's something fairly common to the University set. It's the first time they can actually have real choice.
They soon learn that this annoys other people to no end. Unless they grow into yuppies.
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