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This shit actually happened. Felt like the ass-to-ass scene in Requiem for a Dream/a state school.
Jello Wrasslin’
Written by Rowley on September 25th, 2011-
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haters gonna hate. great pic. good times. chill, bro.
where’s your sense of humor?
Nonexistent.
Yoooo bro its cool to be an old soul and everything but you sound like your 82. Women are more like men now than they ever have been before and that’s a good thing (more women in the workforce, politics, etc. etc.). If guys did this you wouldn’t say anything. Every girl who was in this is just a badass progressive chick who wanted to kick some ass. No one forced them into the jello. And don’t be jealous you didn’t come through man, just know that in terms of your friday night there are actually some alternatives to blogging stoned with a bottle merlot.
Actually, it was a bottle of shiraz. Trivial detail, I know, but it seems important.
I appreciate your attempt at defending a woman’s right to jello wrestling half-naked in front of a group of roaring drunk men as progress for women everywhere, but please don’t equate jello wrestling to women’s progress in workforce and politics. Also, when you say “women are more like men now than they ever have been before,” what are you talking about? Because last time I checked, not all men even have the same rights, but maybe you were only referring to heterosexual white middle to upper class men. Before you make generalizations saying that women and men are alike, check your facts. No matter how much you support a Woman’s Right to Jello Wrestling, she still will very likely make less than her male counterpart at work, and male-female ratios in politics are not even close. “If guys did this you wouldn’t say anything,” is a bit off, too. You don’t think that people would give them shit for being pseudo-”macho” tools rolling around in jello? And as far as your sad comments about “old souls” and “merlot,” at least use proper grammar and have something better to say than an ignorant half-baked post about what convenient brand of feminism justifies your, or your friends’, actions.
ok you guys there’s only one way to settle an internet fight… put on your leotards, we’re heading back to the pool filled with jello!
**there were just as many roaring woman as roaring men in the crowd… just saying
“those poor girls”…? are you insinuating that the women that participated lack the autonomy/intelligence to make their own decisions about what they choose to do with their bodies? noone coerced any of them to take part nor did they feel in any way that what they were doing was innappropriate. unfortunately, most actions that a women may do in respect to her body often becomes sexualized by society in some way, whether that be in jello wrestling or when a woman chooses to take her top off in order to express her sexual freedom. there are always going to be those ignorant chauvinists who choose to objectify women. jello wrestling may be traditionally seen as an androcentric event, but you are only perpetuating this negative perception by posting pictures and comparing the saturday night event to the likeness of forced prostitution. no matter what you may think the women that participated were not wrestling to appease the interests of the men who chose to attend. your assumptions in this matter demonstrate what your own opinions about women may be.
and as far as your “a state school” comment, your elitest attitude in this instance does nothing for your arguement. just because the largely privileged community of skidmore can afford to attend a private college doesn’t make us any better or any more intelligent than those who attend a public school.
everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but we shouldn’t have to justify our actions to you after the fact of your rather malicious post. if you wanted an explanation for the event maybe you should have sought out the perspective of someone who participated before you posted something about it in such bad taste.
You’re right, you are absolutely right. You just clearly haven’t figured out the difference between theory and practice.
Have you ever done anything that actually helps women, like volunteering at a clinic, or campaigning for a pro-women’s rights candidate? It’s hard for me to take your theory seriously if jello wrestling is the extent of your practice. You seem to take the right to do whatever you want with your body for granted, as women should be able to, but the reality is, we can’t. We live in a country where Planned Parenthood has lately been defunded frequently and easily, and for some women financially that means that they have no control over what they can do with their bodies. If you’re concerned about a women’s right to her own body, it’s a shame that you’re putting your time into something trivial like jello wrestling, when you could actually be working toward maintaining the rights of women less privileged than yourself.
Also, I advise that you don’t speculate about what the author’s “own opinions about women may be” based on this post. Unless you know him personally (which by your assertions, clearly you don’t) I suggest that you step off, and follow your own advice about not making assumptions.
Everything you’ve written above is drenched in contradiction. maybe you should ask yourself all of the same questions. first of all, do YOU yourself or the author know any of the women who participated? highly doubtful. and secondly who are you to question what I and those that participated have done to help support and maintain the rights of women? once again I do not have to prove myself to you and my opinion will not be swayed by your veiled threat for me to “step off”. those who wrestled did not do so to make a statement about maintaining the rights of women and I can assure you I’ve done a lot more for maintaining the rights of women than whining on a blog about it. stop over-analyzing the event and wasting your time and mine trying to bring others down.
Seriously…the “ass to ass scene of Requiem for a Dream??” Way to bring it to a whole ‘nother level! As a lady student of this school, I find it disappointing that an event such as this got blown to such silly proportions…if guys want to jello fight, no biggy. if girls want to jello fight, suddenly its sexualized to the nth degree. Can’t a girl put on a leotard and get covered in strawberry flavored gelatin if she so desires?
I love poptarts