Opponents hate IOWA's pink locker room

BobbyTheDon · #1 09-28-2005, 02:09 PM

Opponents seeing red over Iowa's pink locker room

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The pink visitors' locker room at the University of Iowa's stadium is making some people see red.

Several professors and students joined the call Tuesday for the athletic department to do away with the pink showers, carpeting and lockers, a decades-long Hawkeye football tradition.

Critics say the use of pink demeans women, perpetuates offensive stereotypes about women and homosexuality, and puts the university in the uncomfortable position of tacitly supporting those messages.

''I want the locker room gone,'' law school professor Jill Gaulding told a university committee studying the athletic department's compliance with NCAA standards, including gender equity.

For decades, visiting football teams playing at Kinnick Stadium have dressed and showered in the pink locker room. The tradition was started by former Iowa coach Hayden Fry, a psychology major who said pink had a calming and passive effect on people.

As part of the stadium's two-year, $88 million makeover, athletic officials took the former coach's interior decorating ideas to another level, splashing pink across the brick walls, shower floors and installing pink metal lockers, carpeting, sinks, showers and urinals.

The controversy gained momentum and media attention last week when a visiting law school professor told reporters she had received death threats after voicing objections on her Web site.

Rudey · #2 09-28-2005, 02:12 PM

The feminists need to shutup. They already got rid of wrestling at most schools. Now it's locker room colors?

-Rudey

WCUgirl · #3 09-28-2005, 02:12 PM

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Originally posted by BobbyTheDon
Critics say the use of pink demeans women, perpetuates offensive stereotypes about women and homosexuality, and puts the university in the uncomfortable position of tacitly supporting those messages.

Seriously?

sugar and spice · #4 09-28-2005, 02:15 PM

Waaaah.

Way too many holes in the logic to even start with here.

valkyrie · #5 09-28-2005, 02:18 PM

Critics say the use of pink demeans women, perpetuates offensive stereotypes about women and homosexuality, and puts the university in the uncomfortable position of tacitly supporting those messages.

As a feminist, I can say that this is just about the most ridiculous thing I have EVER read in my entire life.

Taualumna · #6 09-28-2005, 02:22 PM

Maybe it's a very ugly shade of pink?

33girl · #7 09-28-2005, 02:32 PM

I think that professor has a grudge against the school. She probably wanted to help with Dance Marathon and the chairman wouldn't let her.

valkyrie · #8 09-28-2005, 02:50 PM

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Originally posted by 33girl
I think that professor has a grudge against the school. She probably wanted to help with Dance Marathon and the chairman wouldn't let her.

OOOOOH SNAP!!!!

tinydancer · #9 09-28-2005, 03:08 PM

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Originally posted by 33girl
I think that professor has a grudge against the school. She probably wanted to help with Dance Marathon and the chairman wouldn't let her.

And now my 5th graders are wondering what is sooooo funny. It sure isn't them!

Sister Havana · #10 09-28-2005, 03:26 PM

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Originally posted by valkyrie
Critics say the use of pink demeans women, perpetuates offensive stereotypes about women and homosexuality, and puts the university in the uncomfortable position of tacitly supporting those messages.

As a feminist, I can say that this is just about the most ridiculous thing I have EVER read in my entire life.

This feminist seconds that opinion! (Valkyrie's, not the critics'!)

ISUKappa · #11 09-28-2005, 03:44 PM

Part of me thinks it's really funny and part of me thinks it's dumb because it's UIowa and I have to on principle.

But damn, it's pink. Throw in some potpourri and one of those little crocheted doll TP thingies and you have my husband's grandma's bathroom.

BobbyTheDon · #12 09-28-2005, 03:54 PM

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For decades, visiting football teams playing at Kinnick Stadium have dressed and showered in the pink locker room. The tradition was started by former Iowa coach Hayden Fry, a psychology major who said pink had a calming and passive effect on people.

Dude. How awesome would it be if the background music played in that background music was some gay boy band. Like O-town "Cause I want it All" or Backstreet Boys " You are...my fiiiiiire"

can you imagine the opposing team trying to get pumped up.

"WHO'S BACK?!?!"
"BACKSTREETS BACK!"

WHAT TIME IS IT?!?!"
"CUZ I WANT IT ALL!"

"OR WHAT?!"
" OR NOTHING AT ALL!"
"WHO'S IT GONNA BE?"
"It'S GONNA BE ME!"

And then it had ballerinas. Or how about them playing Don't CHA by the Pussycat Dolls.

Can you imagine a linebacker on a visiting team making a tackle on the Iowa QB, getting up and goes " DON'T CHA!?!?! "

They should make them watch the Bravo channel in the background too.

ShaedyKD · #13 09-28-2005, 06:38 PM

Hi, my name is Bobby, and I'm a boy band-aholic.

Hi Bobby!

bluefish81 · #14 09-28-2005, 11:15 PM

I not an Iowa fan. However, I think it's their own choice to decide how they want to decorate their stadium, including the locker rooms. If they want to spend their money buying ugly pink carpeting, urinals, toilets and paint - fine whatever. It's not like they are providing inadequate resources for their visitors such as a space that too small or something.

I think this woman needs to find more important things to spend her time worrying about than the color of a locker room. This is not the most important and critical thing going on in Iowa, let alone the world at the present time.