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reipan Just got home to an email about the posters for CUSU LGBT Awareness week. Apparently our flyers were refused at Magdalene College and accepted at Corpus and St Johns, only to be pulled out of people's pigeonholes and thrown on the floor.
This is the shocking news that in modern-day Cambridge some people still object to Queer Folk And The Like, and are not afraid to make their views known in a tediously immature sort of way.
...seriously. I mean, if a college wants to point-blank refuse the flyers then that's one thing, but pulling them out of pigeonholes and throwing them on the floor? Not only is that one of the most petty things I've ever heard of (you know, as well as being disrespectful etc), it also just seems pointless. If you object to Awareness Week drawing attention to itself then surely throwing the flyers on the floor is the wrong way to go about rectifying the situation? A small piece of laminated paper in your pigeonhole is very easy to overlook, it's considerably harder to ignore the floor suddenly being covered in rainbows.
Just sayin'.
This is the shocking news that in modern-day Cambridge some people still object to Queer Folk And The Like, and are not afraid to make their views known in a tediously immature sort of way.
...seriously. I mean, if a college wants to point-blank refuse the flyers then that's one thing, but pulling them out of pigeonholes and throwing them on the floor? Not only is that one of the most petty things I've ever heard of (you know, as well as being disrespectful etc), it also just seems pointless. If you object to Awareness Week drawing attention to itself then surely throwing the flyers on the floor is the wrong way to go about rectifying the situation? A small piece of laminated paper in your pigeonhole is very easy to overlook, it's considerably harder to ignore the floor suddenly being covered in rainbows.
Just sayin'.
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Date: 2010-01-27 07:19 pm (UTC)... So, wait, who was it at Magdalene who refused to distribute the flyers? The College/Porters? 'Cause the Magdalene LBGT rep definitely organises stuff, seeing as how Newnham swapped with them last term, so he should definitely be getting the JCR president to take that up with College.
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Date: 2010-01-27 07:26 pm (UTC)It's puzzling, actually, because I wouldn't have expected Magdalene of all places to take that kind of stance. We had the last open meeting there, for crying out loud...
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Date: 2010-01-27 08:18 pm (UTC)My icon needs to happen to them, ya know *nods*
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Date: 2010-01-27 09:40 pm (UTC)(as for pulling them out of pigeon-holes - are you sure it wasn't just people flicking through their post and ditching them? I know that kinda tends to happen with most fliers... if people actually were doing it on purpose though that sucks :/ I bet it was the Christian Union, they're fucking creepy.)
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Date: 2010-01-27 11:43 pm (UTC)(come to the asexuality talk next Sunday I am totally organising it)
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