'Tis More Blessed to Spittle than to Lickspittle!
Enjoy the foregoing YouTube, produced by Ben -- a student at the University of Mississippi and a commenter at AVFM. This video is also posted at AVFM, where I left the following comment in response:
Oh how I wish I could be there myself, to walk around the campus and tweak the noses (figuratively) of various people. There is an art to this, mind you.Let’s see now. . .If somebody handed me a white ribbon and asked me to take the pledge, I would rattle off a quick list of other things that I might pledge not to do, and would demand to know why they didn’t want me to take THOSE pledges.E.G. I pledge not to commit arson. . . . I pledge not to drive while drunk . . I pledge not to rob convenience stores. . . I pledge not to be a pickpocket who snatches watches. . . I pledge not to be a peeping Tom who . . eh . . . watches…. um….yes…. Okay! I pledge not to be a crooked stockbroker . . . I pledge not to superglue car door locks. . . I pledge not to kick fluffy kittens . . . I pledge not to eat food at the supermarket without paying for it . . . I pledge not to shoot heroin. . . I pledge…..I pledge. . . I pledge. . .!I would make clear how grossly offensive it would be, to ask a random stranger to take any such “pledges” as these — especially when you had no reason to assume that he would ever even commit any of the listed actions.And then I would demand to know why in hell the pledge they were presently asking me to take should be considered in any light other than what I had just described.Finally, I would grab that ribbon, thoroughly chew it up, and suavely offer it back to them laden with saliva -- "I don't care for the flavor; you keep it!" I would nonchalantly toss it on the ground if they didn’t take it, and then I would walk away.The possible variations of ad lib and nuance would be nearly infinite, but the key to this scenario would be timing, delivery, and aplomb.If you had a partner doing a video capture, that would be sheer perfection, and a gift to the movement that would keep on giving.Hey, you could EVEN post this little essay on a blog, and circulate the URL around campus.
posted by Fidelbogen at 9:25 PM
4 Comments:
So that is what the white ribbons that the two men out front of a Parliament were wearing for.
Do they ask any girls to wear it?
I remember some years ago some university had an anti-affirmative action bake sale that made pretty big news. They would sell random goods ticketed with lower prices depending on what race a person was, effectively pointing out how flawed affirmative action is. I think in this instance a reductio ad absurdam such as that was would called for. A counter campaign of purple ribbon day, wherein women are encouraged to wear the ribbon as a pledge of their oath that they will not condone or commit violence on men. Perhaps were young college men prepared with DV statistics to show that the violence is equal, they could make an effective point on how screwed up the white ribbon campaign was.
I just about died laughing, my husband's brother is back from Iraq and I humorously posited the White Ribbon scenario to him and he said, "Well, it depends, did she do anything to deserve to get punched?" oh, if only he could have been in such a situation with one of those women! Asking a man so stupid a question deserves such an answer! :D
@Rouise:
No, they do not ask girls to wear it, because girls are 100% innocent and nice, and blameless in all things. ;)
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