Editor,
I am amused at the letters and comments printed in the Daily Lobo from women speaking out against the injustices of racism, sexism, campus rapes and the alleged sexist comments of a certain faculty member.
Have they failed to see the irony of having these demands for respect, equality, safety and the end of sexual harassment printed in a paper that regularly carries advertisements for "girls" in a "totally nude review" and a club that has women slither on the floor to earn dollars from men?
Perhaps they don't see a connection between on campus advertisements that support the degradation of women and their own struggles on campus with lewd frat boys and sexist professors. Perhaps they don't think there's a relationship between the pictures in the Daily Lobo depicting women as mere objects for male satisfaction, and their own frustrations trying to break through the "old boy's club" in their professions.
If these connections - if the irony - is so hard to see, then women in the UNM community must be wearing veils as opaque as any in the Islamic world.
If using a University-affiliated pulpit to spread an offensive message is grounds for firing a faculty member, then should it also be grounds for firing the editor and advertising manager of the Daily Lobo?
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I'm sure there are many people out there who are not offended by the sexploitation ads in the Lobo. Just as I'm sure there are many people who were not offended by Professor Berthold's remark.
What we should all be offended by is hypocrisy, and there has been plenty of that from all sides.
Autumn Bell
UNM staff
