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As I'm looking at these pictures of some amazing snowy constructions ... I'm reminded of a story told to me by one of the (rare) males students at Bryn Mawr ... I'm not presenting him as totally undamaged ... the man is sufficiently whipped that he took his wife's religion (hey, I respect him on this one) and her last name (I give him a hard time on this).
Anyway ... he describes a situation there at Bryn Mawr where some fuzzy-headed feminists decided that the maypole was too oppressive a male image (excuse me, but apparently they missed that tidbit of info on May 1, Beltane, being a pagan fertility festival ... and the maypole is SUPPOSED to be a phallic symbol) ...
So anyway ... the traditional Maypole was banned from the campus. It was replaced by the "Mayhole" which was apparently a sufficiently vaginal goddess symbol to make them happy.
(I don't have a problem with feminism, per se ... big fan of equal pay for equal work here ... what I have a problem with is using gender in the same way the race card gets played. I spent my undergraduate and graduate career studiously avoiding classes in 'women's studies' largely because I didn't think it was right to pay my hard-earned cash to sit in a room for three hours a week to discuss how much men suck. That's not fun, or educational for me.)
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