Brief: Zeta pledge: I did not read ‘Sluts’ sign
The Zeta Psi pledge who was shown holding a derogatory sign in front of the Yale Women’s Center in a photograph that surfaced last weekend has spoken publicly for the first time — and says he did not even read the sign before he held it up.
In a televised interview Wednesday night with WTIC-TV, the Hartford Fox affiliate, Giovanni Christodoulou ’11 said the Zeta pledges were participating in a scavenger hunt when they posed in front of the Women’s Center with a sign that read “We Love Yale Sluts.”
“I never even read the sign,” Christodoulou, a wide receiver and defensive...
wow...even Yale football players can be reduced to emasculated lumps of mush. If you did it, take responsibility as it being a form of protest against the tyranny and irrationality of the Womyn's Center. Boldly proclaim that their obsessive compulsive behavior which has been condoned as legitimate political action needed to be poked a bit. Say boldly that it was satire (which always has a bit of distasteful overtones) which nonetheless reveals some truth, just as the Sphincter Troupe used vulgar generalizations about your fraternity in a public forum. Say you'd do it again. In other words, be a man.
Look: Larry Summers caved (and coughed up $50 mil); you think some Yale frosh pledge has more chutzpah???
In summation: Student unknowingly holds up derogatory, offensive sign. But don't worry, he is really good at sports.
Mr. Christodoulou is to be congratulated on having formulated an excuse for bad behavior that is so breathtakingly lame that it can only be described as "Clintonian."
Forgive the poor boy, for goodness' sake. After all, he can't read and he plays amazing football!
Also, thanks to the YDN for ending this article not with real information or comments about the repercussions of these sexist acts, but with an admiring account of his (surely deserved) athletic prowess. If he had been a great musician, or done a lot of tutoring in his time at Yale, would it have been mentioned in the same way?
"If he had been a great musician, or done a lot of tutoring in his time at Yale, would it have been mentioned in the same way?"
Sure it would. Though I wouldn't say that "doing a lot of tutoring" is as impressive as being a talented athlete, musician, journalist, etc.
Zzzzzzz....
I bet that he thought that the sign said, "We love the Yale Women's Center and the support that they give to female students."
Ha.
But at least he's a REALLY good football player.
And I never inhaled, either!