My RA just asked me to take this picture off my door:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

She said "Keep profanity off your board please. It might offend someone." Should I take it down? There's only another week and a half of the semester. Should I just leave it up, or should I take it down and just chalk it up to living in the bible belt buckle?
Duckie

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Just take it down...you can pay the guy back later..

...

[everythingsxen]

2. If you can find something to put over...

the "FUCK" in the poster - you could change it to "Heck" or "Frag" or something. Same effect and then its legal for your uptight RA.

[dweller]

16. now that's a good idea

'RA' comes to mind as a replacement.

dp

[T Bone]

20. Just shut the Bush up !

Tape the word Bush over fuck. Everyone who has seen it will agree that Bush is a fuck. A dumb fuck.

[TN al]

3. You might argue that it should stay up...

...based on a free speech issue but the message you are sending could be construed as anti-free speech. The incongruity there just makes my head spin. I think you should take it down.

[skooooo]

4. It *might* offend someone??

Sounds to me like there hasn't been any complaints. I don't know, I'd leave it up. But, I tend to be more on the obnoxious side.

[Badger1]

5. Answer

Just cover up the U in fuck. And if any more shit tell them to shut the fuck up. It's your right. Right?

[Township75]

6. As much as I laughed at the picture...

I think you should take it down. This is a drawback to living in a dorm. Parents, younger siblings and other people will be in your dorm reading your picture and may not find it funny, or may be offended.

This is dorm life.

[liberalhistorian]

18. Well, I say tough shit to that!

Part of dorm life, at least as I remember it, was to learn to live with a wide variety of different people with different views and tastes without killing each other.

I remember seeing things a lot worse than that on people's doors and in their rooms, and everyone survived just fine. If some people are "offended", tough shit. I'm offended that I would have to remove something from my own door just because someone else is offended.

And if there's only a week left in the semester, what the hell is the big deal?

[Name removed]

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[liberalhistorian]

30. You could approach me without the

personal attacks, you know, that was uncalled for. I am hardly the "perfect candidate for a Hummer or the repub party", and you damn well know that.


But be that as it may, where do you draw the line? Who decides what is "offensive" and what isn't, and what gives them the right to do so?

For example, when I was in college, I had a picture of a pro-choice march I had attended in D.C. on my door. One of the other residents complained about it because it "offended her pro-life sensibilities." In other words, it bothered her that someone held an opinion on abortion different from hers. The picture wasn't offensive (we're talking me with some friends standing on the mall with our pro-choice signs) but, because it disagreed with HER opinion, she wanted it taken down.

Yet, if she or anyone else had put up a pro-life sign, picture, etc., I would have had no problem with that even though I totally disagreed with it. So, where do you draw the line and who has the right to decide? THAT is the real issue.

Yes, of course, I see your point as far as racist postings and that type of thing, but that isn't the case here. Very few people would be dumb enough in this day and age to do that, anyway.

[LastKnight]

7. i love it, where can i find one? nt

[YellowRubberDuckie]

12. I guess you could save it from here. That's the size of mine...

I have several little quirky things. I'm surprised she's not more insulted by this

Duckie

[yellowdawgdem]

8. what's an ra?

I'd take it down if this person can in any way cause you probs in the future. I know how shitty it feels, though. I've gotten plenty pissed at my apt. mgr(s) for similar stuff. Just don't knock over any giant screen tv's though.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Resident Assistant.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. Just cover the U up with bushies face... or asscroft's

and leave it.

[PittPoliSci]

10. leave it up.

if they say something again, kick your RA right in the groin.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. LMAO

I don't know if that would work...she's a chick.
Duckie

[mac56]

14. just take it down

A former RA here. He or she probably got a complaint and a "request" to "deal with it". RAs have a shitty job.

[Mr. Blonde]

15. My RA

Is pretty cool, no alcohol is allowed in the dorms here. And one of my roommates answered the door and found our RA waiting, and not a word from him about the beer. Of course I think I am lucky as some of the RAs in my dorm are a little on the anal retentive side.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

27. Are you in oklahoma as your avatar would suggest?

And if so, where do you go to school?
And by the way, welcome welcome welcome to DU!!
Duckie

[DBoon]

17. What bullshit!!

When I was in college, no RA would DARE tell a student to take something like this down.

The RA would have been laughed out of the university.

Of course, I'm so old, we used to hike ten miles in the snow just to cop a bing hit....

[Aunt Anti-bush]

19. Just cover up the 'f' word they don't like

with a sticker marked "CENSORED".

[tigereye]

21. my so liked that sign so much that he wants one too

he also liked your other poster as well!

[felonious thunk]

23. Fight another fight

It's funny and I like it, but it's reasonable that you were asked to take it down. It's not a political statement or a reflection of a viewpoint per se. You should be allowed to keep it up, but is it really worth the fight? If it were a whitehouse.org poster, mocking Bush, then I'd say fight that fight, but this isn't overtly making a statement, it's just funny.

[WillParkinson]

24. She obviously didn't read the poster...

She opened her mouth before she thought.

[soleft]

25. Take it down and put up something more politically subversive

without the profanity

[Lisa0825]

26. Just curious, where do you go to school?

I went to Baylor. I would think private schools generally exert more control over students behavior. If it was a public school, I'd be more likely to say leave it up.

[DoNotRefill]

28. Put a * over the u....

simple, still gets your message across, and isn't profane.

[AntiCoup2K4]

29. Put this one up instead (and see if they get the joke)

[truthspeaker]

31. tell her to fuck off

A college student offended by profanity? Please.

[cheezus]

32. follow the rules, make a point, make the RA look dumb all in one!

make a sticker the size of FUCK and write on it ( censored this word

then slap it over the offending word.

[WillParkinson]

36. OOH! OOH!

I vote for this one!

[ZenLefty]

33. Pick your battles.

This one isn't worth it. I'd take it down.

[tjwash]

34. Keep your poster up, and stick this one next to it...

And then get a part time job, some roommates, and move the into your own place. If you are living with a group of people such as a dorm, you are just going to have to abide by someone else's rules. It's the nature of the beast...

[HEyHEY]

35. Fuck, my old editor had the same poster in his office

Take it down, it'll be a useless squable, no political message so you'll end up looking silly

[proud patriot]

37. I would just cover up the U C K

...Needle needle ...

take her specific complaint literally . :hi: