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November 15, 2011
An Offensive Survey!: Buffalo (Wyo.) High football coach Pat Lynch resigned his position after he offered a questionnaire to his players so they could easily explain the reason of any hurt feelings in the locker room. Reason for filing this report (Check box): "I am a queer", "I have woman like hormones", "I am a little bitch". Also, please provide the name of the "real man who hurt your sensitive little feelings" and your own "girly-man signature". Now that he has resigned, he can continue to focus his efforts as a, wait for it...... Guidance Counselor, yep.
From the picture, I cant see this guy getting angry.
posted by Debo270 at 08:06 AM on November 15, 2011
Let me guess, he thinks that *everything* is just more evidence of the wussification of America.
posted by NoMich at 09:16 AM on November 15, 2011
He put a lot of time in that survey, which shows what an asshole he really is.
I'm pretty sure he spent almost zero time on the survey, as it looks like one of those things that gets emailed among people as a "Haha look at this!" joke.
posted by grum@work at 09:25 AM on November 15, 2011
Yeah, real funny. Wonder if he's still laughing! Moron.
posted by BikeNut at 12:19 PM on November 15, 2011
I knew I'd seen something like this before. The Army Hurt Feelings Report Form.
posted by Errant at 03:15 PM on November 15, 2011
It's hard to imagine a job that he is less suited for than guidance counselor.
Motivational speaker?
posted by Joey Michaels at 03:51 PM on November 15, 2011
Well, judging from the looks of him, there's a job that he would be extremely well suited for.
Probably doesn't pay much.
The authorities are always looking for extra hombres to fill out police lineups. He'd be a natural in any of them.
posted by beaverboard at 04:27 PM on November 15, 2011
The article doesn't explain why he gave out that questionnaire.
If there weren't really any complaints, and he just thought the survey he found on the web was funny, then perhaps too much was made of this.
He did not write that himself, so he spent no time on it. It appears to be a joke that went south. In bad taste to be sure, and in this politically correct time that we live in, one shouldn't make offensive remarks.
posted by dviking at 09:05 PM on November 15, 2011
in this politically correct time that we live in--
I think you lose internet arguments for a month for using that set of words in that order.
posted by etagloh at 10:43 PM on November 15, 2011
nah, when you're my age, and thus can remember when jokes didn't necessarily cause national alarm, you get a pass.
Besides, I wasn't really arguing anything.
posted by dviking at 06:25 PM on November 16, 2011
nah, when you're my age, and thus can remember when jokes didn't necessarily cause national alarm, you get a pass.
I don't remember fondly the time when people could make nigger jokes with impunity. I prefer these PC times.
posted by bperk at 08:32 PM on November 16, 2011
Growing up in Texas in the '70s, we played "smear the queer" and went "nigger-knocking." God bless political correctness.
posted by rcade at 09:46 PM on November 16, 2011
Jokes of questionable taste are still very much told with impunity. By comedians. In clubs or on stage in a room full of adults that understand that they are jokes. Maybe not right, and certainly not PC, but it happens nonetheless.
But when those jokes are told by a high school football coach/guidance counselor to 15 year old boys in a locker room, it seems way off base.
posted by BoKnows at 10:18 PM on November 16, 2011
If there weren't really any complaints, and he just thought the survey he found on the web was funny, then perhaps too much was made of this.
Perhaps, and perhaps not. Just because no one complained (15 year old boy complaining about the coach that can cut you, on a subject where you risk social ostracism at best for choosing the other side) doesn't mean no one was bothered by it. Just because no one was bothered by it (if that is the case) doesn't mean no one was harmed. I remember once being out for drinks with coworkers, all white, when a white manager made a racist joke about an African-American coworker who was not present. With a little bit of thought, I think you can see several reasons why that wasn't a "no harm done" situation.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 04:37 PM on November 20, 2011
It's hard to imagine a job that he is less suited for than guidance counselor. This was not some off-the-cuff thing. He put a lot of time in that survey, which shows what an asshole he really is.