It was terrible for many other reasons too. Including lack of action from the mods. Who deleted my below thread:
“I don’t think I’m alone as an Iowan and Hawkeye and alumnus to ask everyone to remember that this is a public forum, read by mothers, teenage recruits, kids, etc, and it’s no longer acceptable in this day and age to tolerate language like “pussy” or “vag” or say “get your panties in a bunch” or “butthurt” or anything else that demeans members of the Hawkeye family or our families. Girls. Women. Gay. Lesbian. Trans. Anyone. Everyone.
I’m a father of two boys, both of whom spent some time studying at the UI, and my wife works at the UIHC, and we are part of the Hawkeye family too. What hurts anyone in that family does hurt us too. Isn’t that what family means?
I’m asking everyone here to remember that your words and actions have consequences. They do hurt. Hatred goes around and comes around. On the other side, it’s possible to discuss without insult, picking apart words without attacking people personally.
It’s just friggin football after all. Or basketball. Etc.
So why get ugly about it? It’s about having fun. A random group of people talking it up at a local bar, people of all backgrounds, one common interest.
Does it really make you feel better to bash Brock Purdy or Iowa State? Is big brother a man in any way by bashing “little brother”, or is he just being an A$$ and a bully and too often, a bigot?
Grow up finally. Find ways to make the world a better place. Even here on these forums.
Your insults, your denigration of women, your intolerance, your unwillingness to admit how pathetic it is to bash football players and teams and all women and all gay people and others with your language, like we see from the White House, are unbefitting of respectability in any sense of the term.
And unmanly. And un-Iowan. And un-Iowa Hawkeyes.
We are better than this. Like The Wave. Like Megan Gustafson.
Some of the kids and parents we Wave to are gay. Some of them are girls and women.
They are part of our family too.
We are Iowans. We are Hawkeyes.
When anyone here who thinks it’s a ok to call someone a pussy on a public forum connected to a great university and athletic program, or vote for someone who brags about grabbing women by the pussies - and does - among thousands of other God awful lies and hateful and ugly and violent words by any and every measure, especially measures from those who call themselves religious or even Christians, and finally looks in the mirror and thinks about the truth and the consequences, and The Truth, he will have grown up into a respectable man.
We must be better. The mods and owners must help us be better too, and shouldn’t tolerate the level of bigotry and bullying on this site, especially since they’re profiting from it. They will find that more people will join the community if it’s more mature, welcoming, and representative of the true Iowan and Hawkeye family, which is a very big family in a very big and diverse set of communities.
We all share the responsibility, but those who have the power to be more responsible must step up, own it, and change. You can’t have it both ways.
Peace and Happy New Year!”
