Either Way, the Victim

Unthinking victimhood in Ann Arbor:

Kristoff Wennersten figured his prom proposal had to be one-of-a-kind if it would have any chance of being accepted.

But the Huron High School senior never imagined it would result in a suspension for himself and 12 of his varsity lacrosse teammates, whom he recruited to help spell out the message at a school soccer match via their derrieres.

The players displayed the question, "Will You Go To The Prom With Me? Yes or No?" on their posteriors while mooning Huron senior Carolyn Campbell at a game.

All 13 players were suspended for a undetermined number of games and ordered to complete 20 hours of community service.

Okay, so the lacrosse team mooned a girl, and got suspensions for it. Do they need strong justice in this case? Well, only because they mooned a girl, according to their athletic director:

"Inappropriate is inappropriate," Huron athletic director Dottie Davis said Monday after meeting with lacrosse varsity players and their parents. "It disrespects women, and that's the clear message we need to have the students understand - what may be fun to them isn't necessarily fun to everyone else." [emphasis added]

Except that the "woman" in question clearly wasn't offended or disrespected, as she herself indicates in the next paragraph:

Campbell, who accepted the prom invitation by patting the lower back of the player displaying the word 'Yes,' described Wennersten's method as "cute" and said she wasn't upset by the manner in which she was asked.

If the situation were turned around, and it were the girls' lacrosse team mooning a guy, I suspect Dottie Davis would still find a way to blame the male-dominance franchise for it.

Posted on Apr 30, 2008 at 11:19:50 AM EDT.