Columnist Touts Feminist Group's Guerilla Tactics As "Incredible Stupidity"
by Jim Brown
March 16, 2004
(AgapePress) - A conservative professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington is fed up with what he calls "feminist monkey business" on campus.Today, as part of Women's History Month at UNC-Wilmington, the school is hosting a speech by the "Guerilla Girls On Tour." The university is paying the group of three anonymous feminists $6,000 to dress up like apes, throw bananas at the audience, and according to conservative columnist Mike Adams, to campaign against President Bush.
Professor Mike Adams, who writes for TownHall.com, says the university-sponsored speech is not only an incredible waste of taxpayer money, but is also an extremely politically biased presentation.
"I can't figure out what upsets me the most," Adams says, "the university spending $6,000 on something that is so completely ridiculous, or the idea of them spending money on something that is so clearly intended to present one side and to encourage people to take one position in the upcoming election -- because they are clearly all about defeating George W. Bush this year."
The Guerilla Girls On Tour claim their objective is to "attack sexism and racism in the theater world, entertainment industry, and politics." However, Adams believes the group's tactics employ some of the very elements they claim to fight against. Some of the Guerilla Girls On Tour posters feature Bush administration officials such as Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and Colin Powell, standing in a cage, smiling and holding bananas -- an offensive parody the columnist suspects only liberal feminists could get away with.
"What if a bunch of fraternity boys went around on campus dressed as apes and began to throw bananas at people?" Adams wonders. "People would undoubtedly accuse them of racial insensitivity. Now you take someone who is black, put them in a cage holding a bunch of bananas -- I mean that is just the height of racial insensitivity when it is promoted by anyone else but a group of feminists."
Adams says the decision by the UNC-Wilmington Women's Resource Center to hire the Guerilla Girls on Tour, whose act he describes as "just incredible stupidity," is little more than a poorly disguised effort to funnel taxpayer dollars directly into the Democratic National Committee.
