Miami (Oh) Editorial Is Butthurt Over Hilarious, “Offensive” House Names
When you’re walking amongst the houses at Miami of Ohio, you will find that instead of numbers, some houses are labeled by names. Some are funny, some are dumb, and some are in between. These include names such as: Jager Stadium, Sex On The Beech, Plan B, The Great Fratsby, and Tequila Mockingbird. My personal favorite is “Cherry Poppins.” It’s a simple, yet hilarious, take on Mary Poppins and what I assume is some cherry dessert she made.
It’s all in good fun, unless you’re this unnamed staff writer for The Miami Student. They take offense to some of the names because this is America 2015 and everyone has to be offended by something. They claim the names are degrading, sexist, and racist.
From The Miami Student:
House names such as “Smack My Bishop” and “How I Met Your Daughter” hold the same sentiment. These house names are nothing more than an ever-present equal to the sexist and disrespectful banners that caused controversy at Ohio State University two weeks ago.
How are these disrespectful? At some point in time, a dad’s daughter will meet a guy and the story will be called “How I Met Your Daughter.” Smack My Bishop is an awesome play on words. It reminds me of the time when Baseball Tonight was doing highlights for a Rangers game and said “Is Mitch going to have to hit a pitch?” when he hammered a home run. That’s funny, not disrespectful. This person needs to get their head outta their ass.
They don’t stop there, though. They think that there is one inherently racist house that needs to be stopped.
The one house that stands at the pinnacle of obscenity is “Plantation,” the large white colonial that bears an eerie resemblance to a slaveholder’s mansion. This house name is blatantly and unforgivingly racist.
This writer really just claimed that the word “plantation” is racist. Well, I’ll be damned. I guess that means the PGA’s own Kapalua Plantation course in Hawaii is racist. Shame on the PGA for being associated with such a word.
Maybe this writer should stop trying to tell people what to interpret as funny or offensive. He or she will enjoy life a lot more..
[via The Miami Student]
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Her dad never finding out how you met his daughter. TFM
10 years ago at 11:15 amThe PC Crowd- worse disease to hit America since cancer
10 years ago at 11:24 amLove the house names. Some favorites:
“Dying to Get In” used to be a morgue.
“Lovin’ On Her”, a play on Miami’s motto “Love&Honor”
“Niihkas in Paris”, niihka being the name of our homework website. I will not comment on the race of the house’s inhabitants.
One fine tradition is when neighboring houses “Octopussy” and “Main Sqeeze” have a joint rager called “Pussy Squeeze.”
I worked at the Miami Student. I was the only writer who was a straight male. Also the only writer who was in a fraternity or sorority.
The women of the Miami Student used to have discussions about why cigarette smoking on campus should constitute a fine, or why the school was at fault for a blind girl’s inability to become a veterinarian. They’re full of shit.
The faculty is filled with future overweight middle-age-GDI women who will someday work in an office setting. Their only joy will be found in water-cooler gossip and free-donut lunch meetings. They’ll no longer have a forum for their asinine opinions to be heard. They will wither and die. Just like their dreams.
But, gotta say, the best part of the job was interviewing police regarding the Great Fiji Fire and the PhiTau v. SAE Fireworks-and-Cocaine Massacre.
10 years ago at 11:41 amThis is the info I expected to see in the article.
10 years ago at 1:01 pmYou wrote all that and forgot Liquor Box?
10 years ago at 3:05 pmTo the writers point, I’m pretty sure she’s talking about how the house is called Plantation, and resembles one of the older ones as well, not simply because it was called Plantation. But I agree they’re overreacting, I go to Miami and no one that lives there is racist..
10 years ago at 11:44 amThe word “Plantation” itself is mainly used as an architectural term describing antebellum/neoclassical style architecture, which this house was consistent with. If you or the school newspaper hippie view the word “plantation” in any other light or interpretation other than it’s literal definition, you made something that isn’t about race, about race, which makes you the racist.
10 years ago at 5:53 pmDude. Context is everything. I’m not sure if you’re deliberately ignoring or just completely oblivious of the difference between a dad meeting his future son-in-law and the implied meaning of that sign. Either way, I’m guessing common sense isn’t something that appeals to you, much less a well-reasoned argument.
10 years ago at 12:10 pmDump em out.
10 years ago at 4:55 pmThis is dumb as hell.
10 years ago at 12:47 pmJust wanted to throw it out there that if you knew the first thing about publications you would know an editorial is written by the whole editing staff of a paper. Also, if you know how to flip a news page, the next page contains the name of every person who works for the paper. It’s okay though, I would expect nothing more from a “blog” as close minded and ignorant as this one. Keep trying though.
10 years ago at 2:04 pmI don’t believe you will be enjoying your stay here at TFM, perhaps your imput would be more welcome at slate or some other liberal website
10 years ago at 6:10 pmImput? Autocorrect get tired of your bullshit and quit trying?
10 years ago at 9:36 pmFucking liberals
10 years ago at 6:42 pmStupid people with no sense of humor offend me. But I guess I’m in the minority there
10 years ago at 6:46 pmThe writer probably belongs to one of the few minority groups on the campus.
10 years ago at 9:54 pm