by Survey for Apostrophe Magazine! Please help!
December 8, 2011 in Motion Graphic Design by vicki
The MGD course DMMC* is putting together Apostrophe magazine for January 2012. One of the articles is about dating in Ex’pression. Please take a moment to fill out this quick survey! The survey will be up until December 31. Your participation is greatly appreciated!
*Digital Media and Mass Communications
This poll is as an embarrassment.
LOL
Um.. what if it’s coming from a heterosexual female? Half the questions don’t apply. That’s some uneven stats you’re going to get o~o
If I was a woman and saw this I would stay a million miles away from Ex’pression College.
I agree. The women here deserve better than this.
Looks like I start coming to school dressed like a dude to get some respect, geez…
Not gonna lie, this is pretty offensive.
Why post this? Aren’t we try to in encourage more girls to join cause that just sad posting this.
Apparently all “average” women that go to Ex’pression College aren’t that attractive, but become more desirable just because we’re a small percentage at this school and not all guys want to be stuck with all this testosterone. I suppose I’m happy to be “average” because then maybe appearance won’t be an issue and people can like me for my PERSONALITY. Thank you for making that clear.
🙂
As a guy who is dating a fellow Ex’pression student these questions are ridiculous and extremely offensive, even to me as a male. For a school that is already male dominated I don’t see why any female would consider coming here after seeing something like this. Hopefully someone takes these down soon because they just put a sour taste in my mouth knowing that this is my school.
As a female student at this school, I find this completely pointless to what I am paying an arm and leg for and also offensive to who I am as a person. Why would there be an article about dating at Ex’pression? There is more to the female population of this school than “are we more attractive” because we are so far and few between. We have portfolios and work with the hope that there is no handicap because we are “women.” We are a force to be reckoned with in our own respective industries and collectively are sick of the “because you’re a girl.” This poll makes me feel the way I have in other work/education environments. Why would I want to continue at an institution that singles me out due to my physical makeup. I would never be singled out on tour like this or found more attractive because I’m the only girl on a tour bus with twenty guys. I have a job to do regardless of my looks and I have to get it done. I didn’t ask to be a girl nor did this school inform me that this is acceptable to be posted on the website when at orientation it was made very clear that sexism and homophobia would not be tolerated, yet I see forms of it everyday. This disgusts me!Apostrophe magazine should reassess their values.
This is a terrible survey that is extremely sexist.
Hello all.
I’ve forwarded the comments to the students who submitted the survey questions and asked them to review your comments.
I am sorry that their intentions have been misconstrued. I do not think it was not their intent to be sexist or offensive.
~vicki
I also apologize for not using more discretion with this post.
I appreciate all the comments and the traffic to the site! That is what it is here for. Please let us know what you’re thinking through comments, forum posts, or messages directly to OSA.
~vicki
This poll is offensive & should be removed.
To keep it 100 with all of you woman or not, I didn’t find this offensive at all. If you cant deal with something you read on the internet then stop using it. In the real world no one cares about you, everyone is a minority to someone else in one form or another. We should all practice keeping our feelings at the log-in button. There’s way bigger problems at hand in this school, than someone publishing what everyone is probably already thinking anyway. GET OVER IT.
If you find these questions to be offensive, maybe you’re not ready to accept the person staring back in the mirror. If you really love yourself and know who you are then, a couple of questions shouldn’t shake your self esteem. You really need to have thicker skin if you expect to survive in the real world where most people aren’t worried about protecting your feelings. If you see these questions as an attack or an attempt to put a gender down, then maybe it is your own mind forming these negative perspectives from harmless survey questions.
From the students who created the survey questions:
“The intent of this poll and the finalized article is neither to offend other females attending this school nor to point out which students are “average-looking” nor to discourage females from attending Ex’pression College. My only aim is to compile data and an honest opinion from the student body, so that I may write a truthful article that embodies the students at this school.
This article topic is about how much weight an attractive female holds at this school and if physical appearance even matters in this environment. I will also touch on the topic of dating other Ex’pression students.
To those that find this poll to be offensive:
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. ~Thich Nhat Hanh”
To those of you who posted along the lines of, if you are comfortable in your own skin than this shouldn’t bother you, you are either delusional, ignorant, or both. Saying that a person should “practice keeping our feelings at the log-in button” should apply to forum trolling or a site like reddit, but this is OUR SCHOOL’S website, not some random 4chan post. To me and many of my classmates, both male and female, posting “Do you think average looking female classmates are more attractive, due to the low population of girls at Ex’pression College?” is insulting and a blow to the self esteem of our own students. Do we want that to be the way our school is viewed? Even the faculty has voiced some of their disgust at this post, shouldn’t that say something? Regardless of the intentions of the original posters, and I have no doubt that they did not mean to offend anyone, this survey IS offensive, hurtful, and disgraceful on our school’s homepage. People have clearly voiced that, and telling students to get “thicker skin” because they don’t appreciate seeing insults through their own school’s site is just ridiculous.
I like you jnathan (NOT a come on)
It appears it’s not being taken down, which really is unacceptable at this point. For the sake of all of us.. males, females, faculty, prospective students, and the well-intentioned person who wrote it who undoubtedly is feeling embarrassed and ashamed beyond words.. let’s remove it and have it reworded so it can fairly explain the author’s original inoffensive intent.
It doesn’t matter if the intent was not to be offensive, BUT IT IS! With the outcry of faculty and students that have voiced their concern over this, one would think that it would be restructured and this poll would be taken down. I really don’t appreciate an apology one day for the content and the next the poll is acceptable. I have no issue looking at myself in the mirror and frankly don’t care what anyone thinks. I shouldn’t have to defend my position on the subject matter and be told to have thick skin. It’s offensive has always been offensive and maybe this class should take the HINT and fix it. Is it really that difficult to comprehend that more people have responded to this than pretty much anything on the site and the response has been negative. It’s really not that complicated, but this trolling war over feelings is ridiculous.
The fact is that there are much fewer woman that go to our school than men. Fortunately, we live in the United States, and you do not have the right to not be offended. 🙂
This subject is a reality. It is fine if you are offended by reality, but trying to label the individual who wrote the survey as a sexist is ridiculous.
I am happy to the see a school such as Ex’pression upholding our freedom to expression.
Seriously, how can this even be considered offensive. Doesn’t it seem logical that if there is a school with few females that those females would naturally attract more attention? Isn’t that okay to talk about? This is a politically correct sociological question.
This is a load of Bull s—-, grow up this isn’t high school. What a joke.