Duke Students Still Leaning Asshole

I’m not sure when Duke University gained the reputation for having douchebag students, or precisely when it was formally validated by science, but it seems borne out by repeated anecdotal evidence. Several incoming Duke Freshmen went onto Facebook to announce their Christian moral principles would be compromised if they were to read one of the five summer books the university suggested for all new students. Namely Fun Home. Your typical graphic novel about a girl who grows up with a dad in a funeral home business, who comes out as a lesbian only to discover that her dad too is secretly homosexual. That’s a lot of gay, but that’s also college.

The entire point of spending a boatload of your parent’s cash on four years of softly date raping co-eds and painting your face blue is to open your mind to shit that wasn’t allowed in your high school. If you’re talking any major university in 2015, that’s going to include a ton of gay literature. If your Christian values preclude you from even reading about abominations in fictitious form, then go to a school that fits your needs. Also, don’t read the Bible because there’s tons of Fun Home shit in there. Announcing your disagreement with school policies before you even arrive on campus for your first day seems kind of dickish. Sorry, I meant Dukish. See how I did that? Now, where the fuck is that barrette?

Photo credit: Fun Home