2008 Woodie Awards
Football dance displays ignorance
Holly Meyer
Issue date: 10/25/07 Section: Opinion
The SIUE Club Football team needs to stop focusing on its dance moves and start representing the university and the people that are a part of it with more respect and class.
On youtube.com, after typing in SIUE Football, a video titled "SIUE Football Soulja Boy Crank that" pops up. The video is of the SIUE Club Football team dancing in their SIUE uniforms to "Crank That" by Soulja Boy after they won the 2007 Homecoming game against Marquette University. Uploaded on Oct. 11, the video displays teamwork, pride and collective ignorance.
As the football team copies 17-year-old rapper Soulja Boy's dance moves, they ignore the degrading message their collective spirit is sending.
The message is not in the catchy beat of the song, or the fancy dance moves, but in the lyrics, namely "super man dat ho." The words may not sound like much, but after a quick online search, the general consensus of what super man-ing a ho means is disgusting, insulting and offensive.
"Super man dat hoe" refers to a male ejaculating on a female's back with or without her permission. Her back is then covered with a sheet. In the morning, the dry ejaculate has sealed the sheet to the females back creating the illusion of a cape.
The argument has been made that no one listens to lyrics; it is just about the dance. However, this song's lyrics not only tell how to do the dance, but they also guide the dancer through the moves. Besides, if lyrics were not important, why are they a part of almost every mainstream song?
Soulja Boy's lyrics promote the degradation of women through sexual abuse and violence. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest Nation Network's Web site, somewhere in America a person is sexually assaulted every two and a half minutes. Not only do we not need music artists promoting sexual abuse, we definitely do not need the SIUE Club Football team sharing in the belittlement of women. They are the ones that chose this song to celebrate an SIUE victory.
The football team needs to take responsibility for the negative messages they are promoting. Even if they do not care what the words mean, when they are in their SIUE uniforms it reflects back on every member of the university. In this case, it makes everyone appear as supporters of super man-ing hos.
The SIUE Club Football team should follow a common athletic conduct code. Don't do anything stupid while in uniform because everyone will know who you are, where you are from and whom you represent.
On youtube.com, after typing in SIUE Football, a video titled "SIUE Football Soulja Boy Crank that" pops up. The video is of the SIUE Club Football team dancing in their SIUE uniforms to "Crank That" by Soulja Boy after they won the 2007 Homecoming game against Marquette University. Uploaded on Oct. 11, the video displays teamwork, pride and collective ignorance.
As the football team copies 17-year-old rapper Soulja Boy's dance moves, they ignore the degrading message their collective spirit is sending.
The message is not in the catchy beat of the song, or the fancy dance moves, but in the lyrics, namely "super man dat ho." The words may not sound like much, but after a quick online search, the general consensus of what super man-ing a ho means is disgusting, insulting and offensive.
"Super man dat hoe" refers to a male ejaculating on a female's back with or without her permission. Her back is then covered with a sheet. In the morning, the dry ejaculate has sealed the sheet to the females back creating the illusion of a cape.
The argument has been made that no one listens to lyrics; it is just about the dance. However, this song's lyrics not only tell how to do the dance, but they also guide the dancer through the moves. Besides, if lyrics were not important, why are they a part of almost every mainstream song?
Soulja Boy's lyrics promote the degradation of women through sexual abuse and violence. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest Nation Network's Web site, somewhere in America a person is sexually assaulted every two and a half minutes. Not only do we not need music artists promoting sexual abuse, we definitely do not need the SIUE Club Football team sharing in the belittlement of women. They are the ones that chose this song to celebrate an SIUE victory.
The football team needs to take responsibility for the negative messages they are promoting. Even if they do not care what the words mean, when they are in their SIUE uniforms it reflects back on every member of the university. In this case, it makes everyone appear as supporters of super man-ing hos.
The SIUE Club Football team should follow a common athletic conduct code. Don't do anything stupid while in uniform because everyone will know who you are, where you are from and whom you represent.
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Anonymous
posted 10/25/07 @ 4:12 PM CST
First off I would like to say that the SIUE Club Football team does a lot of good for the university and community. They provide there time to help out with charitable causes and fundraising activities. (Continued…)
B. Blake
posted 10/25/07 @ 5:15 PM CST
I would tend to agree with the first comment posted, that the players actually meant no harm in doing this dance. Unfortunately, what this says to me is that the football club is certainly not a thinking organization. (Continued…)
Football Grandmother
posted 10/25/07 @ 7:42 PM CST
Holly, You need to CHILL OUT. The players on this football team did not intentionally or blatantly mean to degrade or disrespect women. It appears that you must have been LOOKING for a reason to sound off about the team. (Continued…)
Mr. Alumni
posted 10/25/07 @ 8:09 PM CST
Just FYI...please complain about the same with the Texas Longhorns, University of Texas and the host of women dancing to the song, beat and moves. They are all on YouTube as well!!!!!!! Sometimes we just take things too far. (Continued…)
Club Football Supporter
posted 10/25/07 @ 9:40 PM CST
Holly, this article is a great bit of BS at its finest. Club Football does a great deal of good for our university. I know many of the members personally and they are a bunch of great guys who are not out to degrade women or "superman dat ho". (Continued…)
Jillian926
Anonymous
posted 10/25/07 @ 9:44 PM CST
Hey Holly.. focus on your dance moves and maybe you will realize why that song was chosen by club football! its a fun dance and the song has a great beat!
Chris B
posted 10/26/07 @ 9:24 AM CST
First, we do not attend the University of Texas. I don't care how their students represent their school, I care about how our school is represented.
Second, doing a good deed and a lousy one do not cancel each other out. (Continued…)
Margaret
posted 10/26/07 @ 10:26 AM CST
Ignorance does not imply purposeful intent to hurt others, it means not knowing. I believe that this dance does show ignorance - they made a bad decision NOT knowing that it would have a negative connotation. (Continued…)
Dre D
posted 10/26/07 @ 11:52 AM CST
Look Holly, You might want to open your eyes to the what the song is talking about. it's just a dance nothing more. anything else is what other people make it for themselves. (Continued…)
Who let that woman speak?
posted 10/26/07 @ 3:54 PM CST
Get back in the kitchen after you finish the laundry!
I admit, I giggled about the Superman thing....it's funny.
We as a society are so overly sensitive anymore, it has gotten completely out of control. (Continued…)
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