Stick it where? Who's sticking what? Why are we "sticking" anything in? Do these commonly unanswered questions ring a provocatively, sexually explicit bell?
If you think so, then you join the thousands of people who are questioning the ethics of our Hokie cheer. This hip-thrusting football chant is designed to make students feel exhilarated, raunchy and somewhat like a tease while adults participate as an attempt to clutch and grope their past.
When broken down to the logistics of these chosen words, this chant is quite vulgar and shows a great misrepresentation of both sexes.
Not only does this suggest the raping and pillaging of women, it also suggests that man's only purpose is reproduction and establishing dominance.
On the other hand, this football chant is out of facetiousness and is to be taken as a drop in the bucket. Yes, it is uncouth, uncivilized and animalistic, but whatever happened to the freedom of expression?
Are we just going to disregard the college standard of upholding the first amendment through tattoos, piercings, free love, and Stick It In, come hell or high water? There is also yet another problem with the chanting dilemma: our actions not only reflect ourselves, but the university.
If Virginia Tech were to become the streaking capital of college campuses, the approval and acceptability of the institution would plummet faster than a drunken girl's panties at a keg party.
Is it that we're grooming a society full of four-inch mini skirts and boxers on parade? Or are we merely becoming too uptight about a few words in our "free" college community?
If analyzed, the salute to scoring has several assorted meanings; however, we will only thrust ourselves into the main arguments of scoring and "scoring."
To take the matter firmly in sports terms, the fans mean to say, "Would you please score a touchdown."
This is a generally accepted form of talking about scoring; even the ESPN announcers say stick it in the end zone.
Does this mean it is reasonable to say so? It's probably not the best choice of language. On the other hand, the hand that's flicking off "The Man," we have the purely carnal interpretation; man sticks penis in woman.
Whether wanted or not, society depicts the man as a piece of meat and the girl as a soft, lost lamb who is vulnerable to the male species. This could also be taken a second and third way as well.
The woman could be considered a whore for "sticking" it in because obviously overt comfort with sexuality is a terrible trait for women.
In addition to the above, this could also be a slogan for rape; not something for which anybody wants to become the poster child. Men are supposed to show their masculinity by maintaining control over their women and keeping them fenced in.
Meanwhile, women are expected to organize the household and maintain composure using methods that would make a diagnosed OCD patient crazy.
These kinds of detail-specific gender roles are too heavily played up in contemporary society and furthermore, they contribute to the multitude of stereotypes that place completely irrational labels on groups of people.
Men and women should not be expected to adhere to standards that have been neatly folded and placed in their hands like clean laundry.
However, they should pave their own way by taking different ideas from various people and merging them to form their own opinions. The cheer represents that which is salacious, flippant and frivolous, and as a by-product, society has diverse opinions on the matter.
Struggling between the roles we're supposed to play and the ones we'd like to cast ourselves in creates a kind of surface tension in society. The cheer causes problems with the uptight end of the community as well as super-concerned members of the female sex.
No doubt there are serious implications with this chant, and the issues of rape, male or female dominance, labels, and stereotypes should never be taken with alcohol, only water.
Personally, I can't decide if I feel violated enough to want to stop the chant, or if I take it with such frivolity that it doesn't make sense to get rid of it.
The shout definitely brings unity to the stands and is undoubtedly rousing to the crowd. Young and old alike enjoy acting immature and giggling at the seventh grade gestures.
However, on the critical flip side, it encourages the flagrant violation of women as well as the beef cake effect for men.
Downsizing rape and playing up "getting laid" is certainly not anyone's idea of a wonderful football game. "Stick It In" represents the entire Hokie nation.
Do we really want to let the post-tragedy image of Tech be Stick It In?