testing liberal Vermont

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Edgy snowboard graphics test liberal Vermont

BURLINGTON, Vt. - For Nicole Zarrillo, seeing a snowboarder with one of Burton Snowboards’ new Playboy designs at a Vermont ski slope underscored the reasons why many Vermonters - including her boss - are protesting the new men’s snowboards.

“When you really think about it, it’s a young man standing on top of a naked woman’s body,” said Zarrillo, 38, an office manager for a nonprofit based in Burlington, also home to Burton’s headquarters. “I probably could have gotten past it, because I try to have an open mind, but seeing it like that, it’s offensive.”

Burton Snowboards, located in Vermont’s largest city since 1992, cemented its reputation among Vermonters as a progressive company through employee benefits such as matching child-care payments and paying for half of a worker’s gym membership.

Yet the company has found itself at the center of a grow ing controversy in the liberal state, with residents, students, and politicians debating free speech and sexism on the ski slopes.

I love it.

“Leftists tolerant of all speech … until they come across speech with which they disagree with.”

Of course, that said, I think that it’s immature and wrong for a snowboard company to put porn stars on their snowboards, and it’s immature and wrong for so-called adults to buy and use such snowboards, especially in public.


Source: tjic.com