School mascots can be awesome or ridiculously lame, but regardless, students across the country adopt their new symbols and they become a part of their identity. For instance, in Washington, the big question is, "Are you a Husky or a Coug?" And people even sell apples with little doggies and kitties on them during bowl season.
Here's an interesting aspect to mascots, though... do they have genders? For many, it seems irrelevant, say in the case of animal mascots. (Although, the person wearing the costume and running around the field? I think we tend to assume that it's a guy.)
I don't know the full story-- or there's even much of a story behind this-- but the University of Toledo is trying to establish a female mascot, and has asked students to pick her name. Because, well... the rocket mascot, Rocky, is apparently a boy. Never mind the fact that a rocket is, well, a rocket. With no gender to begin with.
This isn't very long, but yeah, I'm finding the whole stink pretty interesting.
http://journals.utoledo.edu/justin/2011/07/06/is-rocky-really-a-boy/
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