Hot Harvard Girls Face Off! 64 of Them. No Mud Included.

[GoodTaste]

Does "Hot Harvard Girls Face Off! 64 of Them. No Mud Included" mean "Hot Harvard Girls come into competition! 64 of Them. No Mud Included (does the mud here mean "someone who is very disliked"?)"?

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Hot Harvard Girls Face Off! 64 of Them. No Mud Included.
March Madness? That is so last month. A nationwide rally modeled after NCAA’s famous brackets has developed a new contest

Source: The Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/5/5/hot-harvard-girls-face-off-64/

 

[PeterCW]

The beauty contest is being compared a wrestling match. Google will find you more than you want to know about mud wrestling.

 

[GoesStation]

And note that the quoted page is fifteen years old. I very much doubt the editors of Harvard's student newspaper would consider publishing such a story today.

 

[GoodTaste]

Does "NCAA’s famous brackets" in the OP refer to "NCAA’s famous classifications"?

 

[GoodTaste]

'Brackets' are explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Madness_pools

Sorry. Wikipedia has been blocked here.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Sorry. Wikipedia has been blocked here.

It says:

March Madness pools are a form of sports betting based on the annual NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament each spring in the United States. The increasing interest in this event is fostered by March Madness pools, or brackets. A bracket is a form that can be completed on-line or printed out and completed by hand whereby the participant predicts the outcome of each game in the tournament. His or her predictions are compared against others in the pool, and whoever has the best prognostication skills wins the contest.

 

[GoesStation]

I hadn't spotted that, and was extremely surprised to read that piece. It sounds positively antediluvian.

I suppose you're aware that Facebook started as a web page for rating the hotness of people Zuckerberg surely referred to as "Harvard girls".

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I suppose you're aware that Facebook started as a web page for rating the hotness of people Zuckerberg surely referred to as "Harvard girls".

Ow! I'll never be able to unread that.

 

[GoodTaste]

While it is now clear that the word "girl" should be used with great caution, it is different for Harvard, who leads the tide of times, after all.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

While it is now clear that the word "girl" should be used with great caution, it is different for Harvard, which leads the tide of times, after all.

Don't be so sure!

And remember that we're trying to show you more than just grammar and vocabulary. This is a lesson in English language culture, which is important if you want to communicate effectively. You need to be able to recognize (and, we hope, avoid) sexist language.

What might be fine in China might not be fine in the West. Here, we show respect for women by calling them women. (We also show men respect by calling them men, but in the US, boy is a racist term, not a sexist one. Isn't culture interesting?)

I know I would make lots of mistakes in manners if I traveled to China. We want to spare you some trouble here.