My first reaction to Jessica Bittner’s article “Perverts on the loose, close your curtains” was that of distaste, as I could not get past the first idiotic paragraph. Despite what your “reliable sources” may say, in my three years at Iowa State I have never come across a single high-powered telescope.

I brushed it aside and gave it little thought. At lunch, however, a friend of mine was reading the article out loud, and I became enraged. Comments like “extracurricular circle jerk” and “what else is a horny guy to do?” made by Princess Bittner are so far out of line it’s unbelievable that they were able to see print.

You thought that “in this day and age, men were more mature?”

I don’t know where the mountain of maturity is that Ms. Bittner lives on, but how come I can’t take a pee in Birch Hall on the weekend without some drunk-ass, derelict female stumbling into my bathroom, forcing me to zip up way too early?

I don’t know about the rest of the guys out there, but this “sensitive ’90s man” would like to be able to pee at his urinal in privacy. But then again, I’m just a perverted guy, so what the hell would I know about privacy, right?

A woman has no right to stereotype all guys as peeping perverts.

There are perverted guys out there, but there are perverted women too.

Just ask those who line up on Linden’s veranda to watch the frat boys dance naked.

That may be different, as they are exhibitionists, but are you telling me that there’s a woman in the world who doesn’t like that kind of attention?

I mean, do women really need to be told to close their curtains?

This doesn’t seem like common sense to anyone? If you don’t want people looking at you, then close the damn curtains!

If you see a guy peeping through someone’s window, don’t get mad at him. Well, OK, you can be mad at him, but you’ve got to be mad at the subject of the peeping as well because undressing in front of your window with the curtains open is indeed exhibitionism.

In the future, Ms. Bittner, please don’t write articles with a common sense purpose for the sake of degrading someone.

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Noah Banwarth

Junior

Computer science