The editorial board of the University of Florida’s independent newspaper The Alligator recently came under fire for this brilliant take on the crisis in Haiti:
Besides the WTF factor — is it trying to say that donating to earthquake victims is better than sex? or that it’s so easy you can do it while f***ing? — the cartoon was labelled remarkably offensive by Alligator readers.
The editors had this to say:
We understand that Haitians are dealing with a horrible tragedy, and we would never want to treat the situation insensitively. But despite the heartbreak, we see beauty in the way the world is coming together to help Haitians. Our cartoon was simply an acknowledgment of the fact that people are joining together to get behind a cause.
Get behinda cause. Nice.
Despite the controversy, the editors will continue to run their sexToons feature, of which the cartoon in question was the latest edition.