Too Much Venus

Mount Holyoke College, an all-women college, recently tried to redesign its logo and even though initial discussions with trustees, graduates, faculty, staff, alumnae, and students determined it was "important to express the important role that women’s colleges have played in exploring issues of gender" they were met with resistance when the proposed logo featured the icon for Venus, which has "a long history of exclusion connected to movements that, while trailblazing for some groups, represents the erasure of others".