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So every few years WVU picks a new person to be the Mountaineer mascot. And normally it's a guy.

This year it's a girl. And a bunch of douches at WVU are giving her a hard time about it.

Personally I don't care. I'm sure she's able to do the job as well as any man that's been the mascot before her. And she's not the first girl mascot anyway.

But reading articles like this makes me forget we live in 2009. Let her be the Mountaineer people. She's obviously better than you at it.

Rebecca Durst officially started as West Virginia University’s new Mountaineer when she fired the rifle at the Gold-Blue Spring Football Game at Milan Puskar Stadium Saturday.

But some students and fans are still taking shots at her role in a traditionally male position.

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