I agree 100% on this. If the ISU football team came out and said "we want the fight song to be gender neutral" I would have zero issue with the change even if I can't fathom being offended by the line "loyal sons forever true".
If the Texas players don't want to sing it, don't make them. That's ******* stupid. And it's obvious that many of these Texas boosters are racists who don't give a **** about the players. They just want their silly traditions to endure at all costs.
And I know it was sung at minstrel shows, and while I agree that minstrel shows are racist, I'll go back to my previous point that just because a racist does something, doesn't inherently make it racist.
I mostly agree.
and if the idiot Texas fans really want the song, they’d just ignore the whole thing and I’d bet in a few years everyone would be back to singing it.