Because this story is guaranteed to titillate and outrage your rugged manliness and traditional values. Not to mention, it will make you horny as hell:
One was Carrie Rethlefsen, 18, who touched off a high-profile freedom of speech debate at the high school in February when she continued to wear a button that read “I (heart) my vagina” despite the threats of school officials who called it offensive.
Students rallied to her cause, and on Tuesday about 45 of them gathered in front of the school before class. Several women wore “I (heart) my vagina” shirts while male students wore a version that said, “I support your vagina.”
School administrators said last week that students could wear the shirts and similar buttons outside the school, but would be asked to turn their T-shirts inside-out or remove the buttons before going to class.
Those who didn’t would get a one-day suspension, according to a letter the principal sent to students’ homes last week…
…Rethlefsen told reporters she knew she would be suspended, but wore her shirt inside anyway to support the issues of female sexuality and sexual violence against women discussed in the play…
Late last week school officials said they would let students start a women’s issues group, bring in a speaker on issues of importance to women and set up a table at the school where a local woman’s advocacy group would provide information — but students who wore buttons or T-shirts with the word “vagina” into the school would be punished…
On Tuesday morning, a line of teachers stood in front of the school and at other entrances. Some police officers were nearby. Minutes before classes were to begin at 9 a.m., Assistant Principal Ben Johnson stood near the doors with a bullhorn…
This story was made for FOX News. It’s got the words: vagina, 18-year old girl, ACLU, Vagina Monologues, bullhorn, women’s advocacy group, police officers, and suspension. What could make the typical FOX viewer angrier? Or more aroused?
I think schools should have the right to have a reasonable dress code. But I can’t wait for the goons on the right-wing to take up Miss Rethlefsen as another example of everything that is wrong and threatening about liberalism.
Perhaps, they’ll make her famous.
see The Falafel Factor.
And the full complaint filed with the court is extraordinary reading, too. See here.
yah O’Reilly, grab your oils, and your “boys” (if they work) and a “pita bread” ; )
that should keep the “jerk” in the shower, and the closet for another 3.6 yrs….LMAO
geesh, what an amazing punn on words a person could have with this story..LMAO
I know O’Reilly makes me “feel awful” (see what I mean) or even “full awful” (since he’s so full of it)
I wonder how much his 900 phone “Bill” is ???
you people take it from there ; ) Have Fun !!!
This story is the most encouraging piece of news I’ve read so far this morning! The idea that high school kids in small-town Minnesota (granted Winona is a college town so it’s more liberal than most, but it’s still smack-dab in the heart of the “conservative” Midwest) care this much about the kind of issues The Vagina Monologues/V-Day movement represents should come as a warning to Fox News et al that their days as the “popular” voice of the American people are numbered. Gens Y and Z have nothing but scorn for their Christianist falafel fetishizing.
I sincerely hope Fox takes your cue, BooMan, and launches a Culture War attack against these kids, with their outrageous opposition to rape, ethnic cleansing, female genital mutilation and so-called “feminist” puritanism. It’s about time that the American Right came out in the open. I look forward to Bill O’ screaming at fresh-faced Minnesota teens: “Shut up! Shut up! I HATE your vaginas.” As indeed he does.
These t-shirts could catch on all over America if ‘The Factor’ rises to the bait. How can they resist?
I hesistate to say this, but you could ask if they want to put an ad here in the Store. HippyChix? If it does hit FOX…..
I grew up right across the river from Winona, in LaCrosse…and Winona Ryder’s parents named her after the town of Winona(think they were in hippie commune or something there at the time?)
And heaven forbid that teens speak that dreaded word ‘vagina’ now they’ll probably all end up pregnant, right. I thought you had to be 21 before you could utter that word out loud and then of course only in the privacy of your own home.
Of course the Patriot Act does state that if you utter the word in public you’re immediately subject to becoming a ‘person of interest’ who may have terrorist tendencies involving the corruption of this christian nation.
Laughing too hard.
Thanks, Sirocco.