Wearing the word "vagina" is apparently against the dress code in Minnesota schools.
After seeing the off-Broadway hit, The Vagina Monologues, two high-school girls in Winona, MN, were inspired to wear buttons stating "I (heart) My Vagina." According to the AP report today:
...The students were admonished for wearing buttons inspired by the show... The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota has offered to help students fight any consequences from their actions.As a means of preventing the students from offending those to whom the mere mention of "vagina" is an affront, the school's efforts have failed. The AP reports that more than 100 students have ordered T-shirts bearing "I (heart) My Vagina" for girls and "I Support Your Vagina" for boys.
This incident follows the suspension in 2001 of a 17-year-old Michigan boy who came dressed as a vagina to a Halloween costume contest. He won first prize in the school contest, then was suspended from school for a week.
Maybe it's something in the milk.
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— go to most recent comments1 - Eric Olsen
beyond hilarious: "I support your vagina."
So now we have covered the convex and the concave. Not sure how much debate we will have on this one, though: there is relatively little debate on what the vagina is for.
2 - Dawn
there is relatively little debate on what the vagina is for.
An escape route for newborns.
3 - Eric Olsen
traffic goes both ways of necessity
4 - SFC SKI
I always thought of the vagina as more of a dual-use technology.
I have a few reasons why the school is not wrong, but I am too tired to do more than rant, soI won't.
5 - The Theory
yeah, i support the school in this one.
Though I totally want an "I (Heart) My Vagina" t-shirt.
6 - Victor Plenty
Maybe the cheese from unhappy Midwest cows is the cause of these surprising nonconformist acts.
After all, you'd never see Californians doing anything like this.
7 - Mark Saleski
i swear, this country will never grow up.
8 - Eric Olsen
yes, it's called neoteny
9 - Temple Stark
I said this at another site. do we really want high school boys walking around with "I (Heart) My Cock" buttons or T-shirts.
10 - Eric Olsen
I believe the corollary would be "penis" - if it was ignored, it would go away
11 - Victor Plenty
"I (Heart) My Penis" would be a better parallel.
12 - bhw
And also self-evident, particularly in the case of teenage boys.
13 - Eric Olsen
this has the potential to turn into one of those "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" arguments
14 - Victor Plenty
Feminazi communatheist liberal gay agenda stuff, you mean?
15 - bhw
Oh, come on. We all know you -- gay or straight, young or old -- love your wieners.
16 - Temple Stark
Wow, thanks for those really important style clarifications. :~ Neither should be on school grounds.
I believe the corollary would be "penis" - if it was ignored, it would go away
"I (Heart) My Penis" would be a better parallel.
17 - Eric Olsen
I meant it about the buttons; if they were ignored they would go away. Schools need to learn to pick and choose their battles. Some simply aren't worth fighting.
18 - bhw
I believe the corollary would be "penis" - if it was ignored, it would go away
I've tried it with my husband. Doesn't work.
19 - Victor Plenty
Yes, we must protect children from the dangerous powers of parallel sentence structure. Only men over the age of 35 and women over the age of 40 should be allowed to study this arcane art.
20 - Eric Olsen
I'm not entirely sure that's flattering
21 - bhw
It's got staying power....
22 - Dawn
Did I miss something or are we talking about how to make penises go away?
Let me know when you figure that out. It could prove useful.
"Hey you Penis, be gone."
And poof, it was gone!
23 - Eric Olsen
I was talking about the buttons, not the winkers. This thread is a nearly miraculous instance of out of sequence postings and linguistic misunderstandings
24 - Dawn
So we aren't going to learn how to make a penis go away?
I want my money back.
25 - Eric Olsen
there is always the Lorena Bobbitt technique