As someone who has had breast cancer, I support the students in this. Breasts are not just to be sexualized, they are body parts, and their purpose is to nourish babies. This is ridiculous on the school’s part. Good grief. “boobies.” OMG.
From the group’s website:
Lately we’ve been getting lot’s of letters. Mainly from proud parents, supporting their rad kids, who are standing up for what they believe in, or from teenagers who are pissed at their administration for telling them they can’t support something they believe in, and even letters from angry principals and parents calling us perverted.
The entire idea of the campaign is to take this serious horrible subject, break the ice, and make it easy to talk about. We tell all the principals that this is actually their OPPORTUNITY, to talk to their students about an issue that effects them and is important to them, take this opportunity to educate your students on how they can prevent breast cancer.
THANK YOU to all of you, who are standing up, and telling your schools, you have freedom of speech, and freedom to support causes that are important to you.
I respect your opinion, but I also vehemently disagree. This has nothing to do with the word “boobies.” It has to do with a focus on body parts alone (and, yes, a rather crass focus), rather than on the real issue, which is cancer.