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Winona teen tests the limits of free speech at school
(Winona vagina girl update!)
Mpls Star & Sickle ^
| 5-3-05
| James Walsh
Posted on 05/03/2005 5:35:45 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
WINONA, Minn. -- After all the radio interviews, after all the newspaper stories and television stories and hundreds and hundreds of e-mails, Carrie Rethlefsen ended her lesson in free speech and democracy today by doing a simple thing:
She walked into school with her "I [heart] My Vagina" T-shirt's message in plain sight. About 40 classmates had walked in just seconds before after turning their T-shirts inside out.
And, minutes later, she emerged with another lesson learned. The administrators at Winona Senior High School mean what they say. They sent her home for the day.
"I'm happy," said Rethlefsen, 18. "I got my message out there."
What began as a simple act of defiance -- she wore a "I [heart] My Vagina" button to school to raise awareness about violence against women, even after officials told her not to -- evolved into a platform to talk about women's rights, the fight against violence and freedom of speech that she couldn't have imagined two weeks ago.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blue; girl; minnesota; mn; school; schools; state; vagina; winona
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and here I thought all along her message was "I'm a moron-please pay attention to me"
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posted on
05/03/2005 5:35:48 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
To: Rakkasan1
I love my buddy down there, but I don't go expressing it.
To: Rakkasan1
Someone from Department of Children's Services better get to her parent's house and save her siblings before its they get infected with whatever she has.
3
posted on
05/03/2005 5:38:00 PM PDT
by
CT CONSERVATIVE
(Fight Crime: Shoot Back)
To: Rakkasan1
Where's Bill Engval handing out "THE SIGN" when you need him? Perfect photo op as she is escorted out.
4
posted on
05/03/2005 5:38:56 PM PDT
by
AZHua87
(Insurgent BloggerVet!)
To: AZHua87
no kidding. wack her over the head with "here's your sign"
5
posted on
05/03/2005 5:41:55 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(The MRS wanted to go to an expensive place to eat so I took her to the gas station.)
To: DTwistedSisterS
I wonder if it's ok to show solidarity with our opposite sex? Can I go to school wearing a tee shirt that say's "I love her vagina"? With an arrow pointing to my left?
Kinda like "I'm with stupid".
6
posted on
05/03/2005 5:42:00 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(British cars, airplanes, furniture, and women.......Only the classics will do!)
To: CT CONSERVATIVE
"...save her siblings before ... they get infected with whatever she has."
Too late. Idiocy, while sometimes contagious, could be genetic, as amply documented by Murray and Herrnstein.
7
posted on
05/03/2005 5:42:26 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: Rakkasan1
Young, radical, stupid, and lame.
I wonder what her DU name is.
8
posted on
05/03/2005 5:42:53 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Yankee Air Pirate)
To: Rakkasan1
nah..... more embarassing just to have the photo of her being handed the sign with a story as to why.
9
posted on
05/03/2005 5:44:44 PM PDT
by
AZHua87
(Insurgent BloggerVet!)
To: blackdog
How about a T-shirt saying, "I beat my....."?
10
posted on
05/03/2005 5:44:59 PM PDT
by
Celtjew Libertarian
(Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
To: Rakkasan1
I'm all for them too, but some things are just better not to put on a T-Shirt.
11
posted on
05/03/2005 5:44:59 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with "Guess" on it. So I said "Implants?" She hit me.)
To: Rakkasan1
...she wore a "I [heart] My Vagina" button to school to raise awareness about violence against women...Everyone's trying to raise my awareness.
I was eating at a restaurant once, feeling particularly surly, when the college girl waitress strolled up wearing one of the colored "awareness" ribbons. I don't keep track of these things, so I pointed at her ribbon and asked her who I was supposed to give a s**t about.
12
posted on
05/03/2005 5:45:08 PM PDT
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: Rakkasan1
There's a George Bush horse joke somewhere in here, I just know it....
13
posted on
05/03/2005 5:45:26 PM PDT
by
Celtjew Libertarian
(Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
To: Rakkasan1
It seems to me there is nothing wrong with loving it but why would you want to tell everyone else that?
14
posted on
05/03/2005 5:46:17 PM PDT
by
Shanda
To: SIDENET
I wonder what her DU name is.YSSUP?
15
posted on
05/03/2005 5:46:59 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with "Guess" on it. So I said "Implants?" She hit me.)
To: All; kingattax; Howlin
Coming up next on Bore'illy is more of this feminist vagina crapola in HS
To: DTwistedSisterS
... I was born in his 2nd to last year in office(19**)... Hold still, love. This won't take long...
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posted on
05/03/2005 5:47:39 PM PDT
by
Michael Goldsberry
(an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; ...)
To: All
some Dr of Reproductive Psychiatry is on with Bill. What the hell is that?
To: Celtjew Libertarian
There's a George Bush horse joke somewhere in here, I just know it....
I (heart) milking my male horse?
Seriously, this kid will be long forgotten soon. But history will remember Laura Bush for telling the most tastless joke ever heard from a "first lady". Who wrote the stuff Laura Bush used the other night? The drunk and shirtless guy you always see on an episode of COPS?
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posted on
05/03/2005 5:52:25 PM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(You must respect my a-tor-it-tah!)
To: CT CONSERVATIVE
She is your typical "anything goes" Lib
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