"Heart" those boobies, male FReepers!
Posted on 10/02/2010 7:32:35 AM PDT by BullDog108
SPOKANE -- A brouhaha is brewing over “I Heart Boobies” bracelets at Riverside High School after the principal suspended 9 students who wore them to school and refused to take them off.
The bracelets are sold by a non-profit and are designed to raise awareness and money to fight breast cancer. Unfortunately at Riverside High School they raised a little too much awareness for school administrators.
"I think its ridiculous that they would suspend us for wearing something for a good cause that says boobies," Riverside student Dakota Jewell said.
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So, let me get this straight:
It is now “PC” to refer to breasts as breasts? It is now “PC” to refer to breast cancer as breast cancer? And it is now “PC” for a school to enforce its rules? This is really in the same territory as some kid being banned for drawing a picture of Jesus or failing to use the term “people of color?”
Calling words and concepts we enjoy un-PC when it’s not un-PC and has no connection to any issue of political correctness is to engage in the same language twisting bull pucky as the PC crowd.
There are many things that promote breast and other cancer awareness without getting vulgar.
Education is compulsory in our nation. Children are required by law to be in school.
Perhaps you’d like your daughter at an “I love boobies,” “I love balls,” type school. Perhaps everyone should go to school in bikinis and speedos. I wouldn’t like my children there.
If it were a voluntary organization or a public place, I’d figure, freedom of speech.
But it’s not voluntary to be there, and it is closed to the public. So keep some standards going for the poor kids who have to be there practically every waking hour of the day.
Would we all like Boobies and Balls bracelets at work? Would we ladies like to work for men or with co-workers with “I love P***y” ties? Oh no? Why not? And work is voluntary, in a real sense; I can always get another job.
How old are you?
That idea went out with the parrot and wooden leg.
Very good point.
In 2nd grade music lessons were learning to play a classical instrument, buy the time I got into high school music class was singing radical sixty songs.
How did you know I had a parrot and wooden leg ? :)
Ahaaargh Jim lad :-)
PS...I have never bought time :-)
Those aren’t appropriate for school. There are plenty of other ways to put out the message of cancer awareness and i’m glad that the principal is standing up for decency.
I respectfully disagree. The principal is doing his job and enforcing rules, one of which I am sure is clothing or accessories with 'suggestive' images or print.
Would you be upset if the principal suspended some kids for skipping class? Smoking in the boys' room? Destroying school property? While the dropout rate is also a concern, a principal has other stuff on his plate everyday.
I work at a small private school and I have seen a few of our kids where them....not a big deal.......
Of course my 27 yo son still where his shirt he got in college that says I heart boobies....it was a great fund raiser for the breast cancer and I think it is the only pink shirt he will ever wear.....
I’m having this discussion about breast cancer “awareness” on another board. My point is that we are being clubbed like baby seals about all this “awareness” to the point of paranoia.
How much is too much??
He says women should give themselves DAILY breast exams because of the benefits of early detection and I’m saying that’s overkill. How likely is it that somebody will feel something odd one morning and overreact because of all this “awareness”? A gland designed to store fluid is not going to be the same every day.
Like Rush was saying the other day about “hurricane awareness”. By the time the media cries wolf at every little threat, people will just ignore them and not pay attention to the real threat that may come.
Excellent point.
So, you really believe that these kids would have been displined if the bracelets said “Fight Breast Cancer”? What if they were, as Minn suggests upthread, wearing cervical cancer bracelets that read “I heart p***y”? Would banning those bracelets be an attempt to deny the fact that women have vaginas? Would it be a case of Americans being hypocritical about sex?
I used to play defensive tackle many years ago so it feels kind of neat to be offensive.
Uh-huh...please continue.
"Heart" those boobies, male FReepers!
Well, we had fun for 75 posts before Helen showed up...
‘Boobies’ are somewhat akin to real estate: location, location, location.
No.
I was wondering about that myself especially since I doubt males who wear pink bracelets would be all that fond of boobies.
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