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2 Winona High students put free speech to the test
("I love my Vagina" buttons worn by students)
mpls star & sickle ^
| 4-21-05
| james walsh
Posted on 04/21/2005 8:09:30 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
Two Winona High School students have found themselves in hot water with school officials.
Why? Because after Carrie Rethlefsen attended a performance of the play "The Vagina Monologues" last month, she and Emily Nixon wore buttons to school that read: "I [heart] My Vagina."
School leaders said that the pin is inappropriate and that the discomfort it causes trumps the girls' right to free speech. The girls disagree. And despite repeated threats of suspension and expulsion, Rethlefsen has continued to wear her button.
The girls have won support from other students and community members.
More than 100 students have ordered T-shirts bearing "I [heart] My Vagina" for girls and "I Support Your Vagina" for boys.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aclu; activist; education; freespeech; idiocy; righttoofend; speech; students; vagina; winona
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the little activist student is planning to go to UW Madison and her momma is a college professor-shocking I tell ya. ACLU to the rescue!!!
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:09:33 AM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
To: Rakkasan1
Wonder what would happen if the boys wore pins that said "I love my Penis."
To: Rakkasan1
Getting to the point where I just don't want to leave the house anymore.
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:11:31 AM PDT
by
Spruce
To: Rakkasan1
Then get all the boys in the school to wear similar buttons, saying "I love their vaginas too". And maybe put random dates on there, like "3-4-05, 9pm".
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:11:38 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
To: Rakkasan1
This is a JOKE, correct?
Words fail...
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:12:01 AM PDT
by
SE Mom
(God Bless those who serve.)
To: Rakkasan1
Judges will uphold this "speech", but will agree to OUTLAW political speech 60 days before an election.
To: Rakkasan1
Their parents should be shot.
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:12:42 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: Rakkasan1
Hmmm I wonder if their favorite song is Primus' "Winona's Big Brown Beaver?"
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:12:47 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Minutemen: Just doing the jobs that American politicians won't do.)
To: theDentist
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:12:52 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Pope Benedict XVI: The Rat-Zinger!)
To: tuffydoodle; Rakkasan1
Wonder what would happen if the boys wore pins that said "I love my Penis." What if boy wore a pin that said, "I love your vagina?"
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:12:53 AM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
To: SE Mom
nope. more blue state buffoonery. (sad to say I live here)
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:13:14 AM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(The MRS wanted to go to an expensive place to eat so I took her to the gas station.)
To: tuffydoodle
"Wonder what would happen if the boys wore pins that said "I love my Penis." Michael Jackson would show up wearing a shirt that read, "Me Too".
To: Rakkasan1
I think I'm going to make my own pin..
I love my penis, and if you are an attractive female with large breasts, I think you should too!
To: Rakkasan1
So somebody should add on to her shirt:
Underneath where it says "I (heart) my vagina" should be:
"Me too" and another sticker that says "So do I" and another sticker that says "So do we".
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:13:49 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Rakkasan1
Hmm. I don't remember having "free speech" in high school.
I remember the occasional bar of soap in my mouth.
I remember being grounded a few times, losing computer privileges, and having my vehicle taken away.
Don't remember enjoying the right of "free speech", though.
In the immortal words of that guy in Ferris Bueller: I weep for the future.
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:14:04 AM PDT
by
Egon
(Liberals: The only group of people they don't want to kill are those that kill others.)
To: tuffydoodle
Wonder what would happen if the boys wore pins that said "I love my Penis." They don't need a button. That is as obvious as them wearing a button saying "I Love to Breathe!" ;)
I've found that no matter how much a man sez he loves ya, he will always love Mr. Winky more.
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:14:16 AM PDT
by
najida
(I wish I had Tina Turner's legs, Ann Coulter's brains and Paris Hilton's credit cards.)
To: Rakkasan1
The boy's version should read "I love your vagina!
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:14:21 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(Quiet reflection does not involve a mirror.)
To: blaquebyrd
And if you wore a shirt saying "I love high power rifle competition at Camp Perry" you would be expelled and thrown into juvie for planning a Columbine style attack.
Free speech my ass.
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:14:46 AM PDT
by
boofus
To: Rakkasan1
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posted on
04/21/2005 8:14:51 AM PDT
by
evets
(God bless President Bush and VP Cheney)
To: Rakkasan1
Ah.. yearning for the days when children of all ages in school made a card or a Christmas ornament for their parents in school.. not:
I ¢¾ my vagina
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