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High school assistant principal bans athletic shorts, tells boys to ‘blame the girls’
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 9/28/18 | Crystal Bonvillian

Posted on 09/28/2018 3:37:01 PM PDT by madprof98

SODDY-DAISY, TENN. — A Tennessee assistant principal was placed on administrative leave Wednesday after he recorded a video addressing a ban on athletic shorts, in which he suggested male students “blame the girls” for the ban.

“If you really want someone to blame, blame the girls, because they pretty much ruin everything,” Jared Hensley, who also serves as Soddy-Daisy High School’s athletic director, said in the video.

The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that the video, addressed to students and called “A Helping of Hensley,” was removed from YouTube shortly after Hensley posted it, but another YouTube user reposted a 60-second clip of Hensley’s statements.

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The backlash against Hensley’s video was swift and sharp. Many Twitter users called the educator’s comments misogynistic, disgusting and unacceptable. One user called the footage the “I’m going to be fired” video of the day.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
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They not only want a war between Dems and Republicans. They want a war between men and women. (Transgenders can sit it out and then take over, I suppose.)
1 posted on 09/28/2018 3:37:01 PM PDT by madprof98
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Title IX is now for the trannies.

Everybody else is SOL.


2 posted on 09/28/2018 3:38:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Science is a method, not a belief system.)
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Sorry, gotta chuckle  :-)
3 posted on 09/28/2018 3:39:05 PM PDT by tomkat
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More BS. When a female principal calls out toxic masculinity and spouts abut-male views she’s praised but call our toxic feminism and the socialists melt down.

We need to shut down twitter and Facebook - permanently.


4 posted on 09/28/2018 3:45:47 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: madprof98

“If you can’t be an Athlete, at least be an Athletic Supporter!”


5 posted on 09/28/2018 3:46:53 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: madprof98

Well, I am on the side of the men.


6 posted on 09/28/2018 3:48:08 PM PDT by riri
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He was fired today.
Although his statement was not very clear or articulate, he was correct, for the most part.
Any teacher or School employee of today should have known not to make those statements while on the job. PC rules the roost for now.


7 posted on 09/28/2018 3:48:57 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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“If you really want someone to blame, blame the girls, because they pretty much ruin everything,” Jared Hensley, anti-19th Amendment Activist.


8 posted on 09/28/2018 3:49:34 PM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: riri

As a mom raising two boys...yes.


9 posted on 09/28/2018 3:50:21 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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I don’t understand the premise. What’s wrong with the comfortable baggy shorts everybody likes to wear?


10 posted on 09/28/2018 3:50:31 PM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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Nothing’s wrong with those kind of gym shorts, but in a school you will likely find a few who take the pursuit of comfort too far. Some students will spend the whole day in sportswear that looks like pajamas. Others will purposely wear clothing so loose and baggy, that it will expose their underwear. This will lead to kids reacting to the look.
I am guessing such a scenario is what inspired the ban.


11 posted on 09/28/2018 3:56:54 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

the ass principal is a total creep, and if he was dissing my dtrs like that, there would be more than a firing...I say that as a sister of 4 brothers, with one husband and one son...but I won’t let anyone diminish the value of my dtrs....


12 posted on 09/28/2018 3:57:04 PM PDT by cherry (official troll)
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When a female principal calls out toxic masculinity and spouts abut-male views she’s praised but call our toxic feminism and the socialists melt down.

So true. War against men. Females can do no wrong. Males are always wrong.

All this toxic pro-female rhetoric against men gets no checks and is embraced, which is totally unfair to men. Society unravels further.

13 posted on 09/28/2018 3:58:26 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Skywise

See my tagline.


14 posted on 09/28/2018 4:17:05 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: cherry

I think he was trying to be funny. The reality is that it’s easier to enforce a “no shorts” policy than a “shorts must at least reach the tips of your fingers when arms are at your side” policy. It’s not the boys wearing inappropriately short shorts to school.

I’ve seen plenty of clean comedians use an Adam and Eve reference in a bit regarding the battle of the sexes. It’s a common joke. The principal was using humor to wade through really touchy issues like modesty and public displays of affection. Had he been totally straight he could have come off as a pervert.

He didn’t have the comedic chops to pull it off so now his family gets to go through a very hard time (if he has kids they will suffer more than any girl did from his video) because people can neither take a joke nor extend even a smidgen of grace or understanding.


15 posted on 09/28/2018 4:25:00 PM PDT by NorthstarMom
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It’s obvious that it was the girls wearing the inappropriate length of shorts, hence “blame the girls”. If parents find this demeaning maybe they should have their daughters dress more conservatively. A little class goes a long way.


16 posted on 09/28/2018 4:49:02 PM PDT by heylady
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To: madprof98

17 posted on 09/28/2018 5:29:21 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: roadcat

#ibelievesurvivors #poundmetoo


18 posted on 09/28/2018 5:49:45 PM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Title IX was and is CIA: Communism In Action.

Everything is now Redistribution: rights, monies, employments, businesses, educations, citizenships.


19 posted on 09/28/2018 6:56:40 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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Pro-female rhetoric is toxic and destroys entire cultures.

I say repeal the 19th, and I say that as a father to 3 daughters.


20 posted on 10/02/2018 7:04:06 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (I posit that there IS something left worth fighting for.)
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