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On the one hand, I like to think they'd have the same reaction to a drawing of an anatomically-correct penis. On the other, I suspect they wouldn't.

That's funny, my vagina is obscene too! If "obscene" means tragically hasn't seen a penis in months.

I need to work on my vocabulary.

God forbid a teenage boy know where the clit is.....

Richard Edmond....you are going to be one popular dude at college.

If you can say vagina on the Today show, you should be able to wear a vagina t-shirt to school.
Vagina vagina vagina.

Good work, children! I love it when schools get national press for their prissiness and intolerance.

Good going dude!

But I bet co-ed naked shirts are fine in school, and that girls get called "hos" on a regular basis.

Jeebus wept.

It's a vagina, not a swastika.

Holy crap, I can't say I think it was right or mature to put a picture of a vagina in a school newspaper, but it sure was funny.

Go kids go!

And my vagina IS obscene

Also, my vagina *is* obscene - I would like one of those t-shirts to advertise my naughty, naughty kittybits.

Wow. I'm sure those kids at that school weren't having sexual relations at ALL with each other before that scientific picture of the vagina showed up. Now I'm sure they're all pill-poppers and the girls are all sorts of knocked up because of it.

Nice job, Vagina-Stopper Bob Marks. You've saved the youth of America.

Now, head home and jerk off to that furry porn video you downloaded this morning.

That's because everybody knows you don't have a vagina until after marriage.

At least that's Texas' position.

@JessicaLovejoy: Awesome.

Um, I so badly want a shirt that says "my vagina is obscene." in high school i was the president of the feminist book club, and when we read the vagina monologues I took particular pleasure in making lunch announcements and really belting out the V-word. in fact, i still take pleasure. VAGINA.

@Snowbunny: it wasnt a picture! it was a diagram!

@JessicaLovejoy: hysterical!

"Don't let the students find out some of them have VAGINAS!!!"

Epic high-fives to the t-shirt people in this story. Being a proud shit-disturber myself, I feel proud knowing others are willing to put themselves in the line of fire.

I think a dude wearing a shirt that said "my vagina is obscene" would have been mercilessly mocked at my school, regardless of how valid his point was.

It's a DIAGRAM. Do they not teach anatomy in this school? They may have actually been able to copy that picture out of one of their textbooks! Or is this one of the schools that puts those big gold censorship stickers over all the dirty pictures in the books?

don't they teach health/sex ed at this school? or is that too obscene? I mean, my health class was chock full o' diagrams like that one. I think we even had plastic models

@Snowbunny: How is it "immature" to mark the performance of the Vagina Monologues with a diagram of that particular piece of the human anatomy? They were trying to spread awareness, not execute some fratboy prank. Geez.

I always thought LA was more liberal than the midwest I grew up in. Apparently not.

@blondegrlz: If you can say vagina on the Today show, you should be able to wear a vagina t-shirt to school.

But ya can't say 'cunt'!
Cuntcuntcuntcunt.

@JessicaLovejoy: Mr. Marks probably confiscated it because he's having trouble locating it himself...

@LuxLisbon: jinx

@Snowbunny: I'd say it's pretty immature to consider a vagina diagram unsuitable for teenage eyes.

@vonnegurl: I want that shirt too!

Does this mean health books are disallowed, too? In high school, mine had diagrams of the lady bits, and we all know how vulgar vaginas really are. I mean, your mother had one and we all know you think she's a saint, but let me guess - that's different. It's just the rest of the vaginas that are obscene.

@kataroo_kangaroo: Given the wicked cold I've got at the moment, my sad lamenting that my vagina is unseen lately would sound suspiciously like obscene.

wait just a second! the school paper is called LE SABRE and they're objecting to anatomically correct vagina diagrams?

far fucking out!

Here's the plan. Everyone in school get a shirt that has the name of a different body part on it. "Arm", "Foot", "Navel", "Anus", "Uvula", "Vagina"... then ask why certain kids were weeded out as obscene. I DEFINITELY want a "My vagina is obscene" t-shirt.

@Archetype: Yes, but I suspect the vagina in question had anti-semitic leanings.

While it is a bit much for the school newspaper, way to blow it out of proportion. The kids wanted to make a point, and the school practical build them a perfect platform. When will they learn opression has NEVER curbed teenage behavior, it just gives them a focus.

I don't think that a vagina picture is that big of a deal, but the argument that it increases awareness of violence against women? I don't see the link.

Increase awareness of Vagina Monologues, yes. Violence? No.

@meaghan2k: Or go bang the Home Economics teacher in the supply room. Are there still Home Ec teachers?

@BiscuitDoughJones: As much as I love my hometown, maybe this school should get together with the Seattle Times and talk about how inappropriate vaginas really are - both the stylized and the not-so-stylized. Totally unfit to ever be seen by the human eye. Basically, women are dirty.

@RosemaryF: To clarify, the quote was either taken out of context, or the dude was just...saying shit wrong.

I think people need to learn about baginas and weens in school.
I mean- look at me- my school didn't teach it and I call them baginas and weens.

If young Richard was of legal age, I have a feeling there would be some Jezebelles crushing on him (and let's face it, there probably are anyway).

@kataroo_kangaroo: Comment of the day!

I agree that it was stupid to stop the paper over this. Dumbasses. BUT, this totally reminds me of this one time, in 11th grade, during spirit week, on costume day, when I dressed as a protester. My sign had a peace sign on one side, and "make love, not war" on the other. I was called to the principal's office and man was he mad.

@FourInchHeels: No, because those diagrams are part of the textbooks paid for lovingly by your tax dollar. And they're damned well going to use them!

@NefariousNewt: Oh absolutely - I was talking with a 12 year old about it just the other day! Except now it's called something PC so it doesn't sound so femmy. But you can bet your ass they're still making cinnamon rolls and sewing pillows. And the boys have to do it, too.

Heh. Our vaginas have vestibules. Isn't that like where you leave your hat and umbrella?

As someone who has worked with high school kids that had their newspapers censored, this happens all the time. It happens when kids write about safe sex. It happens when they write about homosexuality and it happens a lot when they write about teen pregnancy or abortion.

High school presidents can be punks.

@BiscuitDoughJones: I'm surprised they even got away with talking about the Vagina Monologues, let alone the drawing.

In high school I worked on the Spanish-language newspaper staff, and someone was given the job of selecting a poem to publish for Valentine's Day. They picked something lovely by Pablo Neruda that apparently contained one line that extolled the beauty of the woman's nether region, comparing it to a rose I think. The teacher had a fit, but no one really noticed at school cause, you know, who reads the Spanish newspaper?

@FourInchHeels: I have a cold, too. Sending you e-chicken soup.

@NefariousNewt: We had them when I was in middle school, not high school, and that was 11 years ago. And my Home Ec teachers were definitely furries in disguise, so I'm sure ol' Bobby Marks would really have enjoyed them.

Home Ec. Completely useless if co-ed. All it was was boys throwing shit around, most of the girls trying and me, complaining to the teacher that I shouldn't have to do anything if the boys aren't doing anything.

I'm not really certain how a diagram of a vagina raises awareness about violence against women, but I like it anyway.

proof once again that the mullahs know obscenity when they see it and, surprise, surprise, it usually looks like a WOMAN.

I want a shirt that says, "My vagina may be obscene but your face is ugly."

@Seriously, its not!: I did have sex education every year (thanks, Hillary!), and I still call them weens.

@NefariousNewt: At least the anatomy of the part-which-shall-not-be-named is one thing which won't change in a few years, unlike our kickass 20-year old history books which are still reeling from the whole Nixon shindig. Question - is this the same tax dollar which supports the abstinence-only education we got as high schoolers? They're fooling no one with the "your vagina won't be there until you're married..TO.A.MAN" logic.

@charlotte corday: Well put!

I'm proud of the kids who fought back through the t-shirts.

@BAngieB: Yes- but do you make a scrunchie face like a 5 year old while saying it?
I think we had sex ed- but it was taught by a person who clearly never had sex- kinda like the coach from Mean Girls (minus the Asians)

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