Too sexy T-shirt flareup at Sickles High
April 9, 2009 at 9:45 pm by Catherine Robinson
By Catherine Durkin Robinson
PoHo contributor
Catherine Durkin Robinson is a “feminist mother of twins” and a political blogger, working under the title Out in Left Field.
Every year at high schools across the country, female students take part in Powder Puff football games. They compete against each other while male students dress in drag to perform as cheerleaders. It’s a silly and ridiculous ritual.
But in the grand scheme of things, the tradition is rather harmless. Students raise some needed funds and everyone usually has a good time before retiring to the captain’s house for a raging kegger.
They also sell Powder Puff t-shirts to commemorate the event.
Administrators at Sickles High School got into a bit of trouble with this year’s t-shirt when a few parents called to say that the shirt was “obscene” and “inappropriate.”
As a teacher, I saw obscene and inappropriate shirts on our students every day. Rarely did parents complain. So when I heard this, I naturally had to see the offensive garb for myself.
Needless to say, I was terribly disappointed.
Some *concerned women* in the community think the design looks “too much like a penis.”
Really? When was the last time they saw a man’s penis? And perhaps that’s part of the problem.
Administrators responded like typical administrators. Instead of asking these shrews to get their husbands checked for STDs (because, seriously bitches, no part of your man’s anatomy should look like this) – they sent out a hastily drafted email advising all teachers to never again print t-shirts without direct administrative approval.
As if they could have seen this coming.
During a time when pre-K funding is low, ineffective teachers remain protected, and valued educators lose their jobs — lonely and bored housewives in need of a good stiff bone job are getting riled up over a t-shirt?
If you squint your eyes, dim the lights and drink a glass of wine — that castle still doesn’t look like a cock.
It’s a silly and ridiculous argument.
And in the grand scheme of things, this t-shirt is rather harmless.
Hey ladies, maybe you should fill your long and lonely days with something that will actually help improve our schools. In other words, get a life and get laid. Then maybe you’ll start to focus on what’s important and lay off the silly stuff.
