ACLU Defends Girls' Right to Wear Sassy Bracelets

[struggle4progress]

By Bonnie Rochman Tuesday, November 16, 2010

I ♥ boobies. They nourish children. They define a woman's silhouette. And sometimes, they turn toxic.

It's the latter that's the subject of Monday's free-speech lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania on behalf of two local schoolgirls who were suspended for wearing “I ♥ Boobies! (Keep A Breast)” bracelets.

Kayla Martinez, a seventh-grader at Easton Area Middle School 7/8, and Brianna Hawk, her eighth-grade pal, elected to wear the $4 rubber bracelets on Oct. 28, their school's breast cancer awareness day, despite their school having banned the jewelry days before. Even though their mothers had okayed it, the girls tucked the bracelets under their shirtsleeves at first. By lunchtime, however, they wore them openly. Then, bam!, a lunch monitor pounced ...

It was the ultimate irony: getting suspended on breast cancer awareness day for wearing breast cancer awareness bracelets. So the girls' moms phoned the ACLU. “We don't think our girls should be punished for this,” they said. “We don't think the bracelets are offensive” ...

http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/16/i-%e2%99%a5-boobies-aclu-defends-girls-right-to-wear-sassy-bracelets/#ixzz15Vt2Pz76

[Patchuli]

1. The girls here are wearing them

and while it took me aback at first, I heartily approve. Boobies are a body part that gets cancer. Awareness can prevent. Screw these prudish fools that condemn breast cancer awareness!

[madmom]

2. If they didn't want to draw attention to boobs, then why have a breast cancer awareness day at all?

[struggle4progress]

3. Dunno. Mebbe it's the "abstinence only" version of "breast cancer awareness day"

[TheMadMonk]

4. Because once cancerous breasts are objects of medical interest not prurient.

Boobies, titties, hooters, bazoombas, etc. are euphenisms for that body part in a sexual/hide the sexual from children context.

Children wearing a tongue in cheek double entendre and getting away with it might just point out the basic silliness of their prudery.