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Never get in the way of teenagers and their fashion choices—NEVER, unless you’re prepared to face their wrath.
A school in Pennsylvania has banned the ever-so-popular adornment of those rubber “I love boobies” bracelets. School officials say that the bracelets are demeaning and distracting and have prompted male students to make inappropriate …
… comments.
Two young girls didn’t take the news of the ban very well and are now suing their school. Despite being told that the bracelets were not allowed to be worn at school, they went ahead and wore them anyway—with their parent’s permission, of course. As a result, both girls were suspended and barred from attending dances for a full month.
The two girls, Kayla Martinez, 12, and Brianna Hawk, 13 have filed a free speech lawsuit and the ACLU has jumped on board to defend them:
“The First Amendment does not allow schools to censor students’ speech merely because some students and teachers are offended by the non-vulgar educational message, and silencing the speakers because other students may react inappropriately would amount to a constitutionally impermissible heckler’s veto,” Roper, who represents the families, wrote in the lawsuit.
“Seeing a bracelet with ‘I Love Boobies!’ on it is a conversation starter that leads to discussion and awareness of issues affecting young people,” the lawsuit said.
I think bans like these are stupid. However, these bracelets irk me. I find it highly doubtful that the kids sporting these are sparking up in-depth conversations about breast cancer. For the most part the only people I have ever seen wearing the “I love boobies” bracelets are skeevy dudes. There is a guy in my history class who wears one every day, and he is so utterly douchey. The man is constantly making inappropriate sexists remarks, and I can guarantee that his choice to wear the bracelet has nothing to do with raising awareness for breast cancer.
Still, I think it’s silly to get all up in arms over the word “boobies.” However, I do have to question why there has yet to be a bracelet dedicated to rectal cancer loving on butts, or prostate cancer crying “I love balls!”, or even cervical cancer – “I love my vag!” I think that someone should really jump on that idea, since “I love boobies!” is so clearly a hit.
I find the concept of the “I love boobies” campaign a bit insensitive. So many women suffering from breast cancer lose one, or both, of their breasts so to have a campaign with the slogan of “I love boobies,” is a little tacky in my very humble opinion. Although, thanks to the widespread popularity of these bracelets, it would appear that this campaign has probably raised a nice chunk of change for breast cancer research, and that’s a good thing.
So what do you guys think is it their right to wear “I love boobies” bracelets? Important enough for a lawsuit? Are the parents behind it all?
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They should definitely have a right to wear them; however the only reason the kids are wearing them is to get a reaction from their peers. I would imagine that even this effect is fading with each passing day.
Much as the I love boobies stuff irks me, they should have the right to wear it. The bracelets aren’t making middle school boys act like idiots; their recent discovery of porn probably is.
I see the point of supporting the wearing of the bracelets but honestly, you have to pick your battles. The school told two twelve-year olds not to wear boobie bracelets because it was causing problems at the school, and they did it anyway, and their parents let them? It sounds like these people are all just looking for attention. They are kids; and there is letting your child express yourself and then there is taking stupid crap way too far. I think they should have just stopped wearing the damn bracelets and shut up about it.
When I was in school they banned those “Big Johnson” t-shirts, I still wore them (under a jacket) but even then I knew that they should have been banned. They were disruptive and school is about learning and more importantly, learning how to behave around others in a structured environment (learning how to sit and be quiet and not a wild-ass)….and for the record I love boobies.
I’m sorry – this is simply crude and there is no need for that. I would never allow my daughters to wear something like this to school, of all places – anymore than I would allow them to wear a bikini top.
There are appropriate places for such things – school is not one of them.
It is difficult enough to maintain an ordered, peaceful middle school, it would be stupid to allow something like this.
Crap.
I just agreed with boring again, didn’t I?
I liked his opinion 3 times tonight, please don’t take a belt to me Aunt Blurry.
There there little Copa.
Sometimes we just can’t help ourselves.
I don’t think it’s so ridiculous that 13 year olds could be sparking up in-depth conversations. When I was 12, my friends and I followed Canadian politics and followed the 2000 american election (we’re lived in a small town in Newfoundland) as well. A few years later the older sister of a girl in my class had cervical cancer, and we definitely talked about that in depth. Maybe we were an exception to the norm (ok, we were totally the exception to everything considered ‘normal’ for our ages), but there’s no reason these girls can’t be the exception too. Maybe they have people in their lives who have breast cancer, should they be denied the opportunity to show their support?