Big fuss over tattoo page in local high school yearbook

[Oeditpus Rex]

I just don't understand why people get so het up over stuff like this. Heebus, you'd think the yearbook ran photos of kids burning flags. :eyes:

http://gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=228389

The story fails to mention that the paper's own right-wing columnist equated tattoos with mutilation and hepatitis C.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. But they - and I'm sure they're all Super Christians - don't give a fuck about starving children,

the 29,000 children who die every day from starvation, or the 3 million a year who die of malaria, or the thousands of people getting killed in wars, or genocide in Darfur, or the continuing raping and destruction of our planet.

No, they finally get riled up about something that's truly important - whether someone has a fucking tattoo.

Though I'm sure they also get riled up for that other important issue: who might be having sex.

[JTG of the PRB]

2. This is what they got worked up about at my high school a few years ago:

http://splc.org/report_detail.asp?id=703&edition=19

In a separate yearbook controversy, students at Boulder High School in Colorado staged a "kiss-in" to protest their yearbook's decision not to publish a picture of two girls kissing.

Gay and lesbian students as well as supporters kissed each other outside a school building after an underground newspaper criticized the yearbook's decision not to publish the photograph.

School officials counter that the photo was not "banned," and that the student editors of the Odaroloc made the decision because they could not inform the girls' parents of the picture before the yearbook's deadline. Protesters countered that photos of heterosexual couples kissing were included without parental permission.

"This isn't a picture that was banned or stricken by the administration," Principal Chris King said. "They didn't want a parent to open the yearbook and find out for the first time that their daughter likes to kiss other girls."

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I was at the "kiss-in", and it was an interesting event. The people who protested came up with a very original way to voice their disapproval it. The staff was within their rights not to publish is, but come on - two girls kissing in the yearbook is THIS big of an issue? Wow. Let them have the picture, for Chrissakes!

[sasquatch]

3. My God I'd make it mandatory for two girls kiss each other for a yearbook photo

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[Oeditpus Rex]

5. The first item at that SPLC link reminds me

of the attorney who sued either his daughter's high school or her basketball coach early this year after she was cut from the team. That led to all kinds of weird shit, like a panel to observe the team's practices to determine if any of the players were being treated unfairly.

Sometimes I think we should just shoot every third set of parents. With a little luck, that'd get rid of some of the winners like these.



Just in case...

:sarcasm:

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Some people just have way too much time on their hands.