Sickles T-Shirt Offends – We All See What We Want to See
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, this 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. Check it.
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.
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Former Leto HS men’s dean, Mitch Muley (who was actually a good dean and a pretty good guy), had one of our senior skits removed because we referred to “cod” in a skit. I’d written the joke unaware that a “cod” was slang for, er, a man’s “package”. Once I knew it was naughty, I designed a lot of our advertising signs with the acrostic “Come On Down” (first letters highlighted), and they all sailed through. Nothing like banning a book to make it a best seller.
I never knew a man’s “package” was referred to as a cod? Oh, wait, now that I think about it… codpiece..it’s all coming together now. Coming (sp.),,, ha,ha funny. See? the ridiculousness and immaturity of these parents has tainted me. Taint,,, haha funny. I could go on and on. Get a life, ladies. The kids would have never seen it that way. At least not until they were teenagers.
now that i see it up close…it doesn’t look like a penis…but on facebook….at a glance….penis.
Tam – I suppose the same could be said for any phallic symbol – the Washington Monument, airplanes, etc.
Jeez. I hope I spelled *phallic* right.
Note: That parents care nothing about their boys dressing up as girls…
I don’t think the shirt is a big deal. But I’m curious to know who did the art work. Someone from the school, a friend of a teacher, outside freelancer?
You know, these mothers looked at this…thing…covered with blisters, with things living in and about it, resting and atop incredibly pointy scrotum and catheterized with a flagpole and the first thing they saw is penis.
My question has to be what sort of effed-up, kinky, German Schisse film boot knockin’ are these women up for?
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