I am typing this on my computer.

Is the above sentence also semi-profane? There is absolutely nothing as in nothing profane about the word "boobies".

Wearing a bracelet that say I love boobies to middle school is not appropriate

I would not be allowed to wear a shirt that says I hate abortion with a picture of an aborted fetus to school

Where are these girls going to learn to be ashamed of their bodies if not at school?

Exactly. The word "boobies" is just as disgusting as aborted fetuses.

Btw i'm extremely disappointed Carlin's 7 dirty words haven't been mentioned yet.

Boobies were not on the list, man.

haha, +1. I was also disappointed.

SCOTUS has decided several cases relating to speech in schools. The current test is basically:

1. Does the speech violate a school rule?
2. Does the speech have a tendency to interfere with legitimate educational and disciplinary objectives.

It has to be both.*

*"tendency to interfere," is a very low bar, which may have been lowered still more when the Court decided the "bong hits 4 Jesus" case (which held that a student could be suspended for holding up that sign at an off school grounds rally that was sanctioned by the school because the slogan conflicted with the school's anti-drug policy).

If I was at the governaments girls had to pull their bra off befor enter in the class room

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Not sure why you bolded some stuff and not others, but thanks for proving my point.

I'd bet the impact on funding is actually kind of massive. The "awareness" aspect, less so.

God you are...your mind is not that impressive

Going to have to agree with nick here, same goes for all those gay profile changing campaigns and stuff on facebook and stuff, it's mostly just stupid.

The "awareness" aspect is not separable from the "funding impacts." In fact, they're inexorably linked.

This is partly why I think NVE and pvn have their hearts in the wrong place, and I'll grant for the sake of the argument that they're making totally good faith criticisms.

Because even assuming the absolute worst about "cancer awareness whores" self-aggrandizing motives, who cares? The means are not very burdensome (omg, pink socks on my favorite football team ohnoes!!!! Facebook profile changes WTF!!!!! pink garbage cans, I love boobies shirts, bracelets, et al -- the means that people are criticizing here have no real impact on anyone) and (assuming we're correct that the funding impacts are substantial), then the ends are laudable. Even if those ends (increased funding for cancer research) are secondary or lower in the hierarchy to the "cancer awareness whores" who are just signaling or drawing attention to themselves.

From theKeep a Breast Foundation - They barely donate any money too research

After getting burned hard donating to Yele Haiti after the earthquake I am very skeptical.

Knowing nothing about Keep A Breast or where their money goes -- assuming they're not duplicitous and they're not stealing it or whatever -- "funding for research (for cures or treatments)" is not the exhaustive list of useful things in the world of "money that goes towards cancer" that makes peoples' lives better. For instance:

Those are useful activities.

Even if they are stealing it or lying or whatever, that has nothing to do with the efficacy of cancer "awareness" in particular, just bad people preying on others.

They dont get payed equally bc they miss so much work imo

Meh, I just don't think "boobies" is appropriate in a school or professional setting period.

while an argument can be made that boobies are holy, I don't think one could argue that they aren't common

Agree entirely, I didn't want to get into it too much since I should be studying, but the fact that they are called "awareness" campaigns is generally because calling it a "fundraising" effort or whatever is a little less likely to produce equal levels of actual fundraising.

But that's clearly not how those words are intended in that definition. Unless you consider the word "the" to be profane as well.

Considering that there are religious traditions that do consider certain words holy, some certainly would consider 'the' to be profane.

But one doesn't have to be religious to think that considering that profound and profane are antonyms and since some words do have more semantic depth than others, 'the' can certainly be considered profane.

And while perhaps profane has lost the meaning of 'common'— vulgar is still used that way quite a bit.

How would banning these bracelets teach girls to be ashamed of their bodies?

Because the word boobies is then stigmatized

*Stigmatization of the word boobies then leads to stigmatization of the boobies themselves, and then to the rest of their bodies by analogy.

This is why i always use the words ****, **** and minge around women.

Im curious to see if any get through the filter.

1/3 aint bad, the others has a c and a t to start.