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History of Feminism

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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 01:35 PM Apr 2015

Teen gets offensive word on shirt blocked from school pic.The word? Feminist. [View all]

A school's decision to airbrush the word "feminist" off a student's T-shirt in an official class photo has sparked outrage online.

Sophie Thomas, an eighth-grader at Clermont Northeastern Middle School in Batavia, Ohio, wore the shirt when her class photo was taken in March, but she said she was shocked this week to learn the word on her top was removed via Photoshop in the final version.

"I was in class and they were passing out the photos to those who ordered them, and my friend got one so I looked at it so make sure I wasn't making a dumb face or anything," Thomas told TODAY.com, saying that's when she realized the word "feminist" was missing from her black shirt.

"I was upset," she added. "I went to the principal's office and she told me she blacked it out because it's offensive to some people."

http://www.today.com/news/ohio-middle-school-photoshops-feminist-shirt-t15781

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Oh for fuck's sake Novara Apr 2015 #1
This is one of my WTF moments! leftofcool Apr 2015 #2
I guess the principal Susannah Elf Apr 2015 #3
LOl! I hadn't thought of that. leftofcool Apr 2015 #5
And this is a female principal! Susannah Elf Apr 2015 #6
The SCHOOL = offensive. elleng Apr 2015 #4
+1000 ismnotwasm Apr 2015 #7
yup. mopinko Apr 2015 #8
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