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Say Vagina, Go To Detention (Concurring Opinions)
Mar 10th, 2025 by Viviane
Dan Filler writes:
One of the great things about blogging - much like hanging out in libraries - is that you can discover lots of interesting stuff when you follow the links. Like many other readers, I’ve found the AutoAdmit cyber stalking story pretty compelling and troubling. (Dave tweaks me for my nod to David Lat’s librarian hottie lists. I continue to think that this post falls into a very different category of cyber-jectification, but I’m open to educatin’.) Following various links, from Leiter, through Althouse, to Feministe, I discovered another nugget that I missed in yesterday’s web WaPo: a suburban NY school district suspended three girls for using the word “vagina” in an open-mic reading of (what else?) The Vagina Monologues. Apparently, prior to the performance, the principal had told the 11th graders that they could read the play, but not utter the V-word. (more…)
I recently went through a free speech situation in my high school with a child of mine, and the limits the schools can place on the First Amendment are almost unlimited. The ACLU wouldn’t take the case, either.