When senior Carrie Rethlefsen began wearing an "I (heart) My Vagina" button to school, she says she was trying to speak out against violence toward women.

A month after she began donning the button, Rethlefsen was told to take it off.

But Rethlefsen considers the button a matter of free speech.

"I think you need to be bold for things to change," she said. "I'm wearing this to support sexual awareness, gender equality, women's rights and freedom of speech."

I’d have to take issue with this little newbie pubie’s view that advertising the fact that you have a vagina and you’re proud of it makes a statement that needs to be made in the corridors of the local high school. But as we all know, behind the delusions of an impressionable little feminazi spawn’s brain there just has to be a full-fledged feminazi. Which is where the obviously leftist director of the “women’s studies” program at the local state college comes in:

Tamara Berg, director of Winona State University's women studies, helped design and sell the vagina buttons at a local production of the Vagina Monologues, a play about female sexuality. The proceeds went to help abused women.

"I love my vagina seems harmless to me," Berg said. "Vagina is a word they use all the way down to fourth-grade sex ed."

Because of the context of the button, Berg said she believes it is different than if it contained a male sexual organ.

"For young women, it's taking a body part that's socially constructed as nasty, dirty and something we don't talk about, and say, ‘You know, this is a part of me and I love it and I'm not going to let it be portrayed in a negative way' " she said.

So in this leftist’s twisted mind, plastering the word “vagina” all over a high school is cool but the word “penis” is a different story? And am I the only one who thinks this woman has a complex about her vagina? I don’t ever remember there being a “nasty, dirty” connotation connected with this female body part but, just like a penis, there are some places where you talk about a vagina and some places you DON’T talk about a vagina. And, just like the aforementioned male organ, talk about vaginas in high school should be confined to sex ed classes. I’d be anxious to know if the ACLU would be defending as vigorously the right of some high school boy to wear a button loudly proclaiming his love for his penis. The smart money is on the notion that they’d be on the side of the young women attempting to sue said boy for sexual harassment.

Where have we come in this society when little high school girls have come to the ridiculous conclusion that freedom of speech in a classroom setting extends to whatever type of pornographic message they interpret as some profound expression of their budding pubescence as it relates to the liberation of women? And why did it take the school administration an entire month to say “enough already!”? Finally, how are we supposed to take an organization like the ACLU seriously when it jumps to the defense of this idiocy? Answer: We’re not. The organization is an affront to common sense and decency and the fact that one of its former attorneys – Ruth Bader Ginsburg – sits on the United States Supreme Court goes a long way towards explaining some of the problems with that body.

As for me, I’m patiently waiting for the logical sequel to The Vagina Monologues: The Penis Monologues. But I won’t hold my breath.

Source: Winona Daily News