Teen gets offensive word on shirt blocked from school pic.The word? Feminist.

[sufrommich]

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

[Novara]

1. Oh for fuck's sake

[leftofcool]

2. This is one of my WTF moments!

[Susannah Elf]

3. I guess the principal

really believes that "feminism" is an
F-word.

[leftofcool]

5. LOl! I hadn't thought of that.

[Susannah Elf]

6. And this is a female principal!

Who would not have risen to her current position if the feminists of yesteryear hadn't worked to remove the glass ceiling. Not that we've been 100% successful. Thanks to the young woman who wore the t-shirt, we may get there someday.

[elleng]

4. The SCHOOL = offensive.

[ismnotwasm]

7. +1000

[mopinko]

8. yup.

schools in general are a bad place for girls.