Reply #6: i had something similar happen back in high school (1984)... including the double-standard!

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Some friends and i got together and took pictures outside a particularly-legendary Charlotte NC nightclub (a place called The Milestone Club... it's basically Charlotte's CBGB). We were all 'punker' types, and in one of the pics, my friend Steve picked up a brick, and contorted his face into a "Billy Idol"esque sneer toward the camera while holding it.

That pic turned out to be the best of the bunch, and near the end of the year, we all decided to pitch in money together, and buy a 1/2 page ad in the yearbook, and use it. The ad was refused because Steve "was brandishing a dangerous weapon". We picked out the second best (which, by today's standards, still wouldn't have been approved, because one of them was smoking), and resubmitted the ad.

When the books came out, we almost exploded with anger... in the page right across from ours, a 1/2 page ad featured two of our football players brandishing SHOTGUNS!!! One of them had his foot on a deer carcass, but the other was pretending to aim his weapon!

When we confronted the yearbook's faculty adviser, he shrugged us off, and said that was o.k., because 'they were just hunting!'

Made no f*ckling sense...