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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts) Thu Feb 21, 2019, 04:09 AM Feb 2019

Ever get a "Best Boobs" award in high school?

Well, it's happening in Wisconsin...

https://deadspin.com/report-high-school-cheerleaders-parents-horrified-by-c-1832745015

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As you’d expect, at least four adults reportedly complained to the school’s principle and school district administrators. The school’s track coach called the awards “extremely degrading to women;” a mother who attended the awards described the awards as “just so wrong, in so many ways.” The banquet was held in March 2018; it is now late February 2019, and all the school district has to show for it is “a clear expectation” that coaches giving high school kids mock awards for things like having “enormous boobs” is “not acceptable.” The cheerleading coach behind the awards, a woman named Patti Uttech, defended them with depressingly familiar language...

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Ever get a "Best Boobs" award in high school? (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Feb 2019 OP

Smh Lifelong Protester Feb 2019 #1

In the senior will for her class, TexasTowelie Feb 2019 #2

No, I didn't. Harker Feb 2019 #3

I was named the "Biggest Boob" in my senior class. Does that count? LastLiberal in PalmSprings Feb 2019 #4

ROFL - those were the days. Vinca Feb 2019 #5

Amazing jberryhill Feb 2019 #6

I'm just glad I don't have boobs. panader0 Feb 2019 #7

Do the students get to give an award for the Biggest Letch? nt Snotcicles Feb 2019 #8

The cheerleading coach, who is a woman, blamed "PC" culture for the uproar. bullwinkle428 Feb 2019 #9

Because of course she did. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2019 #10

Nope and embarrassed to say that is my old high school in the story... Luciferous Feb 2019 #11

When I was in high school, we had a "Best Physique" award NewJeffCT Feb 2019 #12

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts)

1. Smh

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2019, 04:14 AM

Feb 2019

Why does it always have to be WI?

TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts)

2. In the senior will for her class,

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2019, 04:20 AM

Feb 2019

the joke was that my sister bequeathed her tightest blouses and sweaters to another student.

A few years later, the most buxom girl at my high school wore a Boy-O-Boy T-shirt that undoubtedly got the "Best Boobs" award due to the positioning of the "O's" in the "Boy" portions emphasizing the message.

Harker

(14,024 posts)

3. No, I didn't.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2019, 06:36 AM

Feb 2019

The older I get, though, the better my chances.

LastLiberal in PalmSprings

(12,586 posts)

4. I was named the "Biggest Boob" in my senior class. Does that count?

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2019, 08:01 AM

Feb 2019

Vinca

(50,279 posts)

5. ROFL - those were the days.

Reply to LastLiberal in PalmSprings (Reply #4)

Thu Feb 21, 2019, 08:48 AM

Feb 2019

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

6. Amazing

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:26 AM

Feb 2019

Just amazing.

This is 2019, right?

I mean, I haven't been hit on the head again or anything, have I?

panader0

(25,816 posts)

7. I'm just glad I don't have boobs.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:30 AM

Feb 2019

I'd never get anything done......

Snotcicles

(9,089 posts)

8. Do the students get to give an award for the Biggest Letch? nt

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:44 AM

Feb 2019

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)

9. The cheerleading coach, who is a woman, blamed "PC" culture for the uproar.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:58 AM

Feb 2019

The cheerleading coach behind the awards, a woman named Patti Uttech, defended them with depressingly familiar language:

“We understand that we are in a politically correct world these days, but we do like to have fun and keep thing on the lighter side,” Ms. Uttech wrote to the principal.