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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts) Mon Apr 6, 2015, 10:46 AM Apr 2015

Louisiana Principal Determined To Ruin Prom For Bad-A** Tux-Wearing Lesbian Honors Student UPDATE

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Priorities! Carroll High School in Monroe, Louisiana, has them! Claudetteia Love is 17, she is a top honors student headed to college on a full scholarship, and she would like to go the prom with her friends. She would also like to wear a tuxedo, because that’s what she’s most comfortable in. All of this is great, except for the fact that she is a damn lesbian, and they just don’t take kindly to that sort of thing in MON-roe (spelled phonetically for non-Southern readers, for future reference):

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According to Love, Principal Patrick Taylor has pulled right out of his bayou ass a policy that says that girls must wear dresses to the prom, essentially arguing that “boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.” Apparently this is important to people, somewhere, because the only fitting finishing accessory for a tuxedo is a good old all-American penis.

But Love’s sister Mignon says she heard teachers talking about it, and apparently it was all rude comments about her sister’s sexuality, BIG SURPRISE.

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Love tells USA Today that she’s fighting for this for the sake of younger girls who will come after her and face the same stuff. Prom discrimination against lesbians has certainly happened before! Several years back, in neighboring Mississippi, a group of asshole teenagers created a fake prom to keep student Constance McMillen from attending the REAL PROM with her girlfriend. In the end, of course, McMillen won, because she got to go on the Ellen Show, and all the rest of the students who were mean to her are still humping their sisters in Northeast Mississippi. Our advice to Ms. Love is to STAY BY YOUR PHONE, especially since Ellen DeGeneres is from Louisiana too.

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Louisiana Principal Determined To Ruin Prom For Bad-A** Tux-Wearing Lesbian Honors Student *UPDATE* (Original Post) Capt. Obvious Apr 2015 OP

update OKNancy Apr 2015 #1

Good for them. progressoid Apr 2015 #6

I have never understood 'prom culture.' It's a friggin high school dance. LeftinOH Apr 2015 #2

The Prom seems to me to be just a furtherance of the "Cotillion Ball" tradition.... A HERETIC I AM Apr 2015 #3

When I was a kid we had to organize our prom in secret because dancing was banned Capt. Obvious Apr 2015 #8

Tip: The only time someone's sexuality matters is if you are about to have sex with them. jeff47 Apr 2015 #4

For people who keep talking about limited government TBF Apr 2015 #7

What? No tuxes allowed? KamaAina Apr 2015 #5

Oh good lord.... Hell Hath No Fury Apr 2015 #9

I love that look Capt. Obvious Apr 2015 #10

man, that remidns me of one new bride (1960s) who had to learn the REAL ins and outs MisterP Apr 2015 #11

I joke a lot about my 12 years -- Hell Hath No Fury Apr 2015 #12

the US religious landscape isn't like other countries': only half are in "mainline" churches MisterP Apr 2015 #13

UPDATE: Capt. Obvious Apr 2015 #14

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)

1. update

Reply to Capt. Obvious (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 10:55 AM

Apr 2015

Update: After hearing of Love's plight from members of the community who saw The News-Star's article, Monroe City School Board President Rodney McFarland contacted The News-Star to say that he will take action on Love's behalf.

McFarland said he will contact Superintendent Brent Vidrine and request that he discuss the rule with the school's principal.

"As school board president, I don't agree with Carroll banning her from her prom just because of what she wants to wear -- that's discrimination," he said. "As far as I know there is no Monroe City School Board policy saying what someone has to wear to attend the prom. You can't just go making up policies."

http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/local/2015/04/03/gay-student-miss-prom-tux-rule/25247687/

progressoid

(50,000 posts)

6. Good for them.

Reply to OKNancy (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 12:59 PM

Apr 2015

Good to see some adults acting like adults.

LeftinOH

(5,359 posts)

2. I have never understood 'prom culture.' It's a friggin high school dance.

Reply to Capt. Obvious (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 11:49 AM

Apr 2015

The kids should wear whatever they want.

And, FWIW ..no, I never went. Spend a dessed-up evening with the same m*therf*ckers I see all day long? Nope.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,380 posts)

3. The Prom seems to me to be just a furtherance of the "Cotillion Ball" tradition....

Reply to LeftinOH (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 12:06 PM

Apr 2015

that was popular in the early days and was brought over from Europe.

A way for young people to dress as adults, so to speak, for the first time, and to be "presented" to society, albeit limited to their classmates.

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)

8. When I was a kid we had to organize our prom in secret because dancing was banned

Reply to LeftinOH (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 01:06 PM

Apr 2015

We held it in a barn just outside town limits.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)

4. Tip: The only time someone's sexuality matters is if you are about to have sex with them.

Reply to Capt. Obvious (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 12:14 PM

Apr 2015

If you are not about to have sex with them, then mind your own damn business.

TBF

(32,111 posts)

7. For people who keep talking about limited government

Reply to jeff47 (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 01:05 PM

Apr 2015

it is quite interesting to see what they DO want government to regulate. Sickos.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

5. What? No tuxes allowed?

Reply to Capt. Obvious (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 12:24 PM

Apr 2015

Doesn't this school have a dress code?

Hell Hath No Fury

(16,327 posts)

9. Oh good lord....

Reply to Capt. Obvious (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 01:42 PM

Apr 2015

Back in 1978 -- AT A FRICKIN' CATHOLIC ALL-GIRLS SCHOOL! -- a classmate of mine wore a baby blue tux with baby blue Converse high tops to our prom. That the Dominican sisters 30+ years ago were more forward thinking that this idiot is appalling.

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)

10. I love that look

Reply to Hell Hath No Fury (Reply #9)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 01:56 PM

Apr 2015

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

11. man, that remidns me of one new bride (1960s) who had to learn the REAL ins and outs

Reply to Hell Hath No Fury (Reply #9)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 02:00 PM

Apr 2015

of pregnancy from some Catholic pamphlets: her mother on the other hand had told her that kissing makes you pregnant ...

Hell Hath No Fury

(16,327 posts)

12. I joke a lot about my 12 years --

Reply to MisterP (Reply #11)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 04:14 PM

Apr 2015

of Catholic school, but I have to admit that we were taught hard science and openly learned about/debated issues such as abortion, premarital sex/living together, & the roles of women in society. I was just at a recent high school reunion with around 30 of my fellow classmates. Several of them are now "out" who openly talked about about and showed pictures of their wives/families. I am proud to say that there was not ONE woman -- including the Sisters who were attendance -- who was anything but positive and welcoming.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

13. the US religious landscape isn't like other countries': only half are in "mainline" churches

Reply to Hell Hath No Fury (Reply #12)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 05:28 PM

Apr 2015

while the rest are all DIY (one minister, one congregation, with nobody checking up on either), allowing for Duggars and Wacos and FLDSes and Carrie's mom

my devout Catholic relatives from the Continent are all gobsmacked that half the country thinks the Earth's 10,000 years old, but here it's set up so that one single eccentric can determine how 40% of the country thinks

of course none of this came to power naturally in the late 70s with the Reagan Coalition, and even the SoBapts needed a coup to get the way they are today

things could've gone so much differently, and the pendulum will swing once more: we just have to make sure it's being ridden by Warrens rather than Clintons

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)

14. UPDATE:

Reply to Capt. Obvious (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2015, 08:08 AM

Apr 2015

Super Rad Louisiana Lesbian Will Dance At Her Prom In A Tuxedo After All!

Well that was fast! On Monday, we told the story of a really cool high-school kid in Monroe, Louisiana, named Claudetteia Love. She’s an out lesbian, and she just wanted to wear a damn tuxedo to her prom, because she likes them. What could be wrong with that? Oh, the “lesbian” part, that’s what tripped up the school principal and some of the asshole adults who make up the faculty at Carroll High School. So the principal, Patrick Taylor, went and made up a new rule that said “no lesbians in tuxes at the prom,” because boys have a penis and girls have a vagina, or something, and Love and her friends decided they would just skip it.

Oh, but then it made national news! And then the National Center For Lesbian Rights decided to represent her, and the shaming was begunneth. Several days of that internet shaming, along with the snarky assist from the NCLR, seems to have fixed it up good, so go pick out your tux, Claudetteia, you and your BFFs are going to the ball!

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That’s right! We are sure that there is somebody in the situation who will take this as evidence that Big Gay controls everything, and Bryan Fischer will probably explain on the radio how this is JUST LIKE THE NAZIS, but the reality is simply that in 2015, anti-gay bigotry just doesn’t sit will with the townspeople! A lot of people out there are willing to stand up these days and say, “Hey, stop being an asshole to this nice honors student girl who happens to like other girls, what kind of dicks are you?”

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So, score one for Nice Time and goodness and fairness and equality and kids getting to be themselves at prom. We are very sorry for any Good Christian people who feel Holocausted by the outcome.

Wonkette

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