From: usteen@asdf.fi   
      
   For anyone who's reading these:   
      
   When class pictures were ready in Batavia, Ohio, 13-year-old Sophie   
   Thomas 'checked it to make sure I didn't look dumb or anything [and]   
   saw that they had removed the word from my shirt, and I was insanely   
   upset'.  While the 'FEMINIST' top doesn't violate the school's dress   
   code, Principal Kendra Young explained to reporters, she had wanted to   
   minimise controversy, since some might find the word offensive.  She   
   has since apologised for the decision and is having a speaker on   
   women's issues visit the school.   
     School superintendent Ralph Shell, who claims that Thomas and her   
   parents both had consented to the removal, said: 'This particular   
   photograph not only had the word "feminism" in the front row very   
   plainly could be seen, but there was also some young men in the   
   background that were doing not appropriate things with their hands.   
   So the principal made the decision to airbrush the word "feminism" and   
   the hands out.'   
      
     Sophie Thomas = Photo amiss, eh?   
                     Photo is shame   
                     Soothe mishap   
      
   And for the hands:   
     Obscene gestures = One begets curses.   
      
      
     Censor us:   
     'No curses!'   
      
      
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