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Given I have seen bras, boxers, boys tighty whities, ladies undies, etc. at a young age hung from trees next to ski chairlifts, it does seem funny, however taken atad bit too far.
Maybe my Senior Prank seems much more tame than this. Mine was taking a picture of my computer teacher and super imposing it into a picture of him with the Village People and it saying "Macho Man" and another one of him withhh Aerosmith and it saying "Dude looks like a lady" and it being set for that day only as the school's background & screen saver (all with th school owner's permission of course) and no harm, no foul, and it could be removed easily.
It seems harmless to me. They didn't destroy any school property and had a little fun. I don't really see bra's as a sexual thing. To me they are undergarments, yes they can be used in a sexual way, but so can just about anything else.
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If the boys had hung their "tighty-whitey's" from the trees would you have felt differently?
was it destructive? no
was it sexual in nature? yes. bras are totally linked to the female in sexual ways. if they weren't boys wouldn't be been looking at the Sears Catalog at the turn of the century to see the underwear ads. it would have been the same if the boys put their undies in the trees.
There have to be at least 6 books published in just the last year about our sexualizing our girls at a younger and younger age. this by its very nature focusing attention on the female breast. and i'm not a prude, just a sociology major.
That senior prank seems like nothing compared to the one my DD's classmates did. I don't see any harm in hanging bras in the trees and waving them around-like someone else said, bras are undergarments just like underwear and socks. Just because it's a bra doesn't make it sexual in nature.
You had me laughing with the memory of my freshman year in college at Halloween. My girlfriends and I raided the boys dorm in search of their tighty whiteys and hung them on a tree in the parking lot.
I was just recently asked to donate a bra and $5 in honor of a friend with breast cancer. The flotilla of bras are to be carried in a Breast Cancer awareness walk.
What I think is worse than girls exposing themselves is the recent trend by young men - walking around with their pants below their butts and their undies all exposed. My kids die of embarrassment when I yell out the window "Nice Undies!"
Harmless...possibly
Sexual exposition...probably
Tasteless...definitely
I don't feel like it would have upset me, but I just don't think it is appropriate. I don't like to see girls' thongs or boys' boxers/briefs either. I guess I was also raised in the fashion of your "unmentionables" are to remain under your garments, and not for public consumption.
I think it's pretty harmless, although not in very good taste. Would I want my teenage daughter throwing her bra in a tree and wearing one outside of her shirt? No. But do I think she should be supsended for it? No.
My senior class prank involved releasing live chickens in a courtyard in the middle of the school (surrounded by indoor hallways, so no way for them to get out) and kids driving lawnmowers to school instead of cars. The lawnmowers were funny; the chickens (which I had nothing to do with) was funny for a second until someone had to catch them. No one got in trouble (mainly because the pricipal was retiring, so it was also his "last day"), but I felt bad for the chickens (and the janitor).
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The girls did not put their own bras in the trees, they bought bras at Goodwill and planned to re-donate them. I think the bras they were wearing on top of their shirts were probably from Goodwill too. They also collected money from the senior class to donate to a cancer charity in the name of an 8th grader girl who died in Feb. Our school is very small only 52 seniors, so only a few dozen girls and bras were involved.
They did not get in trouble and graduated on Sunday
Correction - the girls were not wearing bras on top of their shirts - it was a rumor that they cleared up today.
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Sadly there was an "end of the school year" prank played out in Atlanta and not by seniors where some kids decided to fill balloons up with bleach. Their thought was to ruin people's clothes, until they hit a kid in the face and the bleach went in his eyes and now he's blind. They're not sure if the blindness is temporary or permanent, it's too soon to tell.
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