School Tries To Slut-Shame Female Students Into Keeping Their Legs Closed After Prom

If teeny bopper movies and after-school specials are to be believed, prom and sex go together like, well, prom and sex. It’s an old pop culture standby: prom night is the big night to finally get it on. Of course in real life we’re individuals who put a lot of consideration into our decisions to have sex or not, but a Wisconsin high school principal was still worried, so he decided to encourage students to make ‘good’ choices on prom night the only way he knew how: by allowing religious groups to sponsor and hang ridiculous posters encouraging girls not to do the horizontal boogey, or else.

According to Raw Story, staff at Lincoln High School in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, are removing a bunch of heinous anti-sex posters after their kickass student body voiced complaints over the posters’ sexist messages. The poster features the silhouette of a woman composed of words like classy, courageous, honest, and good, beneath the slogan “A Night To Protect Her Character.”

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Apparently a woman’s character depends solely on whether or not she has sex. We have to be super careful as ladies because if you stop pinching the aspirin between your knees for even a second, your character just goes flying right out of your vagina. No word on what happens to boys, but I’m pretty sure they just get high-fived.

The posters were sponsored by The Crossing of Manitowoc County, a Christian anti-abortion group, and Holy Family Memorial, a Catholic healthcare provider. At the bottom is the school principal’s signature as a symbol of endorsement. It’s a gross, sexist means of hocking virginity, and apparently students felt the same way.

Kelsey Schindl, a student at Lincoln, said she was disgusted by the notion that a woman’s character is dependent upon her virginity and tore down one of the posters as soon as she saw it.

Schindl said that she confronted the principal and even offered to make new posters from the school with a positive message of ”acceptance.”

”Just about everyone I’ve talked to sees just how messed up that poster really is and [the principal] should know the effect it has and how people feel,” she added. ”It’s not just my opinion.”

Schindl told Patheos that the principal declined her offer to make new posters, saying a more positive, accepting message would “tear at the fabric of society.” Schindl contacted the Freedom From Religion Foundation and other groups, and apparently did a stellar job of holding the principal’s feet to the fire because Wednesday he released a statement saying the posters had been removed.

”[A]ny message can be interpreted in a wide variety of ways,” Principal Valitchka said. ”The posters have been taken down and the school hopes that the focus of prom can return to what should be a positive social experience for our students.”

While it’s great to see the posters were taken down, it’d be even better if they never existed in the first place. Public high schools really aren’t the place for religious groups to do their advertising and slut-shaming is a really poor way of getting your message across. You know what would be awesome? Safe sex posters. Or maybe posters encouraging enthusiastic consent. Or maybe just a poster telling students to stay safe and have fun because you’re a public school principal and your sexist notions about purity don’t belong there.

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