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Thanks to the attentive reader who, knowing of Dawn's fondness for high school athletes, sent a news clip regarding a flap at Millard North High School (location unknown).

A Millard North yearbook picture depicting two football players wearing soap on a rope around their necks was altered by school administrators who used a magic marker to blot out the soap, reportedly because "some view the soap on a rope as a put-down of homosexuals."

The yearbook picture had been taken at a football game against Creighton Prep in September. Millard North students wore the soap on a rope as a taunt to the all-male school's team, apparently insinuating they were gay, Amy Friedman, a school district "spokesperson," said.

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Amy did not explain that the rope suggests the wearer would never need to bend over in the showers to retrieve dropped soap, thus protecting their butthole from the admiring gaze of other showering athletes. Nor did she offer any guess as to how much post-game sodomy students enjoy.

Friedman said members of the student-led Gay Straight Alliance, "sensitized" to "hate speech" concerns, would use the image of students wearing soap on a rope as an example of insensitivity to gay students.

"Yearbook photos should not be a put-down of any group of people," Friedman said. "Most adults will not understand why this would be controversial, but students know what it symbolizes." The decision to blot out the soap in the photo was not made because of a request of the alliance, she said. "It was the right thing to do because we want to provide a safe environment for all students," she said.

No doubt, would-be butthole voyeurs would applaud a ban on roped soap itself....