13-Year-Old Boy Suspended For Carrying Purse At School

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Ampersand

From a Fox News site, credited to CNNwire, but also credited to KCTV:

Boy, 13, Suspended Over Vera Bradley Purse

Garnett, KS (KCTV) — A 13-year-old Kansas eighth-grader says he was suspended from school on Wednesday because he refused to take off his Vera Bradley purse.

His furious mother says it is discrimination because girls are allowed to have purses with no repercussions.

“I don’t think everyone should be treated differently,” Skylar Davis said. “Everyone should have the same privileges.”

Anderson County School District officials did not respond to KCTV5′s repeated efforts to get a comment.

No forcible gender-norming going on there. No sir!

Thanks to Grace for pointing out this story to me.

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2 Responses to 13-Year-Old Boy Suspended For Carrying Purse At School

  1. 1
    Chris says:
    November 9, 2013 at 10:06 am

    Surely, this must be part of the “war on boys” conservatives have warned us all about.

  2. 2
    J. Otto Pohl says:
    November 17, 2013 at 7:32 pm

    I started carrying a purse this year. Of course here in Ghana most men do have purses so it doesn’t stick out in anyway. I got a nice masculine purse at Keneshie market.