"Female students at a Catholic high school in northern New Jersey have taken a “no-cursing” pledge at the request of school administrators, though some question why no such demand was made of male students." [NBC - Thanks, Heather!]

  • Brainspore

    That’s crazy. Back in my day, ALL the kids needed to learn cursive.

    • Felton / Moderator

      True.  It made our hand-written obscenities that much more elegant.

      • Brainspore

        Indeed…

        • kraut

          Can I just express my gratitude for that beautiful image. 

    • niktemadur

      The way I read it first, it was:
      “Catholic school forbids girls, but not boys, from cruising“.  Some nasty images of Al Pacino & friends popped to mind.

  • Navin_Johnson

     As usual, no shortage of idiocy from this organization. I think the German Arch-Bishop comparing recent criticism of the church to a “pogrom” a couple days ago pretty much trumps them all though……

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

    If I were a girl at this school I wouldn’t hesitate to call the “pledge” fucking stupid. 

  • That_Anonymous_Coward

    So that girls can learn early society has different rules.
    If a girl decides to have sex, she is a slutty whore.
    If a boy decided to have sex, he is a manly man.

    • http://profiles.google.com/virtual.garrett Garrett Bernstein

      In other words, homosexuality preserves girls’ honor and makes boys manly!

      • That_Anonymous_Coward

        Hooked on Penis… Worked for me!  :)

        • ldobe

          I tend to leave hooked penises alone

  • oldtaku

    The guys: ‘Fuck THAT.’

  • schlocktober

    You’ll never find a husband if you curse like a sailor!

    • http://www.facebook.com/heather.cristofaro Heather Cristofaro

       Unless he’s a pirate!

    • rocketpjs

      Funny cause my wife curses like a fisherwoman (which she once was).

  • Lobster

    In other news, Catholic schools now allowing education of girls.

  • dioptase

    Boy souls aren’t worth saving.  Girl souls, well, they fetch a pretty price on the black-market.  But only if undamaged.

    • That_Anonymous_Coward

      something something altar boys something something… hahahahaha… 

  • http://fungibleconvictions.com/ Andrew Whitacre

    Huh. It was my teachers at Catholic school who needed to be asked not to curse.

    • Jerril

      My vocabulary has definitely been permanently affected by my 2 years in Catholic school. I blame it on being at an impressionable age.

      I’m a third generation atheist, but if you surprise me enough “Holy Mary Mother of God” will pop right out of my mouth. More often it’s a trimmer “Holy fuck” but there’s still these holies floating around that I can’t seem to shake.

      I’m open to suggestions of substitutions :)

      • fuzzyfuzzyfungus

        ‘Jesus Golgotha-Poledancing Christ’ always works for me…

      • jimkirk

        I sometimes go with “Holey Moley Mother of God”…

      • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

        if you’re an atheist why would it bother you to say holy?

      • Antinous / Moderator

        I’m a third generation atheist, but if you surprise me enough “Holy Mary Mother of God” will pop right out of my mouth.

        That’s still better than yelling, “Most precious blood of the Lamb!”

        • feetleet

          Jesus fucking christ with a cucumber on a sawhorse.

      • Donald Petersen

        I take a page from J. Jonah Jameson’s book and trot out a “Great Caesar’s Ghost!” every now and then.

        • Boomer

           Perry White.

          • Donald Petersen

            Ah, yeah.  That guy.  I get my crusty comicbook news editors crossed all the damn time.

      • Mutation_Engine

         ’Jumping Jesus Christ on a nuclear-powered pogo stick’ is my fallback curse.

    • ldobe

      I usually go with “atheismo’s beard”

      • http://fungibleconvictions.com/ Andrew Whitacre

         If I might speak on behalf of my year, our favorite curse was by a beloved (and sadly, late) English teacher who yelled “NATTY FUCKIN’ BUMPPO”.

  • shutz

    It’s a Jersey thing.

  • SamLL

    Fuck sexism.

  • Daemonworks

    It’s because only women have the power to inflict harm through the use of black magic.

    • cub

       and our mojo is strong during the blood moon!

  • http://www.facebook.com/bazimmerman Brad Zimmerman

    No one has ever said that someone else “swears like a nun”.  Yet it is all too common to hear “swears like a [baker/builder/sailor/marine]“.  

    So, girls, just stick to obscenely short skirts and way too much makeup and let the boys swear, wreck stuff, and generally act like semi-evolved simians.

  • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

    The whole thing was likely started by the boys as catholic school girls are quite scary. I should know, it took me 11 years to build up the courage to talk to one. (and for the trouble I got a Doc Martin to the face)

  • http://www.leidentech.com leidentech

    Jesus mutha-fucking Christ.  Really? Still?

  • Frank W
  • Petzl

    This is why we hear so much about nefarious catholic priests, but nefarious nuns not so much.

  • rocketpjs

    Well, the Catholic school kids in my home town all made a fairly quick transition into being teen parents.  I suspect some of them swore when they found out.

  • feetleet

    You kiss the priest with that mouth?

    • chgoliz

      Too soon.

  • Mike

    The Dead Milkmen’s Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick always worked for me.

  • bjimba

    Holy shit, that’s *my* high school!  Of course, I graduated 37 years ago, but still…

    The school does have a long history of treating the sexes differently, though.  In fact, it was mostly segregated by gender when I was there.

  • fredges

    Well, the boys need to be able to talk dirty to the priests to get them off…. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nell-Anvoid/100002383626402 Nell Anvoid

    Dammit!  Twelve years of Catholic school, and I don’t have anything witty to write here. I feel so inadequate.

  • Hal

    “their improved manners would take hold and rub off … the boys”. /chortle

  • Shai_Hulud

     Well what a complete clustercuss…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJP31ZiUgeM