Texas school board blocks "Virginia" due to the *nipple* on the flag

[underpants]

What a boob: Texas school district bans Virginia state flag and seal over naked breast

Virginia’s state flag and seal, depicting the Roman goddess Virtus standing over a slain tyrant, her drooping toga exposing her left breast, has been banned from younger students in a Texas school district.

The district, Lamar consolidated independent school district, near Houston, took action against the image late last year when it removed a section about Virginia from its online learning platform used by third through fifth graders, typically encompassing ages eight to 11, sparking a row, Axios reported on Thursday.

The Texas Freedom to Read Project, a group that opposes censorship and book bans in the state, said it had “unlocked a new level of dystopian, book-banning, and censorship hell in Texas” when it discovered that students in Lamar can no longer learn about the state of Virginia on their online research database, PebbleGo Next.

The group said that after it filed a public records request, the school district acknowledged that “Virginia” had been removed from the website due to the lesson violating the school board’s local library policy banning any “visual depictions or illustrations of frontal nudity” in elementary school library material.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/texas-bans-virginia-flag-breast

[Irish_Dem]

1. MAGA obsession with sex is pathological.

They are projecting their sexual deviancy every day.

[Clouds Passing]

2. Coming from the State of decadence and disgrace.

No dishonor to texans who did not vote for this shit

[Norbert]

3. Yet, putting an accused rapist in office is perfectly acceptable

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Just pixilate it, and really highlight just how ludricrous you are.

[underpants]

11. There are no nipple options

I’ve bought things at work with the state seal on them. I take great joy in adding in “One last question, nipple or no nipple?”

[allegorical oracle]

25. Is that TSF under her left foot? If not, it should be reworked accordingly. nt

[Firestorm49]

5. Don't these guys have anything better to do? They bitch about a nipple while looking at child porn.

[dalton99a]

6. The fate of tyrants

[BoRaGard]

17. This will be a popular t-shirt, me thinks

[Walleye]

7. I don't think it's the boob they really object to. I think it is a female warrior, defeating a tyrant that offends them.

A woman defeating a male dictator, they can’t have that.

[GreenWave]

12. And maybe the phallus type object off to the extreme right (like they are.)

[Jerry2144]

8. As a young boy, I used to enjoy that flag and the old Starbucks logo

during my alone time. Because they are so hot. /s It's not like I couldn't see real ones on HBO or in numerous magazines. Or now the internet.

How stupid are they? Breasts give life. Nothing obscene about them. If one finds a naked one offensive, then one ought to re-examine their mental state

[BoRaGard]

9. If it was a dick, the G.O.P. would be ecstatic

[boonecreek]

10. If it weren't for the Guardian link

I would have sworn this was the Onion or Borowitz.

[dalton99a]

13. Other outlets are covering it

[allegorical oracle]

26. One boob does not "frontal nudity" make. nt

[MagickMuffin]

14. Texas republicans DRAGGING us back into the dark ages

No thanks! I vote against this every election cycle, plus the fact I’m a Democrat.

This also reminds me of John Ashcroft covering up Lady Liberty for the same reason. Bare breast scares these manly men. They can’t handle it. It makes them so uncomfortable.

[Ping Tung]

15. How about if Virginia replaes it with a shirtless George Washington? Or this bloke?

[H2O Man]

16. Nipples are scary

and unnatural. We must protect the children.

Recommended.

[MineralMan]

18. And yet, nobody objects to men's nipples being on display.

Same body part.

It's amusing, as always.

[Qutzupalotl]

19. wait till they hear about the motto.

[underpants]

21. More.

Battles over Virginia’s seal and flag date back to 1776 when the commonwealth wanted to appear strong during the war of independence over British rule and hit on the image of Virtus, wielding a sword and spear, and the inscription “Sic Semper Tyrannis” or “Thus always to tyrants”, next to a body and fallen crown.

At that time, the tyrant was taken as a symbol of England’s King George III, and Virtus more like a warrior in the Ottoman empire than a Roman deity. Over the years, the image was adapted in various ways.

In 1901, Virginia officials ordered that the depiction of the bared breast be included to show clearly that the figure of Virtus was female.

[Renew Deal]

20. It makes sense. These poor kids have never seen nipples before

DON'T LOOK DOWN!

[MineralMan]

23. We all have at least two of them.

Some people have a few more than that. But, we all are born with two nipples. You'd think we'd be used to seeing them.

[Conjuay]

28. hell, we've gotten used to seeing Malaria's, what's the big deal?

[CTyankee]

30. We can't forget that she's our first First Lady to pose in the nude!

Lose your minds, pre-verts!

[orangecrush]

22. ...

[Initech]

24. Their insanity gets worse by the day.

[sakabatou]

27. Reminds me of that time in the 2000s

when either a Congressman or USSC justice put a scarf on a statue to "cover her up".

[underpants]

32. That was the Attorney General of the United States John Ashcroft

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cover-up-at-justice-department/

[sakabatou]

34. Yeah, him

[dalton99a]

33. +1

With the 'Spirit of Justice' statue behind him, former Attorney General John Ashcroft addresses employees at the Justice Department in Washington on Nov. 8, 2001. Kamenko Pajic / AP file

[onenote]

29. Next up: putting blindfolds on breast-feeding babies.

[CTyankee]

31. Shh...don't give them any ideas!