‘Feel for lumps, save your bumps’ slogan not allowed on cheerleader’s uniforms
A. Isaac 
In case you hadn’t noticed, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A month which features charity walks, fundraisers, and a lot of pink ribbons for the fight against the deadly disease.
One cheerleading squad, in Gilbert, Arizona wanted to do their part in bringing attention to the cause. Their plan was to raise money with the slogan, “Feel for lumps, save your bumps”. A little catch phrase that they could put on the backs of their t-shirts.
But school administrators weren’t having it, and told the girls they found it objectionable.
“In no way is the school administration against Breast Cancer Awareness Month or initiatives students might take in support of it; we just want to make sure we’re in the bounds of appropriate boundaries of a school setting,” Santa Cruz said.
The cheerleaders said they wanted to wear a shirt during their fundraising to coincide with the pink tape, gloves, shoelaces and wrist bands the football players are wearing during October, known nationwide as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The football players are also wearing breast-cancer awareness stickers on their helmets.
“Bumps” is a far cry from the more sexually suggestive slogans we’ve seen in the past. Among them “I heart boobies” and “save second base”.
Moreover, the cheerleaders aren’t the only school organization asked to tone down their language. The choir was asked to stop wearing shirts containing the phrase, “I’d hit that” and the sign-language club to halt the sexually explicit, “I’m good with my hands” (apologies as I laugh hysterically at that last one).
All in all, I should probably stop here lest I digress into a siloliquoy about how the breast cancer movement has reached its nadir.
Ariz. school objects to cheerleaders’ breast-cancer shirts [USA Today]
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