The case of the cursing cheerleader shows how we police profanity | Arwa Mahdawi

The teen was victorious in the supreme court - but would she have been punished in the first place if she were a boy?

It's been a great week for cheerleaders fond of tossing around the occasional F-bomb. On Wednesday the US supreme court ruled that a Pennsylvania public school violated a 14-year-old student's first amendment freedom of speech rights when it suspended her from the cheerleading team because of an expletive-ridden social media post she'd sent from outside school premises.