And what site is that? I'm guessing - non-Disney. Look on the DISNEY site - nothing. Disney EVERY DAY has a Main Street Parade which features guests - IT IS NOT A SPECIAL DISNEY SPONSORED PARADE FOR GAY DAYS. Disney decided early on to simply treat all their guests the same - so if a large group comes for Gay Days, they will be given the opportunity to join ALL the other guests.

So, yes. "Like any other group". If your sorority decides to descend en mass to the Magic Kingdom in matching shirts, you too can have your "own" parade.

No, that's (one of) Disney's daily parade and there are so many people in the GayDays Red shirts that it's a sea of red.

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If I saw this shirt at a department store or a mainstream seller, I would do more than just not purchase it and tell the people in my vicinity not to purchase it.

@ the bold - It does suck, and I hope folks don't think that I like the shirt.

Using the Greek example -- How many shirts are out there with "Iota Tappa Keg" or "I Felta Thigh" written across the front? I think they're extremely tacky, but there are people out there that like them. I'm not going to write a letter demanding that their production be stopped because I don't like them.

I do. I agree with someone who posted earlier -- I don't think the line has been crossed with this specific shirt.

I know that I have the ability to petition the malls, but my point is that I wouldn't do it for a situation like this.

Well for most teens and young girls, that is not going to happen. They are not going to listen to their parents no matter how much they're told something. They're going to do/wear/say what their friends are doing, or what's popular in the stores.

Then it makes sense that you disagree.

There is no definite line and we don't have to personally agree on such matters for them to exist and persist.

@ Drole -- At the rest of your post, fair enough, but...

I wasn't trying to turn this into a "know your place, little lady" thing. Yes, folks (men, women, black, white, whatever) should speak up on things, but I just felt like THIS shirt was much ado about nothing.

I doubt that a shirt like this would make it's way to a mainstream seller, but I get your point. I think this shirt would be over that line. But I also think that a shirt saying "I fucked my way to the top" or "On my way to being barefoot and pregnant" would be over the line, if it were to be sold at JCP/other dept store.

That's not JCP's fault, though.

I know ;)

I know you weren't, but that's because you don't think there's anything wrong with it. Of course you're going to think it's silly to speak up when there's nothing wrong with it if you don't think there's anything wrong with it.

I'm very much in favor of women speaking up to influence the messages that are being given to our - society's- daughters. They deserve to receive healthy positive messages not unhealthy negative ones.

So, contrary to your previous posts, your issue isn't with people protesting and getting things removed. Your issue is with what the subjective line is? You are stuck in the personal opinion of what people should and should not raise an issue about. You need to grasp the aggregate effect.

Jessica Simpson.

Yes and not only women and not only messages given to society's daughters. Feminists of all genders can speak up about something even when people (including other feminists) disagree with them.

I put this line...

...in for a reason. As much as I don't like the shirt in the picture you posted, there may be a niche market for it. If someone wants to shop at Klan-Mart to get it, fine. I wouldn't protest that, as someone buying that item has every right to do so.

I don't know. The "protest any and everything" mentality just rubs me the wrong way in many instances, not just this one.

+1.

No, department stores and mainstream retailers, which includes K-Mart, are not the niche market for such items.

This is faulty logic. Just because you personally disagree with something doesn't mean that it is "protest any and everything." Don't you dare demean and reduce the perspectives of others; and the larger implications that exist and persist regardless of personal opinions.