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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
It's a shirt that perpetuates a negative stereotype.
Whether or not my daughter has that shirt, she has to deal with the type of culture it represents and perpetuates.
I will always protest anything which denigrates women and their intellectual ability.
After all , I'm a sorority woman; I am the product of an organization founded by women who were told they were too weak intellectually to succeed at the college level. They fought in 1874, I'm still fighting in 2011. I am the mother of two daughters, and I've had to raise them in a culture that even in this day and age will try to sexualize them and teach them their worth is bound up in their appeal to the opposite sex. Nope, not doing it.
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@ 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.
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Do you really think this is comparable? If so, it is no surprise that you disagree.
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I do. I agree with someone who posted earlier -- I don't think the line has been crossed with this specific shirt.
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Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie
That's the best part - if you wanted to petition them, you could, and if they felt that having Spencers in their mall outweighed having your business, they'd tell you to take a flying leap. That's the beauty of a free market (and a free country). I have petitioned, written letters, and protested against things that I find offensive. I do it as much to exercise my right to free speech as I do because I think it might make a difference.
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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.
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