And people wonder why there's a need for feminism

[effervescible]

Thanks to people with sense complaining, this tee has apparently been pulled from David & Goliath's online store, but it's appalling that it was sold at all:



HUMANITY: YOU'RE DOIN' IT WRONG.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_debbiechan_/]

OH JESUS. The fact that some model could even put it on and smile like that! O.O

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Maybe she was drunk. /sarcasm

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of university. (http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/dec6/thismag.html)

I feel queasy. Goddammit do we really need to explain this to every fucking generation?

[irenak.livejournal.com]

Um...um...

::cries::

Oh, universe.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's just... I can't imagine who ever thought that was funny.

[roserevolution.livejournal.com]

Rape =/= sexy

Try not me, not now...or ever.

[maeveth.livejournal.com]

To: Universe
From: Tez
Re: T-shirt design of gross

You FAIL.

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice. *shakes head* Real nice.

[sailormac.livejournal.com]

FAIL, FAIL and FAIL. Did they really think any woman would *wear* that ?

[buttercup0222.livejournal.com]

This shit pisses me off. RAGE.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

They only good thing about seeing that shirt on Feministing was the post just above it about protests getting it pulled.

[offscreen.livejournal.com]

I bet half the protests came from Jezebel readers.

[dougras.livejournal.com]

My favorite part is how, grammatically, it has two readings. Each one of them appalling.

The first (and I'm guessing the one they're going for) is that no means no, unless you fill her up with booze and then maybe it's okay to rape her.

The other is that no means no only when she's drunk, but even then only sometimes. "Well maybe if I'm drunk no means no." So then the implication is that you can always rape her if she hasn't had any liquor, and sometimes if she hasn't.

It's impossible to tell which it is, because this shirt has no clear and defining punctuation. What a great t-shirt.

[laurie-bunter.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, in my city (Manila) there are so many personalize-it stores, I see a lot of shirts that are equally, or even more disgusting than that. Every time I see one that demeaning, I just want to strangle the wearer.

The worst ones? Little kids wearing shirts that say stuff like "future porn star."