The t-shirts themselves are never as offensive as the conclusions i make about the wearers.
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Is this T-Shirt offensive?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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b) you should try being a woman some time.
Because there's only one 'type' of woman? Because all women are the same? That's just 'positive' prejudice; surely?
No, because you would experience how society behaves to women in general, and what it might feel like. You might not care, but you might.
Or to put it another way, try seeing things from someone else's point of view instead of flaming them for having one.
Thing is, historically women are often the victim of things like stalking and voyeurism, it can be part of wider abuse and intimidation but it's usually not very nice if it's unwanted.
This t-shirt just makes a joke out of it.
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It's not particularly offensive. It is, however, shit, even by Tesco Value t-shirt standards.
Frankly if that's the worst thing "Object" can find to object to, they might as well close up shop, their work is done.
Mate of mine once got asked in a restaurant to do something about his attire or leave. He was wearing this - http://images.esellerpro.com/2431/I/673/medscaleDSCF3341.JPG (SFW warning, picture contains rude word, hence not hotlinked). He ended up turning it inside-out for the duration of the meal.
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This t-shirt just makes a joke out of it.
I think perhaps the tee makes a joke out of the type of 'lad' who would wear such a garment. Arguably, it's irony (or I'm giving Tesco too much credit).
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let's be brutally frank here. The words 'humorous' and 't-shirt' are hardly a match made in heaven, are they really? Ever!
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The words 'humorous' and 't-shirt' are hardly a match made in heaven
If that's true, I need to discard half of my wardrobe.
Hm, maybe there's a thread in that, "Show me your genuinely humorous tee-shirts"?
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Mate of mine once got asked in a restaurant to do something about his attire or leave. He was wearing this - http://images.esellerpro.com/2431/I/673/medscaleDSCF3341.JPG (SFW warning, picture contains rude word, hence not hotlinked). He ended up turning it inside-out for the duration of the meal.
Sadder than the tesco t-shirt. And I like Red Dwarf.Posted 1 year ago # -
No arguments here.
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If find shopping at Tesco / people who are foolish enough to shop at Tesco offensive..
The T-shirt (as stated above )is a great way of letting the world know you're a Townie d*ck...
What's wrong with shopping at Tesco? What's Townieness got to do with anything?
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No, because you would experience how society behaves to women in general, and what it might feel like. You might not care, but you might.
Or to put it another way, try seeing things from someone else's point of view instead of flaming them for having one.
It's like you haven't yet noticed that the moral high-horse you're on is actually stood, and probably trapped, in a hole. I'm sure you're a lovely bloke, molgrips, but you're about as sharp as a marble.
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Thing is, it's all relative. It's probably not wholly difficult to get a t-shirt which alludes to being fellated by the Queen, or promotes genocide of all the brown people, for instance.
Comparatively here, we've got some halfwit wrapping his beer-belly in a t-shirt whose entire raison d'etre revolves around a bird (feathered variety) / bird (mildly derogatory slang for 'woman') "pun" and some graphics that a GSCE art student would be ashamed of.
I fear that what we're missing here, perhaps, is what politicians might call "bigger issues."
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I fear that what we're missing here, perhaps, is what politicians might call "bigger issues."
I agree. Well, so long as what you are referring to is the fact the 'birds' in the picture could do with bigger baps. If this is what you mean, then I agree with Cougar
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You're quite right. I got a chip butty the other day and the bap it came on was tiny. Down with small baps!
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Apropos of nothing,
Object's campaign page on "beauty pageants" is four pages long. Their campaign page on "violence against women" is four sentences. It seems that their focus pretty much in its entirely is exactly this sort of thing, historically they've targeted "lads mags" and strip clubs and suchlike also.
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Pah! They're probably all lezzers anyway
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I was at a little festival in the west country a few years ago and I walked past a miserable looking sod wearing a t-shirt that said 'Juggling is Shit'.
Only t-shirt that has actually made me laugh aloud.
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"Show me your genuinely humorous tee-shirts"?
Humourous, maybe. Appropriate? Definitely.
(not really a real t-shirt btw)
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(not really a real t-shirt btw)
But it should be................................anyone?
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DezB - I'm offended at your flagrant swear-filter avoidance.
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I'm sure you're a lovely bloke, molgrips, but you're about as sharp as a marble.
from this unbiased point of view.. I think that the point is being very much missed.. but by the accusers.. and that the intelligence deficit is very firmly in the other direction..
ironically..
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No
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A spokeswoman for Object yesterday....
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I think that the point is being very much missed.. but by the accusers.. and that the intelligence deficit is very firmly in the other direction.
You'd be wrong, though.
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no he would not be, you would be.
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It's like you haven't yet noticed that the moral high-horse you're on is actually stood, and probably trapped, in a hole. I'm sure you're a lovely bloke, molgrips, but you're about as sharp as a marble.
Ok then, would you like to enlighten me?
I think perhaps the tee makes a joke out of the type of 'lad' who would wear such a garment. Arguably, it's irony (or I'm giving Tesco too much credit).
Yeah, perhaps.. but then again perhaps not. Hard to say. Plus it's about the spirit with which it's worn I suspect. Although that's very hard to prove one way or the other.
Frankly if that's the worst thing "Object" can find to object to, they might as well close up shop, their work is done
Is it the worst they can find?
I bet that if the head of Tesco value tshirts was a woman who'd been subjected to stalking, the design would not have got through. That means something doesn't it?
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Ok then, would you like to enlighten me?
Dont be silly now , they dont have reasonable points to make. It is why the wrapped so many digs up into that one sentence rather than using logic or reason to sway youPosted 1 year ago # -
I like the T-shirt. I'd wear it with pride! What's the problem? Pussies!
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Junkyard -
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Even the t-shirt cannot stop them
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sh1tforbrains
A login with swearfilter avoidance - crikey
I'm just wondering - do some people have a login appropriate to a variety of topics and the nature of their response?
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Eh?
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Maybe it's someone from Hope?
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If it's good enough for Hope it's good enough for STW.
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"This T-shirt is objectionable on so many levels," said Anna van Heeswijk, campaigns manager for lobby organisation Object.
Somali Cerise, prevention manager for the End Violence Against Women coalition, added: "It is deeply concerning that a major high-street retailer such as Tesco sells products that perpetuate the sexualisation of women.
I'm guessing we've found TJ's & Elfins real names then
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