[Closed] Is this T-Shirt offensive?

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."

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

You're quite right. I got a chip butty the other day and the bap it came on was tiny. Down with small baps!

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.

Pah! They're probably all lezzers anyway 😉

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.

[i] "Show me your genuinely humorous tee-shirts"?[/i]

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?

DezB - I'm offended at your flagrant swear-filter avoidance.

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..

No

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.

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?

Ok then, would you like to enlighten me?

I like the T-shirt. I'd wear it with pride! What's the problem? Pussies!

Junkyard - 🙂

Even the t-shirt cannot stop them ❗

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?

Eh?

Maybe it's someone from Hope?

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If it's good enough for Hope it's good enough for STW.

"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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with appropriate comment added bigyinn 😀

Not as offensive as the **** who will be wearing it.
who will invariably be called Gaz, Baz or Daz

I agree with Mrs Toast in that at least when the douche-bags wear the tshirts, they are easier to identify.

[i]who will invariably be called Gaz, Baz or Daz[/i]

phew

HAHAHAHA Yes or Davie-boy, or Stevie-boy or something like that.

Hey, what's wrong with Baz, Gaz and Daz? they're good friends of mine.

There's nothing wrong with admiring the female form and advertising the fact with a humorous T-shirt.

phew

...or Dez, Tez or Bez and anyone who wears a fez.

8)

There's nothing wrong with admiring the female form and advertising the fact with a humorous T-shirt.

Possibly not. That's hardly it tho 🙂

Or Les

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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?

The troll in me wants to say, "yes, it means she'd be putting personal feelings in front of rational business decisions, which is why a man should be doing that job instead," but I'd worry that someone might actually think I'm being remotely serious.

Devil's advocates aside, I guess all it really means is that you can speculate with the best of them. You can't seriously be making up a hypothetical situation, giving it a fictitious conclusion and then going "so that proves it then," shirley?

Dez, Tez or Bez

No, that'd be Dezza, Tezza and Bezza.

Or Les

... wait a minute.

That's hardly it tho

What's not hardly what?

No, that'd be Dezza, Tezza and Bezza.

If we add Jezza then we can merge this bun fight into a Top Gear teeth gnashing session as well.

2 for the price of 1.

I worry sometimes that I'm too subtle.

A Lezza, yesterday

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I worry sometimes that I'm too subtle.

Easy to remedy.

Forget T-shirts, I'm offended by these socks:
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You'd be wrong, though

[pantomime mode] oh no I wouldn't[/pantomime mode]

At least you've found your level.

you showed me the way.. and for that I will always love you