Topman, a chain of men’s clothing stores in the United Kingdom, was forced to remove hundreds of sexist t-shirts from its shelves.
Read ‘You provoked me’: Topman forced to remove T-shirts after slogans ‘glamorise domestic violence’ on DailyMail.co.uk.
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Ox Drover
I’ve done it myself in the past, made “cutsie” remarks about husbands hitting wives, etc. but I realize now that my “cutsie” comments were not CUTE and were not appropriate.
I am glad that this company was responsive to the public’s comments to them, but I am MORE PROUD that people would be offended by these shirts enough to take the trouble to contact the company and get some action from the company.
Maybe this kind of “humor” is no longer OK, which means that not only my awareness of the inappropriateness of this kind of “humor” has grown, but our culture as a whole is also growing aware as well.
panther
Oh….no. The comments are just as disturbing as the article. Those shirts made me cringe and more. Wouldn’t be surprised if the corporate big wig on top who “loved” this idea was a sociopath trying to convince the women of the whole world that they are crazy and need to just get over it, because this is “reality” and how all the world thinks.
MoonDancer
Oh My , This is going to be a good thread. We can all quote our favourite T- Shrit < that was a typo but think I will leave it anyway. Yeah the world is run by corperate greedy sociopaths…
btw My T- shirt say's " It is better to have loved and lost than to live with a physco the rest of your life.."
and what is your t shirt quote?
skylar
“Please! Don’t feed the psychopaths!”
and then my trademark logo underneath: A dull gray rock.
LOL!
Ox Drover
Oh, Hens, I will not answer that question for right now until I think of a KILLER caption! My favorite Tee of ALL times shows two buzzards sitting on a limb and one says to the other one “Patience my ass, I want to kill something!”
I like Sky’s tee caption, that’s a good one. Yours is good too, actually I have seen one that says about the same thing as yours. I do think LF needs ot have a Tee shirt collectionn with the LF logo on it and some captions. Could raise money to help Donna go to schools for programs.
MoonDancer
ya know it’s really starting to settle in my mind that he REALLY was a physco…sheesh what a trip that was..I have often said , ‘this is a life lesson so dont fail it’ but wait a minute – that seems to justify or rationalize what they are all about.. I take that back – I was intercepted by an Alien from the planet Fungus and survived to tell about it…~ Now go write that on a shirt and make a million dollars you greedy corrupt corperations ~!
Louise
Hens:
Hahaha…you are way too funny 🙂
Louise
Hens:
I thought about you today. The headline in my Local Living part of the newspaper was, “Hens in the ‘Hood.” 🙂
They are talking about urban chicken farmers…people who live in the city, but raise chickens in their backyard and then sell the eggs or keep them for themselves.
MoonDancer
I think there was a law past not long ago allowing people in city limits to have at most 8 chickens – one being a rooster. Or was that 7 roosters and one hens? hmm.
Ox Drover
If it makes any difference the female ducks sound LOUD “Quack” and the males just HISS quietly…but they are bullies! I’ve got 4 females and 2 male ducks and I think the total cost was about $100 each! That’s not counting my TIME and LABOR…or the STINK! But the eggs are great! I just can’t eat any of them now, I’m trying to kill son D by cholesterol poisoning, slowly clog his arteries, but he doesn’t care, he loves egg salad!