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Old 11-03-2005, 05:53 PM
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Offensive T-shirts?

I found this on my local news page...
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/wews/20051102/lo_wews/3033493[/url]
What are your thoughts on this?

Personaly, I think these people should ligthen up, the shirts are meant to be funny, not serious. About 90% of my t-shirts have a sexual double meaning, but I, nor most people around me, take them seriously. Most of the people that read my shirts actually laugh because they thing they are funny. Honestly, these girls shoud lighten up and take a joke.
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Old 11-03-2005, 05:57 PM
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Yeah, those girls should chill out. Those aren't half as "bad" as some of them out on the market. Like WildFyre said, it is a joke, not something meant to be taken seriously.
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Old 11-03-2005, 05:57 PM
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you want to see bad shirts......don't say I didn't warn you.

[url]www.tshirthell.com[/url]
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Old 11-03-2005, 06:01 PM
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^ Exactly my point. Those A&F ones aren't half as bad. Wait until those pissy girls get to that site.
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Old 11-03-2005, 06:08 PM
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That site had some pretty good shirts, granted I wouldnt wear a few of them for racist remarks, but some were pretty funny.

You gotta love how that site has an offer to pay for your transportation if you get kicked off a flight for wearing one of their shirts.
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Old 11-03-2005, 06:47 PM
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These people need to take a break. If they have a problem with the shirt, no one is forcing them to look at it.
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Old 11-03-2005, 07:10 PM
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I think its in bad taste for A&F to print them, because it is demeaning. However, its still their right to print them, and people vote with their dollars. Seems to me thats what these girls are doing.
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Old 11-03-2005, 07:19 PM
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Notice, if you click the Newsnet5 link, you get redirected to the ABC afilliate in Cleveland. Then note this quote:
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A group of girls in Pittsburgh is so upset by the T-shirts that they have decided to boycott the store completely.[/quote]

<Insert Pitt bashing joke here>

C'mon, its Ambercrappy and Stitch (note MY take on them). Who cares? If that's the case, then let's get after Spencer's and other stores for selling similar shirts. Sayings such as: "[I]I Used to be schizophrenic, but we're ok now[/I]," and "[I]My parents said I could become anything, so I became an a$$hole[/I]."

If anything, the mental health people should be after the first such saying...

The slogans in the news story? C'mon...those have been around since I was a teen. And that is back in the early 90s. If this shows that teen girls these days are that bad...I fear for the future of this country...and the guys that have to deal with these girls.
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Old 11-03-2005, 07:26 PM
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Those who wear those shirts should not persecuted because the shirts are offensive, rather because they are metrosexual and preppy enough to shop at Abercrombie and Fitch.

On a more serious note, I'm sort of on the girls' side. Do I find the shirts offensive? No, of course not. But then again, I'm a guy. I didn't take the time to check all of your genders, but I'm gonna assume you're all guys. You got to think about it from a different perspective than your own. Also, different people have different levels of tolerance, you can't fault somebody for not being as lenient as yourself. That being said, I have a good number of offensive shirts and will continue to wear them knowing full well that, while most people will enjoy them, a select few will hate me for it. I understand and accept this.
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Old 11-03-2005, 07:26 PM
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I have many shirts from sites like Engrish and TShirthell.
In 2004 I even got sent home from school and was told if I had the hoodie on once more in school I would be suspended.... The shirt said "I hate my life...." I also have a shirt that makes fun of sars and things being tested on animals...
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Old 11-03-2005, 07:50 PM
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You want a really bad thing...at work, I was told to turn my wrestling shirt inside out because on the front it said: You suck (on the back, Its True).

Nowhere near as bad as those "Big Johnson" shirts....
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Old 11-03-2005, 08:33 PM
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Thats retarded. When I was reading the post I was thinking obsenities. But come on Give me something to scream about isin't bad. I'd look great on you. How is that bad, It's a shirt, Might as well go after spencers to for selling fake (0)(0). Just like andrew said.


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Old 11-03-2005, 10:13 PM
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Dear God people, it's a T-shirt. I really don't like Abercrombie and Fitch, but if you have to complain about offensive things in this world, find something worth while. I don't think that A&F shirts like that are worth complaining about.
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Old 11-04-2005, 12:10 PM
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I think the shirts are offensive. I don't think that the company should be restricted from selling the shirts but I question those parents who let their daugthers wear those shirts.

Also another problem I have with it is the double standard it presents. A shirt that says something like "who needs brains when I have these?" printed right over where a girl's breasts will be asks to have her breasts stared at or at least read. Of course many of those same girls are going to be upset when their breasts are stared at by guys. The way I see it is if you're going to have a comment like that or showing an excess of cleavage, you have no right to think that your breasts are off limits for being looked at.

So ladies, don't get mad when I'm staring at your tits, I love 'em, can't help it. What's the point of showing them or having writing on them if you don't expect us to look at them? I wouldn't wear pants with my schlong hanging out if I had a problem with women looking at it.
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Old 11-04-2005, 01:21 PM
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It's funny to me that A&F started out as like a Brooks Brothers type store and somewhere along the way they turned into the trendy expensive Gap Wannabe they are now.

They like controversy. It sells. End of story.
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