Quote:Deacon - I'm picking up what you're putting down and I like the outside the box analogy.

 

Saying it's 'only a shirt' or the 'women need to change how they're dressing' to make the changes happen is akin to the "she deserved it because she was flirty".... I'll leave that alone because we're delving into a much broader subject than a sexist shirt. And lets not kid ourselves, it was a low key sexist shirt even if it was 'just a shirt'. 

 

JJ - you can't create a topic and then think it ridiculous that not everyone agrees with your take. I may have seen this story and not taken the time to create a topic on it, but you did. The fact of the matter is, as seemingly harmless as the childs shirt appears, it doesn't dismiss the fact that there are people up in arms because it's just another example of feeding into the issues we STILL face. Racism exists, sexism exists, age-ism, as Deacon pointed out, DOES exist. No matter how unimportant you feel this particular example may be, these discriminatory issues exist and to deny any of it is to be wantonly ignorant. 

 

I am not saying that the world is perfect, I have said that already.

 

I started this thread as an illustration of PC going overboard.  A t-shirt that talks about a teenage girl dry cleaning her cape isn't preventing a young woman from being an astronaut or CEO or anything of the sort. 

 

Peter Parker wasn't a billionaire, so he had to clean his own suit.  That's just part of the personal responsibility required of every citizen within the super hero community.  Next thing you know there will be petitions and protests outside DC comics to write in a sales tax credit for Batgirl on her dry cleaning because Bruce Wayne doesn't have to. 

 

I believe that in order for a society to be complete/whole that we need contributions from everyone of every background circumstances race gender or creed.  To deny women the ability to realize their potential, plot their own course and make their own decisions makes society as a whole weaker and less perfect.  Celebrating and encouraging women to pursue excellence in whatever endeavor they see fit is the true essence of equality and justice, not  demonizing a shirt.

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