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What’s this? A post that’s not about mundane tasks I’m fulfilling so I don’t turn to drugs over the next 3 weeks?
Well, yes.
Novelty t-shirts: would you wear them out?
I was spurred on to this topic upon my perusal of this website, which probably contains some of the most awesome t-shirts on thar interwebz (kay, some of them are tacky, crass and tasteless, but some of them are good). This one, for example, provides me the funnies:
While I like the shirts, I would never be caught dead wearing one. Is it because of the offense it may cause? My sense of dignity? The insane prices?
Well, a combination of them, I suppose. One wouldn’t wear these shirts because it seems highly inappropriate to wear something that is intended to be funny – it lets people create an immediate opinion about them. “Make my dinner, you carpet munching gook” may seem utterly hilarious to one person, but it projects sexism, homophobia and racism. In a moral society which unfortunately relies on preconceptions, it would be foolish to do that – project it, that is. You can be sexist, homophobic and racist, but keep it closeted (ba dum, tish).
My opinion: novelty t-shirts are ugly and tacky. If I see people wearing them, I want to hit them in the throat. But that’d project my aggression and antipathy.
What do you think?
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