Incoherent with rage.
JCPenney is in hot water today for marketing a t-shirt to little girls that promotes outrageously sexist messages. But while they’ve been busying yanking that shirt from their online availability, we find that this gem is still available.
The shirt says that a girl’s best subjects are boys, shopping, music, and, dancing — sentiments that don’t deviate too much from the other design encouraging little girls to think of themselves as too pretty to study mathematics.
Now, let’s forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice creamOh my god. What? It’s DEFINITELY targeted at the female gender, idk how sexist it is really. But they shouldn’t pull it from the shelves. Companies have a right to produce whatever the fuck they want and people have a right to buy it (to an extent don’t get carried away). I mean, fuck.
Listen, kid, don’t get this shit backward. It’s not that the government is stepping in and taking this thing off the shelves. We have a right to complain about it and pressure the company not to sell it. THAT is how the free market works. Don’t act like anybody’s trying to impede on Penny’s right to sell this sexist piece of garbage, it’s not about their right to do it. It’s about how the market responds. It’s not just simply not buying this product. We won’t shop there and we’ll bitch about it until they pull it and learn their lesson. We’re not using the law. No one’s calling the cops. What’s your problem?
Do not patronize me. Ever.
I really like how I never said anything about
- calling the cops
- anyone censoring JCP
- government
If I didn’t mention them, do not imply that I did in your rebuttal.
My statement was “they should not pull it from the shelves”. This shirt is meaningless to the company and keeping it around will do them more harm than good (profit vs. backlash). But, when I take money out of the equation, I do not see a reason to pull this. A bunch of bloggers and friends complained about a shirt they decided to look way far into. Boredom? I don’t know. This is literally a harmless article of clothing in comparison to some of the other shit I have seen. Girls typically enjoy boys, shopping, music, and dancing. If they don’t, they are free to not purchase this shirt. I hardly see “sexism” here. It’s not degrading. It’s stereotypical, sure, but it isn’t an attack.
Son, don’t lock horns with me. When you talk about people’s or a company’s rights (you said “Companies have a right to produce whatever the fuck they want” you’re talking about the government and about the law. That’s what ‘rights’ refers to: The law. By using this terminology you’re effectively creating a straw-man argument that makes you look like the innocent libertarian who just wants a free market, while you get to underhandedly jab at people who see this as sexist and are using the actual free market system to pressure Penny’s into pulling this sexist product off the shelves. If you don’t think it’s sexist, that’s a different conversation, but you made it about free-market idealism, so I’m forced to point out your two-faced hypocrisy.
Why don’t you just say what you mean, that you hate feminism and you love the marginalization of women and girls and think that it ought to be encouraged by major department store outlets? I’d at least respect your candor. You’re free to be a bigot, but don’t cloak your stupidity in some free-market argument or else I’m going to have to show you how your own ideas backfire.
