Icky shirts
Aug. 8th, 2010 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athenaltenaI've seen two icky t-shirts as I was walking around Boston in the last few days.
One was "FBI: Female Body Inspector" worn by a guy at my gym.
The other was "Rub for Luck" worn by a woman walking past me on the street with the text, you guessed it, over the chest.
I thought about it for a bit, and I think both are equally icky, or at the very least they both inspired the same mental "Ew" reaction from me in more or less exactly the same tone.
Now I get it, both are trying to be funny. But still... really? Are people really going to wear those in public? And I know, free speech, don't censor other people's self expression, I just need to lighten up yada yada yada... but there's still a question of taste. I don't think there's a double standard for me since they both more or less inspired the same reaction, but they both seem to play into the same thing, mainly playing for laughs the invasion of another person's personal space and body, which makes me very uncomfortable. The one the woman had was maybe slightly better, but still, I think they were both pretty icky, at least by my standards. For the record if I saw a woman in a "Male Body Inspector" shirt I'd think it was equally icky as the "Female Body Inspector" one worn by that guy.
I will concede that both of those would be far, far worse if they were being worn by kids who had not picked them out themselves and were put into them by their parents. I can acknowledge that if you're an adult you have a right to wear what you want in public within reason (shoes, shirt, etc.) but making a kid wear those when they don't even know what they mean? That's not cool.
One was "FBI: Female Body Inspector" worn by a guy at my gym.
The other was "Rub for Luck" worn by a woman walking past me on the street with the text, you guessed it, over the chest.
I thought about it for a bit, and I think both are equally icky, or at the very least they both inspired the same mental "Ew" reaction from me in more or less exactly the same tone.
Now I get it, both are trying to be funny. But still... really? Are people really going to wear those in public? And I know, free speech, don't censor other people's self expression, I just need to lighten up yada yada yada... but there's still a question of taste. I don't think there's a double standard for me since they both more or less inspired the same reaction, but they both seem to play into the same thing, mainly playing for laughs the invasion of another person's personal space and body, which makes me very uncomfortable. The one the woman had was maybe slightly better, but still, I think they were both pretty icky, at least by my standards. For the record if I saw a woman in a "Male Body Inspector" shirt I'd think it was equally icky as the "Female Body Inspector" one worn by that guy.
I will concede that both of those would be far, far worse if they were being worn by kids who had not picked them out themselves and were put into them by their parents. I can acknowledge that if you're an adult you have a right to wear what you want in public within reason (shoes, shirt, etc.) but making a kid wear those when they don't even know what they mean? That's not cool.
