Mixed Emotions About These Tees…

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Available here. I know they are just supposed to be funny, but there is something weird about the messages too. Somehow they possibly embrace rather than subvert patriarchy? Or maybe I’m taking this too seriously.

–Ann Bartow

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0 Responses to Mixed Emotions About These Tees…

  1. Nancy says:

    I’m with you on this one, especially the first one, implying that the man automatically pays for dinner. You can’t get much more traditionalist than that.

    And then there’s the problem of equating saying you’re a feminist with buying a woman things in order to get her to fuck you, which is what the dinner-buying and flower-giving has always been about.

  2. Patrick Seamus says:

    I know in my own case that ‘dinner-buying’ and ‘flower-giving’ (never did too much of the latter) were not about ‘getting her to fuck me.’

    I don’t like either t-shirt.

  3. Ann Bartow says:

    Women who work can always buy their own dinner and flowers, so maybe, Patrick Seamus, you are attracted to independent women!

    I do understand that they are a way to get younger women of a certain bent to proudly identify as feminists. But…

  4. Diane says:

    I don’t like either, but the first one is offensive because of the assumption it makes prior to delivering the punch line.