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Saturday 16 February 2013

Why Are People Mad At Your Funny T-Shirts?

By Clinton Ladd


So, you've just bought some funny t-shirts from somewhere on the Interweb. Congratulations on your new purchase! You're now ready to wear your new clothes out into the world and brighten the day of all you encounter with cheerful laughs and good times for all. You put on one of your new funny t-shirts and go to the Farmer's Market, where you plan on buying some delicious tomatoes.

Well, things are not going quite like you planned. You have succeeded in your mission of making it to the vegetable stand, but things have taken a turn for the worse. Just when you think people are about to start crowding around you, asking where you buy your funny t-shirts someone gets mad. You notice people are looking at your shirt in disgust. Control of the situation has spiraled away from you. They have grabbed their pitchforks and lit their torches. All is lost but why did they get so mad at you?

I can tell you what your problem is right now. Your taste in funny t-shirts may be great, but the problem is that you are part of a generation of people who have been completely desensitized to offensive material. You have spent so much of your younger years online, that there is nothing new under the sun that you have not seen. Car crashes, shoot-outs, nakedness, and cursing are how you spend your lazy down time. It's no wonder that you've become so blind to what is "offensive" and what is not.

If you are in doubt as to whether your brand-new funny t-shirts are offensive, and thusly unsafe to wear in public, then you need to take a step back and observe the situation with a critical eye. Does your shirt have anything to do with a political hot-topic, like abortion or gay marriage? Does your shirt have anything to do with any sexual acts? Does your t-shirt have any curse words that are harsher than something you would see on an episode of "The Simpsons?" If you said "yes" to any of these questions, then you should probably save your shirt for wearing around close friends.

So does this sound very fair to you? Should people be able to dictate what funny t-shirts you are allowed to wear and which you are prohibited from wearing? The idea of public opinion dictating the clothes that others are allowed to show the world seems a bit silly. Have you noticed how long people stare at something they find offensive? Wouldn't it be wiser and easier on everyone if people just looked away? These questions seem fair to me, but I doubt we'll see an end to public scorn for funny t-shirts anytime soon.




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