I wonder if they're Gildan T-Shirts?

[bcholmes]

I'm sorry, but if your company now sells WBW¹ T-shirts, you can't claim "to promote visibility, unity and self esteem amongst Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans-gendered persons."

¹ WBW = Women Born Women (by which the speakers usually mean Cis women).

Edit: the original site in question has removed the T-shirt design. Good for them!

Comments

[trouble]

Oh gross. Fucking Mich-fest. And are those those disgusting axes? Arg.

[maevele]

Ewwwww. but what is our problem with the Axes? Is it only when used as a symbol of radfem bullshit and exclusivity? Because I, um, have a labrys ax tattooed on my arm, with a whole different gender context to it.

[trouble]

Oh gosh, I'm sorry. Yes, it's with the radfem bullshit. I find the use of axes with transmysogony really gross. I should have clarified, I'm sorry.

[maevele]

okay, cool. I find it extremely fucking gross too, because My axe is all, like, personal and genderqueer and trans and tied up with the amazons and I feel much more fucking reasonable use of the symbolism, and then it turns out the radfems claimed it for their trans hate and evil fucking bullshit. I was so psyched when the feminist bookstore had My axe as a pendant, but then I found out how radfems were using the symbol. So, yeah. I feel ya.

[elainegrey]

plagarized your post & sent it to the company. thanks for the pointer.

[frandroid]

Do a word search on the page. Two of the shirts are Gildan.

[erik]

Remember: oppression that happens to me is more oppressive than oppression that happens to you.

[kalmn]

oh, geez. it took me five minutes to figure out what the problem was with the shirts because it didn't even occur to me that people were still admitting to that particular form of asshattery enough to be commercially worthwhile. jesus haploid christ.

[bcholmes]

Would I take this conversation way off the rails if I gently suggested that the "it didn't even occur to me" part betrays a bit of cis privilege? I'm not chiding; I just thought, while reading your post, "huh. I never get to forget that."

[kalmn]

no, you would not. :)

feeling a need to dig myself deeper-- i knew people still thought this sort of shit. i just did not know that people still thought they could make money on it. i still say ugh to that, both to capitalism and to people being idiots.