From feminsting:

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In addition to being heinously ugly, this shirt represents some serious misogyny. And it's being sold at Wal-Mart. A woman in North Carolina who noticed the shirt is also a stalking victim, and she's justifiably horrified.

"People don't realize how serious stalking is," she said. "You constantly live in fear, look over your shoulder and suffer from psychological and physical symptoms due to the stress of the stalker."

"Joke" shirts like these only further promote the idea that stalking is just romance taken a little too far. It's not. It's about power and control, and it's fucking scary as hell.

The NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence says that they're taking action and have been in contact with Wal-Mart. So far, no response.

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised however, when you consider the company's history with sexist shirts...

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More here ...

[ 01 October 2007: Message edited by: jrose ]

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Wal-Mart has even made anti-woman statements in the culture wars through products it chooses to sell, and those it chooses not to sell. Ten years ago, it pulled T-shirts that read, “Some Day a Woman Will Be President,” featuring Margaret from “Dennis the Menace.” Wal-Mart called the shirts “offensive” and “against Wal-Mart’s family values.” But it continues to sell violent video games such as the Grand Theft Auto series, where players get points for having sex with a prostitute and garner even higher scores for killing her to avoid payment.

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jrose: One of these days I will learn how to embed a picture into babble, but until then ...

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Now's as good a time as any.

If you go to the website with the picture you are interested in and right-click your mouse over the picture you will get a menu of items that includes "Copy Image Location". Go ahead and left-click on that choice in the list.

Now go to babble and, after you've started entering a reply to a thread, (which you know how to do already) left-click on the Instant Formatting item called "image". A dialogue box will come up which asks for the URL. So, you simply "paste" the URL of the image ( Control "V")and the image will then be added to your reply. You can add a title above or a caption below for extra bonus points. Heh.

Voila!

Jeezus....

(corrected because the previous comment was an insult to bastards worldwide.)

[ 02 October 2007: Message edited by: Ken Burch ]

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Suggestive pink Santa panties targeting young girls are being removed from Wal-Mart stores after parents objected to the offensive undergarments.

The panties, which were sold in the juniors department, seemed to suggest that girls don't need money, they just need a sugar daddy — in this case Santa Claus.

The hipster briefs — carrying the slogan "Who needs credit cards ..." on the front and "When you have Santa" on the derriere — caused an uproar among parents, who called for the $2.96 drawers to be pulled off the racks.

"We have directed our stores to remove this merchandise from our shelves," Linda Brown Blakely, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart, told FOXNews.com Wednesday. ...

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