Since young women can no longer buy the “Too Pretty to do Homework” t-shirt, they can instead be kept in their place with this stylish “Allergic to Algebra” t-shirt from Forever 21. And just in case you weren’t getting the gendered message, this one is bright pink.
Hmm. A friend of mine has a little shop with her own handmade alternatives here:
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/leannich
Wow. Who buys this shit? (The stuff in the original post.)
petition for the store to remove the shirt: http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-forever-21-stop-selling-clothing-with-sexist-messages
Somehow in my pre-caffeine haze I managed to read that as “Addicted to Algebra.” Someone should make a shirt like that.
+1 for Sunset. Someone should make a shirt that says “addicted to algebra.” perhaps if Forever 21 thought to do that, they wouldn’t be in this mess.
+1 to Sunset! Someone should make an “addicted to algebra” shirt! It sure would have kept Forever 21 out of the doghouse :)
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