| Nature Leseul ( @ 2008-09-05 10:35:00 |
| Current location: | Work |
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Well, I own this t-shirt and like the anti-marriage message of it a lot, but but I've always been somewhat bothered by the implicit sexism and reinforcement of gender stereotypes. So I decided this morning that I'd finally look around for its opposite, with a frowning bride and smiling groom, which I've heard exists.
Now, maybe my Google-fu is just failing me today, but it's hard enough to find that design in the first place, and the one or two sites that actually do have it, only offer it in women's sizes. (And the original only in men's sizes.) For example, here and here. Do the people who make these things just not bother to consider the possibility that men just might sometimes want to recognize that marriage can suck just as much for women? Fail.
And I could understand if it was good-quality Target shirts that had made that choice, to focus their limited manufacturing resources on the styles that are most likely to sell. But this is a CafePress shop, for Goddess' sake. They could easily provide these things in any conceivable style with five seconds' thought and a click of a button.
Of course, what I'd really like to find is one with both figures frowning, but that might be expecting too much.