{"id":1939,"date":"2005-11-08T00:38:21","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T07:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/08\/girl-cott-succeeds-in-pulling-sexist-t-shirts-off-shelves-and-theres-a-contest\/"},"modified":"2005-11-08T00:38:21","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T07:38:21","slug":"girl-cott-succeeds-in-pulling-sexist-t-shirts-off-shelves-and-theres-a-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1939","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Girl-Cott&quot; succeeds in pulling sexist t-shirts off shelves (and there&#039;s a contest)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20051106\/us_nm\/retail_abercrombiefitch_dc\">Reuters<\/a>) &#8211; Retailer Abercrombie &#038; Fitch said on Friday it would stop selling some of its T-shirts after a national boycott by teenage girls, who objected to slogans emblazoned across the shirts such as &#8220;Who needs brains when you have these?&#8221;[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Women &#038; Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania launched a &#8220;girl-cott&#8221; of the store in protest over the T-shirts, launching an e-mail campaign and appearing on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show to air their concerns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pracut>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s certainly cool. Although the corporate drones folded so easily, I wonder if perhaps the initial sales on the retro-sexist tees were dissappointing.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/trishwilson.typepad.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/sexist_tshirts.html\">The Countess&#8217;s contest<\/a> for best offensive (or counter-offensive) t-shirt slogan. You could win some fine chocolate shaped like a body part &#8211; what could be better?<\/pracut>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Retailer Abercrombie &#038; Fitch said on Friday it would stop selling some of its T-shirts after a national boycott by teenage girls, who objected to slogans emblazoned across the shirts such as &#8220;Who needs brains when you have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}