XHonusWagnerX
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dont call them 'wife beaters' in your sale flyer!
BOSTON -- Building 19, a discount store known for its quirky sales circulars, described a package of sleeveless T-shirts as "wife-beaters" in a recent
sales flier.
NewsCenter 5's Kelley Tuthill reported Tuesday that even store officials admitted that the flier went too far. It upset advocates for domestic
violence victims.
"I can't say what I thought. I know what I thought, but I can't say out loud what I thought," Jane Doe Inc. spokeswoman Mary Lauby said.
The flier advertised a three-pack of men's undershirts as "wife-beaters."
"That does, you know, go to numbing and dumbing down and normalizing and suggesting that battering is a normal behavior," Lauby said.
Building 19 spokesman Jerry Ellis took the criticism seriously.
"They were right. It was awful and I am sorry it happened," Ellis said.
E-mails came into the discount store's Hingham headquarters where everyone was apologetic.
"It's a slang expression, a street expression, but we should have known better not to use it. I am supposed to read every word. Sometimes it's busy or
I am lazy. We are working on a retraction," Ellis said.
| Quote: | Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
HONUS-as much as i can't stand a great deal of what you really like (for my own reasons that i would never hold,nor impose,against you),YOU FUCKING
RULE!
YOU,HONUS,IS WHAT MAKES THE "EDGE" COOL.
YOUR FRIEND,
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Kid Ugly
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I'm not usually one for being P.C., but this I have to agree with. This isn't like putting a Kwanza symbol amongst a Christmas Tree and a Menorah. I
haven't called A-shirts "wife-beaters" for years...domestic violence stirkes a strong nerve with me.
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While I hate pieces of shit who beat women, I've always called the shirts wifebeaters cause I've always known them as that. I think it's kinda funny
actually.
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defstarsteve
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when we actually have some in the def-star store
they will not be known as wife beaters
the will be called "Ike's"
the moest famous wife beater of them all
get your ike's fool
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tireironsaint
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Stupid PC bullshit. I hate domestic violence, but getting mad over a term used to describe a shirt because drunk white trash get busted on COPS after
beating their wives/sisters while wearing said shirt is fucking moronic.
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Kid Ugly
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tireironsaint
Stupid PC bullshit. I hate domestic violence, but getting mad over a term used to describe a shirt because drunk white trash get busted on COPS after
beating their wives/sisters while wearing said shirt is fucking moronic. |
By your logic, though, isn't it fucking moronic in the first place to give the shirts a nick-name after these assholes?
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HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHA. Your trying to sell some shirts and WIFEBEATERS are nto the way to do it.
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PC crap. Doesn't anyone have anything better to do. Like maybe the people complaining could expend their energy actually trying to stop domestic
violence. I don't think anyone thinks it "cool" to beat your wife.
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by defstarsteve
when we actually have some in the def-star store
they will not be known as wife beaters
the will be called "Ike's"
the moest famous wife beater of them all
get your ike's fool |
Thats pretty damn funny dude "hit me again Ike, and this time put some stank on it!!!" That dude was a serious shitbag
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| Quote: | Originally posted by defstarsteve
when we actually have some in the def-star store
they will not be known as wife beaters
the will be called "Ike's"
the moest famous wife beater of them all
get your ike's fool |
now that is priceless!
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