Thursday, September 01, 2011

JCPenney Pulls Controversial T Shirt

I for one think JCP 'wussed out' on this one. If women buy or approve of their children wearing them - then they deserve the pregnant, uneducated, hooked up with a looser teen they end up with.

JCPenney has agreed to pull a girls’ T shirt for sale on its website that said, "I'm too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me." The accompanying product description didn’t help matters, either: "Who has time for homework when there's a new Justin Bieber album out? She'll love this tee that's just as cute and sassy as she is." The shirt quickly became a viral sensation, with people tweeting in disgust and signing an online petition for the shirt to be removed from shelves. JCPenney said in a statement Wednesday that the shirt “does not send an appropriate message” and that the department-store chain would stop selling it immediately.

Read more

No comments: