Sydney based t-shirt designer, GoatBoy, is copping flack for selling shirts with slogans such as ‘She’s Dead – Get Over It’ and ‘Kings Cross Police Now Targeting Fat Chicks.’
Eva Cox from the Women’s Electoral Lobby told the media that the t-shirts are tasteless, crappy, crass and stupid and if people want to be seen as tasteless, crappy, crass and stupid, they’ll wear the shirts.
Young Media Australia and a monarchist professor also criticised the slogans.
But GoatBoy, which is run by two mates, points out on their website that if anyone gets offended by their designs, they are wasting their righteous indignation on a bloody tshirt, when they should save it for something that actually matters.
“Like the insane war in Iraq, and the coming one in Iran.”
Too right. If you don’t like it, don’t wear it. Unfortunately, groups like YMA would prefer to decide not only what we can and can’t see, but also wear.
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Apr 15, 2008
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kristen says:
May 15, 2009
that is just plain mean how could you do that lady dianna was a nice caring person and im sure if that ugly girl had aids she would help her and she would like her then so why would you wear that!?!??!? it just makes me so mad at that girl! just bc she has big boobs dosent mean she should wear tat shirt!
Steve says:
May 15, 2009
as said
SHE’S DEAD
GET OVER IT!!
Nick says:
Jun 29, 2010
Pretty stupid on the part of goatboys…no surprise with today’s ignorant youth. Yes….cold hearted and cruel slogans profiting from a dead woman is inherently better than a war to free a country from a repressive regime. Yeah, that makes sense Goatherders. Lets showcase more insensitivity so we can get involved in more wars in the future. Go screw yourselves and your hypocritical ideology. Morons. Good thing I never wasted my money on their crap.
haha says:
Oct 19, 2010
Aye, profiting off a dead woman, and we’ll just casually ignore all of the women’s magazines centering around princess Di’s death for ten years after it.
derp.
Indeed says:
Oct 19, 2010
Aye nick, we’ll just casually ignore the fact that women’s magazines and the media in general profited massively off Princess Di’s death and still continue to do so on occasion when they’re feeling desperate enough to try.
They’re producing their shirts for profit, that’s true.
However people are getting offended by their shirts and focusing on them as if the shirts have absolutely any importance whatsoever.
So yes, war and politics ought to be paid more heed than T-shirts, and it seems that even the shirt designers agree.
Aye, the designers don’t seem to fully understand the implications of such war and politics, but that doesn’t really affect their industry.
So I suggest you save your outrage for later.
lala says:
Jan 14, 2011
If I see anyone wearing one of those princess Diana T-Shirts I’ll personally walk up to them and break their nose.
Of course the sad thing about the internet is it allows metally ill people to be seen and heard and its really sad.
She was a lovely woman who only did good and its not as if she was some stupid religion.
She was a just a nice person, who lived a fairy tale life.
American Apparel should stop supplying shirts to these people, it looks bad on them, but the guy is obviously mentally ill and probably and is so lost he thinks any attention is better than any.
A sad lost soul who is obviously unhappy with himself and the world he lives in.
Enjoy it you warped little man.