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(geez, target, it didn't occur to ANYBODY in your marketing department that this might be considered sexist and insulting??? you need a new marketing department)
Batgirl 'housework': Target removes 'sexist' T-shirt and apologises
You present a future where our daughters need to complete their home duties before they can go out and save the world, a woman posts on Facebook
The Batgirl T-shirt for sale on Target Australias website. What message are you intending on sending to young girls? a Facebook user asked. Photograph: Target
Target will remove a childrens T-shirt that suggests the duties of Batgirls include cleaning clothes and cars from its stores following complaints on social media. The $12 short-sleeved T-shirt for girls aged from two to seven years old features a Batgirl to-do list that reads: Dryclean cape. Wash Batmobile. Fight crime. Save the world.
A Facebook user from Northcote in Melbourne, who gave her name as Ninac Ollins, posted to Target Australias page late on Tuesday night to complain about what she perceived to be the sexist assumption that only Batgirls would do housework. Target, can you explain why you are selling something as offensive as this in your stores currently? What message are you intending on sending to young girls? Im insulted that you present a future where our daughters need to complete their home duties before they can go out and save the world. We know that working mothers still do more housework than their spouses, we dont need you to perpetuate this inequity.
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Target responded to Ollins post on Wednesday morning, thanking users for the feedback: It absolutely wasnt our intention to cause any offence with this shirt, so we really appreciate you all getting in touch with us to let us know your thoughts. Weve taken this feedback on board, and sincerely apologise for any disappointment caused. A spokeswoman confirmed to Guardian Australia on Wednesday afternoon that Target would pull the item from its stores.
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The equivalent T-shirt for boys sold by Target bears the slogan: Like father, like son
Yes my dads Batman. One Facebook user remarked: Assuming this is the boys version
Dad must have all that spare time to fight crime because Mums off doing the drycleaning!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/31/batgirl-housework-target-removes-sexist-t-shirt-and-apologises
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Men don't pick up dry cleaning?
Isn't washing the car a stereotypical male activity?
Seems a bit of an overreaction.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)You want Batgirl to go out in a nasty wrinkled cape? Or a filthy batmobile?
Don't you keep your tools used to SAVE THE WORLD in good shape? Internet SJW will be a thing of the past...someday
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Yup... pretty much every batman movie ever made has his costume in pristine condition and the batmobile looking as though it was just detailed.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)tritsofme
(17,378 posts)This "outrage" is incredibly silly.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Someone probably should make a t-shirt about it.
linuxman
(2,337 posts)Must be a slow news week in the wide world of "femenism".
Initech
(100,076 posts)melman
(7,681 posts)Seriously, this is just beyond stupid.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)cloudbase
(5,518 posts)to make Batman a sandwich.
karadax
(284 posts)She could have her housekeeper do it all.
Curse that Commissioner Gordon for teaching his daughter to do things on her own!
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,837 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I think it's funny and cute too. It could be used on a blue t-shirt for boys also.
Initech
(100,076 posts)Cant the boys wear the pink shirts too??? And can't the girls wear blue shirts too? Even our clothing is sexist! Why do even basic colors have to be separated by gender??? Rabble!!!
niyad
(113,315 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Where's a smilie for the rabble anyway?!
Initech
(100,076 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Not terribly funny, or inventive, or visually interesting.
No great loss.
niyad
(113,315 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)niyad
(113,315 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)who think a shirt constitutes gender-based oppression.
Whiners who were probably allowed to go to school, get a job, walk around in public without their husband or brother escorting them, and speak to whoever they want.
niyad
(113,315 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Because I seem to be having a difficult time understanding how a shirt that references a certain gender role is "all part of a piece" with mutilation designed to prevent a woman from experiencing pleasure.
niyad
(113,315 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)by people who've never actually experienced a day of serious sexism in their lives but still want to feel like they're being oppressed because it's the popular thing now?
melman
(7,681 posts)That is an outrageous thing to say. Just appalling.
niyad
(113,315 posts)frankieallen
(583 posts)Target is actually going to remove this from their stores?
niyad
(113,315 posts)frankieallen
(583 posts)I didn't see anything in there that changed my mind. I just think it's a petty complaint.
niyad
(113,315 posts)frankieallen
(583 posts)The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)Home duties? It's washing a cape and a batmobile. It's not cooking for your husband with your bare feet, then going to save the world. Maybe Batgirl doesn't even have a husband? Maybe she has to take care of all that shit by herself?
Plus if it's just a Batgirl, she probably can't be driving the Batmobile to go save the world anyway.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Gee, I'm glad all the actual problems of the world have been solved.
niyad
(113,315 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Honestly, if this t-shirt is what we have to worry about, then real problems must have all been stamped out.