Parents Think THAT Tee Shirt is Offensive?

Don't you just love MSN Homepage? So many interesting things to read and discuss with your hubby and friends! It is also a good place to find fodder for articles. Once you can stop the hysterical laughing that ensues, that is.

This morning was one of those mornings. Poor JC Penney took a big hit with parents. A big enough hit to make them remove an entire line of clothing! Granted, that line of clothing was only tee shirts and only teenage girls tee shirts at that, still...

I love JC Penney. It is the only credit card I still dream of holding in my hand again. No, really. I still have an application for one in my underwear drawer! Every now and then, when I am feeling really sad, I will take it into the bathroom, shut the door and run my finger along the lines as I read every word. Sigh, sniffle, blow my nose.

But I will not fill it out.

It is still blank.

To fill it out would be a disaster.

Because I react to that store as I do to Moolinium Crunch Ice Cream.

Right.

Gone, baby, so gone.

When  I think of all the tee shirts I have worn my mind tries to warp. When I think of all the ones I have worn with logos, my mind goes into meltdown. I got to the point in time where the only place I wore certain tee shirts was to sleep. That was a stepping stone of time! Now the only tee shirts I pay any attention to are the ones in my zazzle shop and really, mugs and magnets are much more fun, don't you think?

I don't think I ever had a tee shirt that got my parents so upset they didn't want me to wear it. Well, there was the tye dye one that had "Down With Established Morality" on it in magic marker but like I told my Dad, it was probably on the shirt BEFORE I tye dyed it...probably. Daddy stumped me, though with "What exactly does that mean, Boo?"

The parents curse came home with a vengence though on that one.

(Do you love cliche's? I do. I have to use them all up in one place sometimes, just to get rid of the urge to use them. Otherwise, my stuff would be peppered with them all the time! This way is better, all stuck in one place like partridges in pear trees.)

When our daughter was a teenager the band, and I use that term loosely, she adored was Marylyn Manson.

I know. Really, I assure you there isn't anything you can say that we didn't say first and much louder! We tried to give her good rock and roll. Her Dad took her to see Tool in concert and an outside one to boot. Well, Tool usually does outdoor venues anyway but you get the idea. She loved that but she still wore her favorite tee shirt to see Maynard.

I hate that shirt. When she came home with it, bought it with her own money, I read it and burst into tears. Bless her heart, she was not so teenaged jaded at that time that she ignored my distress. She hugged me and comforted me but still ended up looking puzzled and said "But, Mom, it doesn't have anything to do with me loving you!" She was so teenage jaded though that she continued to wear it!

Want to know what it said? OK, let me see if I can get through this without bawling...

The tee shirt is overlarge and black, like, duh, is there any other kind of tee shirt for a teenager to wear? And there is a picture of Manson, may he burn...sorry, carried away, on the front. On the back is one sentence.

"This is the world in which we grow and in which we will grow to hate you."