Texas school bans football team’s insanely rapey T-shirts: ‘Shhhhhhh, just let it happen’: Supporters of a Texas high school football team are upset that players have been asked not to wear T-shirts that other students say appear to promote rape. ... Supporters argue the T-shirts, which were handed out to 40 senior players in August, promotes the powerhouse team’s intention to take away the ball from opponents or prevent them from gaining yardage. But [an] editorial written ... said the shirts — which show the team’s logo along with the phrase, We take what we want – could be perceived to have a dual meaning. The shirt’s main message is to state the player’s idea that there is no need for the opponent to put up a fight in letting our team take the ball away from them, said the editorial ... But can this saying be easily misunderstood? Yes. Though it certainly was not the goal of the shirt, its slogan connoted rape culture. ...* Variations on just let it happen have long been the punchline crude jokes about rape ... Shh, just let it happen is also an Internet meme, including The Rape Sloth ... rawstory/rs/2014/11/texas-school-bans-football-teams-insanely-rapey-t-shirts-shhhhhhh-just-let-it-happen/ *Personally, Im way less inclined to think it wasnt intentional. Shhhhh, just let it happen paired along with We take what we want? Yeah, right - that doesnt have a double meaning at all. :/ ~ Nancy
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:41:09 +0000
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