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You do realise the shirt was given to him by a female colleague/friend right?
by corford 11y ago
You do realise the shirt was given to him by a female colleague/friend right?
- ceejayoz 11y agoSo what? If a black friend gives me a shirt with the N-word on it, that doesn't mean I should wear it at work.
- corford 11y agoContext is key. I haven't followed this shirt brouhaha in any serious depth but I assume that all of his colleagues and management saw him wearing the shirt before he delivered his talk. AFAIK it became a problem afterwards. So, if you (not me) want to equate a shirt with female characters on it to a shirt with the N-word on it then, yes, if the workplace context was right why not wear it at work (e.g. I'm thinking an indie record label or similar environment with black, white, whatever people working together as a tight team and a black friend of a white guy bought him said t-shirt). Ultimately, it's up to the guy wearing the t-shirt to make a judgement call as to whether doing so would offend or not offend his friends and colleagues. So: context, relationship with everyone else at the place he works at, balanced sensitivity etc. If he honestly (not deliberately) makes the wrong call, he should apologise and everyone should move on. Work is a place for adults, not children on a lynching party.
- Chris2048 11y agoIf you're white, and your black friend gives you a shirt with the N-word on it, they aren't your friend.
- ceejayoz 11y agoThese guys are probably friends. http://realfunny.net/picture-3097-these-two-friends-wearing-my-nigga-and-my-redneck-shirts-better-not-get-separated-.html http://realfunny.net/picture-3097-these-two-friends-wearing-... They probably don't wear the shirts to work.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoIt was a friend, rather than a colleague, that made and gave him the shirt so they may well be unaware of how it would be percieved by his colleagues when worn in this context.
- gherkin0 11y ago> so they may well be unaware of how it would be percieved by his colleagues when worn in this context. Wasn't the controversy more about how the shirt was perceived by randos on twitter, not by his colleagues?
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoYes, rando astrophysicists on twitter: https://twitter.com/astrokatie/status/532509765989965824 https://twitter.com/astrokatie/status/532509765989965824
- gherkin0 11y agoWas that person his colleague?
- ainiriand 11y agoYou do realise that a woman can be wrong about women's rights, right?
- sp332 11y agoThis is an under-recognized point. Women can definitely undermine women's interests.