Now being sold at Walmart. These shirts, marketed at teens and young adults, are clearly sending the message that stalking isn't dangerous, but is instead proof of love. But far from simply not wanting to be apart, stalking can be terrifying and haunting for its victims. A stalking victim quoted in the above article had this to say:
"People don't realize how serious stalking is," she said. "YouAs of today, we have found no indication that Walmart has taken the shirts off the racks, even after numerous complaints have been filed. If you are as outraged as we are, feel free to give the Walmart Corporate Headquarters a call or an email to let them know what you think.
constantly live in fear, look over your shoulder and suffer from psychological
and physical symptoms due to the stress of the stalker."
She wondered aloud: What's next? "Some say it's rape, I call it hot sex"? Or: "Some call it domestic violence, I say I'm just teaching her a lesson"?
4 comments:
I wrote a letter to Walmart about this shirt; and if I had any faith in Walmart I'd think that a real person might actually read it. Capitalizing off of "jokes" about stalking is ridiculous. Of course, Walmart is known for having the largest class action suit for gender discrimination so can we say that we are exactly surprised? Nonetheless, we are outraged.
Great post. Amazingly (or rather, not so amazingly) this shirt is being sold under countless designs by numerous nearly anonymous internet shirt dealers. An amazon seller, EShirt has it, as do plenty of cafepress and independent sellers.
im so buying it.
love is good
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