Word: shirtful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...depriving society of the ability to better understand the truth. This pitfall loomed large on Tuesday, when the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) and other student groups took action to stop the sale of the “Yale Sucks, Jeter Swallows” T-shirt sold by Satire...
...student body used to Harvard-Yale T-shirts with bulldogs fellating a pilgrim, the outrage BGLTSA expressed over this particular shirt came to us as a surprise. While saying “Yale Sucks” does seem to stigmatize the actions of homosexual males and heterosexual females, the graphic and anthropomorphic representation thereof would seem to be even more offensive. Yet there has been no outrage over Harvard-Yale T-shirts until now. Why? Perhaps because in the past students recognized that these shirts are made without malicious intent (the shirt in question was sold by a humor magazine...
BGLTSA is behind some extremely important accomplishments on campus. Last year, its campaign to create ungendered bathrooms for transgender students brought an important issue to the fore that the University had not properly addressed. That said, trying to shut down Satire V’s T-shirt sale goes too far. It’s just plain over-sensitivity. These shirts weren’t meant to be demeaning, and, in the parlance of pop culture where “swallows” is quickly becoming as commonplace as “sucks,” they aren?...
...Surely many students believed Harvard Right-to-Life’s flag display last year was obscene. Had any of these students succeeded in disrupting these exercises of free speech, public outcry would rightfully have been tremendous. In successfully censoring Satire V’s T-shirt, BGLTSA is taking advantage of a double-standard in what it is politically correct to be politically correct about to impose the views of a small subset of the Harvard population on the entire student body. It is using the “anti-gay” label to scare Satire V into...
...most of all, you feel the t-shirt bearing Hideki Matsui’s name and number bleeding you underneath your jacket, burning, making you wonder what would happen if you just shed your coat before everyone and reminded them that a pennant does not a World Champion make. That you, of course, a Yankee fan, should know...