Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Later, at an Iowa senior center, Obama made good on that promise. Alluding to Clinton's "Ready to Lead" slogan, he told an audience of about 75 people, "On issues as fundamental as how to protect Social Security, a candidate for President owes it to the American people to tell us where they stand. Because you're not ready to lead if you can't tell us where you're going...
...Nazir Ahmad Baloch woke up early, pinned a button of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) to his shirt and danced out the door chanting "Long Live Bhutto." "He was crazy," says his aunt, Anipa Banno. "The party never did anything for him, but he believed in their slogan, 'Bread, Shelter and Clothes.' He was a party diehard." Bhutto had fled Pakistan when her father, former President and Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was toppled in a military coup and later executed. But she went back to pick up her father's mantle as head...
...shirt slogan is offensive, because it undermines the important ideal of gender equality in the business world, as do many facets of WIB itself—the very idea that a support group for aspiring businesswomen is necessary suggests that a person’s gender might play a part in how well she performs on the job. Likewise, in the case of this t-shirt, by suggesting that women make better CEOs, WIB is opening up the door for judgment on the basis of gender. This is exactly the sort of mistake forward-thinking social activists have been working...
...seems to implicitly suggest that women “make better” CEOs than men do, which ties into the larger problem of linking professional fitness to gender. Perhaps WIB members did not intend this nuance, but then, they should have thought a bit more deeply about their slogan when they sent this t-shirt design to print...
...Despite the fact that I contacted several WIB members for comment on the t-shirt slogan, none were willing to speak to me on the record. We can only speculate, then, as to what would motivate this group to pick such an atrocious motto...