Philippines Department Store Is In Hot Water For Selling T-Shirts That Say "It's Not Rape, It's A Snuggle With A Struggle"

(Source) One of the Philippines’ largest department stores had been forced to remove a dangerously violent T-Shirt from it’s shelves after an international backlash.  SM Supermalls attracted worldwide attention when a shopper in one of it’s stores posted a snap of the garment online two days ago. Karen Kunawicz uploaded a picture of the T-shirt onto her Facebook page with the caption: ‘Really? In the boy’s section? ‘It’s Not Rape, It’s A Snuggle With A Struggle?’

SM – the same mall that has the daily angelus and refused to show Tim Burton’s “Sweeney Todd” in the cinemas? ‘Boys listen to Tita Karen–if a girl says NO and pushes you away, just err on the side of caution, she likely means NO. And go watch “Sweeney Todd.” She continued: ‘I count myself among those worked really hard especially in the 90’s for the rights of girls and women so it really got me upset.  ‘I was shaking when I took it. I wanted to throw up.’

Now obviously this shirt is stupid and shouldn’t be sold but can I ask a question? Does it still count as offensive if you sell a shirt in a foreign language? No one in America would sell this shirt, and rightfully so, but does it really matter when it’s the Philippines? A bunch of little Manny Pacquiao’s running around with rape shirts? They probably don’t even know what it says. They probably think it’s some cool American saying. If a tree falls in the woods does it make a sound? If a little asian kid wears a rape shirt that no one can read is it offensive? See what I’m getting at here. The only reason this became a thing was because an American saw it. For all you know English Rape shirts have been the go to style in the Philippines for years. If I’m the head of this department store I’m doing two things. 1) Not selling rape shirts anymore because that shirt fucking sucks and 2) Pulling a Sammy Sosa and pretending I don’t speak any English and had no idea what the shirt actually meant. Boom problem solved.

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