As if we didn't need ANOTHER reason to hate Wal-Mart...

Funny?

But, in Wal-Mart's opinion, yes. They have recently begun to sell this shirt in their stores. A stalking survivor noticed the shirt and reported it to the NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence who contacted Wal-Mart. No response as of yet.
According to the woman who reported the shirt:

"People don't realize how serious stalking is," she said. "You 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"?

Bizarre. But maybe not so unexpected, considering that Wal-Mart once removed this shirt off it's shelves, deeming it too offensive and incompatible with the company values.

via Feministing

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I think I may have been the last person I know to know what a blog actually was. It was only after months of reading about debates regarding the legitimacy and worthiness of the tings that I finally asks someone what the word actually meant.
And now I am addicted.
Unless I am traveling or in the middle of a desert (i.e Burning Man), I read Feministing everyday. Sometimes, during a slow day at work i will cruise Metafilter or Boing Boing every hour, looking for some tidbit of information to make the day less painfully dull. Then I started linking to other pages and other pages and the web grew and grew.
And finally, I started a blog because I thought it would be un-feminist (not that people sans blogs are by any means, un-feminist, it was just a personal judgment) with all my resources and time, not to.
There are few outlets that allow people (at least those with the luxuries of computers and time) to comment publicly on sexist, racist or homophobic nonsense so often bypassed or ignored my mainstream or even "alternative" mediums.
So, for me, blogging can be a feminist practice and I intend to use it as such.