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Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers!

ewingd at omrf ewingd at omrf
Tue Sep 26 09:55:53 EST 1995


In article...> 
> 
>>>> report from Miami, Florida saying that a Wal-Mart store had yanked
> T-shirts from it's shelves after one customer complained the shirts were
> "offensive."  The shirts bore the character of Margaret from the cartoon
> strip "Dennis the Menace" saying "Someday a woman will be president."<<<
>>snip<
>>>>Later the same morning, CNN reported the designer of the shirt had
> intended for it to boost the confidance and self-esteem of young girls,
> but Wal-Mart had found it to be against it's stated commitment to "family
> values."<<<
> 


> Every time I hear the phrase "family values" I want to ask "_Whose_
> family." Certainly, one of my family's values is that women can do
> anything, be anything they choose. 
> 
> I think I hear a boycott coming...
> 
>
Shouldn't that be girlcott??? ;)


ewing  ...stranger than fiction



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