This fabric dingleberry offends me as a woman, a clothes buyer (looks ill-fitting), and a copy editor (what's with the hyphen blitzkrieg?).The fact that the sizes also come in Juniors and Youth-Fit (aka for boys) does little to quell the vomitorium gaining strength in my abdomen.
I do not believe in censorship. I do not believe in controlling language. I do not believe in blue-penciling people.
Having said all of that, let's no kid ourselves that this type of thing is not dangerous. It's easy to write a slogan like this if you haven't been the victim of date rape, or know someone who has. Just like it's easy to use a specific slur when it can never be directed at you.
Not to mention, the "Looking for 'date rape' products" link at the bottom of the Amazon page is really the cherry atop this preternaturally vile cake.
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