Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 17, 2019 14:24:45 GMT -8
I was in the grocery story yesterday and saw a chick wearing a t-shirt that said something like:
I don’t think that was the exact wording but that was the gist of it. Most t-shirts these days are reason for taking at least moderate offense. Surprisingly, this one wasn’t.
If this translates as “You must stay agitated, angry, and dissatisfied all the time and make the lives of the men in your life a living hell” then its a very bad message. But I interpreted it as “Don’t be a snowflake. Roll up your sleeves and get to work. Stop blaming others. If you want to fix things then take responsibility and do it.”
All of that would have a hard time fitting on a shirt, thus most shirt slogans are ambiguous or open to interpretation. But if looks aren’t deceiving, she seemed the type to fit the latter message. No offense, but if she had been 300 lbs. the message would have seemed incongruous. But she was not fat and seemed clean-cut and at least mildly suggestive of being other than a couch potato.
Thrifty. Hard-working. Self-responsible. Honest. Productive. Temperate. Generous. Fit. Direct. These are all qualities we can see as quintessentially American. Or they used to be. They don’t call it “Protestant work ethic” for nothing.
Socialism adds a slow and steady rot to these values. Let us hope we see more shirts like this and that they mean it and it's not just virtue-signaling. And maybe next time I’ll stop and ask the person where they got their shirt and maybe see where they’re coming from with it. But the dairy section just didn’t seem the right place to do so. That’s more of a produce-aisle thing.
If you’re comfortable you’re regressing.
I don’t think that was the exact wording but that was the gist of it. Most t-shirts these days are reason for taking at least moderate offense. Surprisingly, this one wasn’t.
If this translates as “You must stay agitated, angry, and dissatisfied all the time and make the lives of the men in your life a living hell” then its a very bad message. But I interpreted it as “Don’t be a snowflake. Roll up your sleeves and get to work. Stop blaming others. If you want to fix things then take responsibility and do it.”
All of that would have a hard time fitting on a shirt, thus most shirt slogans are ambiguous or open to interpretation. But if looks aren’t deceiving, she seemed the type to fit the latter message. No offense, but if she had been 300 lbs. the message would have seemed incongruous. But she was not fat and seemed clean-cut and at least mildly suggestive of being other than a couch potato.
Thrifty. Hard-working. Self-responsible. Honest. Productive. Temperate. Generous. Fit. Direct. These are all qualities we can see as quintessentially American. Or they used to be. They don’t call it “Protestant work ethic” for nothing.
Socialism adds a slow and steady rot to these values. Let us hope we see more shirts like this and that they mean it and it's not just virtue-signaling. And maybe next time I’ll stop and ask the person where they got their shirt and maybe see where they’re coming from with it. But the dairy section just didn’t seem the right place to do so. That’s more of a produce-aisle thing.
