Thank you. I've edited it as such, adding my own touches:
Dear Customer Service Team:
Your company makes funny shirts, most of the time, and I've bought several of them in the past. However, I'm struggling to understand how exactly the "No means No - well maybe if I'm drunk" t-shirt made it to release.
Given some statistics for the USA say 25% of women will *report* rape or sexual assault at some point in their lives - and we can probably assume more aren't reporting it. I'm one of those women - I was sexually assaulted at age 16, by someone who slipped a drug into the Coca-Cola I was drinking when I wasn't looking. I can only imagine that members of your own staff have had this happen.
And of that subset of your staff who have had rape in their life, and of the subset of those women - or men - who reported it to the police and went through the legal system, how many of those people do you think might have been accused in court of wanting it, asking for it, causing their own rape?
How many rape cases do you think get at least partially decided because juries and judges still seem to somehow think that alcohol reduces a woman's right to not be raped? How many rapes do you think occur because the rapists somehow picked up this idea?
How many more do you think might happen with your t-shirt telling people that maybe a woman's just joking when she says no, that with every drink a woman has she is voluntarily and knowingly signing away her right to not be raped? I can only imagine.
I really hope you change your mind on this t-shirt. It isn't cool. It isn't funny, and because of it, I will no longer be buying any products from your company, and will encourage others to do the same. Please don't contribute to the rape culture in this country.
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Dear Customer Service Team:
Your company makes funny shirts, most of the time, and I've bought several of them in the past. However, I'm struggling to understand how exactly the "No means No - well maybe if I'm drunk" t-shirt made it to release.
Given some statistics for the USA say 25% of women will *report* rape or sexual assault at some point in their lives - and we can probably assume more aren't reporting it. I'm one of those women - I was sexually assaulted at age 16, by someone who slipped a drug into the Coca-Cola I was drinking when I wasn't looking. I can only imagine that members of your own staff have had this happen.
And of that subset of your staff who have had rape in their life, and of the subset of those women - or men - who reported it to the police and went through the legal system, how many of those people do you think might have been accused in court of wanting it, asking for it, causing their own rape?
How many rape cases do you think get at least partially decided because juries and judges still seem to somehow think that alcohol reduces a woman's right to not be raped? How many rapes do you think occur because the rapists somehow picked up this idea?
How many more do you think might happen with your t-shirt telling people that maybe a woman's just joking when she says no, that with every drink a woman has she is voluntarily and knowingly signing away her right to not be raped? I can only imagine.
I really hope you change your mind on this t-shirt. It isn't cool. It isn't funny, and because of it, I will no longer be buying any products from your company, and will encourage others to do the same. Please don't contribute to the rape culture in this country.
Regards,