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Feminist T-shirts you can usefully wear in Tesco

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Cwenthryth · 19/10/2021 19:59

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I’ve not generally been a slogan t-shirt wearer, but it turns out post Covid my off-duty style is evolving to be a lot more relaxed than it used to be! So I’ll now happily be in whatever comfywear whilst doing the shopping etc. I was thinking about the daily acts of feminism and planting seeds of ideas thing and thinking that wearing T-shirts with a thought-provoking feminist message on is a useful thing to do whilst shopping; if people see the message and they find it intriguing they may go away and find out more. Nothing offensive (not counting claimed offence at gender critical belief itself).

The feminist tshirts that I have aren’t really suitable - they are either just celebratory slogans (like courage calls to courage, I incite this meeting etc) or you have to be already in the know to get the relevance, like BirdyRose designs (my favourite Magdalen one is too sweary for polite company as well).

Has anyone got any feminist slogan apparel that would fit these criteria? Thought provoking for observers, not sweary, makes the point clearly?

Hope this all makes sense

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Justtryingtobehelpful · 22/10/2021 17:36

*cis not cuz ☺️

Justtryingtobehelpful · 22/10/2021 17:36

I have Cis, My Arse one from wild womyn Workshop. People read it then lean in to read the small print of 'Biology is not bigotry' and 'woman is not an identity'
They look confused then ask me what cuz means. I tell them it means Non-trans as per the definition on stonewall's website,😂
They look annoyed as they realise it places trans as the default and them on the side.
Then I move on to explaining how it a man identifies as a women as per their feelings, they are a woman. Cue their response of that's ridiculous. Yes, I reply, it's just biology not bigotry. Then, they want to finish the conversation...... A slow peaking as they don't want to think too much about it...... Too fast.....

FemaleMule · 22/10/2021 17:36

Shein has quite a lot of good dinosaur t-shirts (and even dungarees!) at the moment!

Thighdentitycrisis · 22/10/2021 16:52

@HighNetGirth
Your slogan is the best I’ve heard so far!

Also love "Help! She's thinking thoughts I don't like." @AlkasaurusHex mentioned- I might wear that one

Letterasaurus · 22/10/2021 08:33

This has artist Artemisia Gentileschi's quote 'I will show you what a woman can do'

www.nationalgallery.co.uk/products/artemisia-t-shirt/p_TS-ARTEMISIA-NAVY

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 21/10/2021 17:15

#BeKind?

#SmileOnDemand?

I'd rather vent the full force of my righteous wrath

(I acknowledge that I don't have T-shirt slogan skills.)

SlamLikeAGuitar · 21/10/2021 17:02

I work in a pub, and bought a tshirt from thespark.company/collections/feminist-apparel?page=5 the other day specifically for work Grin It’s black with plain white lettering and simply reads “don’t tell me to smile”.
I was tempted by another one from a company on Instagram that reads “Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man” but thought that one was a bit much for work Blush

TreXX · 21/10/2021 16:45

@SpindelWhorl

Literal Violets #ManFriday

are great.

DP bought a Literal Violets tee-shirt because he doesn't give a fuck (well he does, but about me and his daughters and my daughter and other people's daughters) and I didn't get one because I want to design my own which of course I'll never get round to ...

I keep meaning to make one with a fancy 'Be Furious' design on it.. a riff on the 'be kind' t-shirts for girls...

But I also won't get around to it...!!

Maybe a TreXX would be cool too.

HighNetGirth · 21/10/2021 16:21

I do charge a royalty fee, sleepyshiftworker.

SpindelWhorl · 21/10/2021 00:49

Literal Violets
#ManFriday

are great.

DP bought a Literal Violets tee-shirt because he doesn't give a fuck (well he does, but about me and his daughters and my daughter and other people's daughters) and I didn't get one because I want to design my own which of course I'll never get round to ...

Justilou1 · 20/10/2021 22:37

Here are two Aussie sites but their T-shirts are brilliant. I have these shirts myself.
The first lot are from
https:/
And the second set are from

www.charmoffensivetees.com.au/

thespark.company/collections/feminist-t-shirts?page=2

Feminist T-shirts you can usefully wear in Tesco
Feminist T-shirts you can usefully wear in Tesco
Couchbettato · 20/10/2021 22:20

@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal

My favourite says:

"We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren't able to burn."

I've also got one that I wear to auditions that says: "Strong Female Lead", just to make sure they notice. Grin

Ooft, we are the granddaughters of witches you weren't able to burn. I heard this on a Button Poetry video or something very similar and it resonated with me so hard.
Terfydactyl · 20/10/2021 20:41

No Ys in our Xs

Fabulous, love it. Gonna get it printed on a t or bag real soon.

sleepyshiftworker · 20/10/2021 20:35

@HighNetGirth

I've always thought that "love cock, hate patriarchy" would be a good slogan, but then I am very vulgar.
Oh wow I'm having this printed. I want this. Never a more true statement would adorn my body.
Gingercake2018 · 20/10/2021 18:57

Redbubble sell face masks in suffragette colours (if you're in an area still using masks or if England goes back to mask wearing).

WallaceinAnderland · 20/10/2021 18:52

[quote UnfinishedBunting]@WallaceinAnderland, can you possibly explain 'No wise in our excess'? Thanks![/quote]
No Ys in our Xs

UnfinishedBunting · 20/10/2021 18:41

@WallaceinAnderland, can you possibly explain 'No wise in our excess'? Thanks!

Followtheyellowsicktoad · 20/10/2021 18:40

I’m swithering about getting “A Woman’s Place is on top” t-shirt. They were sold to fund the first all woman’s expedition to summit Annapurna (10th highest peak in the world). After the successful summit they funded female climbers who didn’t get the same opportunities to climb as men. This was criticised for excluding funding to the best climbers- men.

Im not a climber, but I like the t-shirt.

www.arleneblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Annapurna-t-shirts-2-1.jpg

Skade · 20/10/2021 18:22

@Mollyollydolly

I love the 'this witch doesn't burn' one.
Thanks Molly, you've just reminded me to order this one! Smile
Wigglegiggle0520 · 20/10/2021 18:14

@SusannaRowan @GAHgamel

Thanks for the explanation!

WallaceinAnderland · 20/10/2021 17:57

How about 'No wise in our excess'

Cwenthryth · 20/10/2021 17:19

@HighNetGirth

I've always thought that "love cock, hate patriarchy" would be a good slogan, but then I am very vulgar.
I would probably wear this. But not in Tesco Grin
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HighNetGirth · 20/10/2021 17:09

I've always thought that "love cock, hate patriarchy" would be a good slogan, but then I am very vulgar.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 20/10/2021 17:05

Oops, got caught by the asterisks (painful...)

Last line could be:

To which women eternally shout back: &&&& off!

ifIwerenotanandroid · 20/10/2021 17:02

@Cwenthryth

Btw complete tangent on the dinosaur thing but this was fucking hilarious, (highlighted on Twitter by our very own *@RhymesWithOrange ) apparently us stoopid t*fs are using “trans dinosaurs” (ha!) as our secret signal, because the person that requested dinosaur emojis had Thoughts when they did so 😂
The opposition have tried to stop us using anything we come up with - to no avail, but they keep on trying.

They didn't like us having the genderfree/checkered flag (YOU CAN'T BE GENDERFREE! YOU'RE CIS! YOU CAN'T JUST DECLARE YOURSELF TRANS!)

They didn't like us using the 'STOP' red card/square (Hey guys, everyone put a red square in their name! All the **s do it & that'll confuse them!)

They didn't like us using Suffragette colours (That's the XYZ flag, stop appropriating! Suffragettes wanted rights for everyone, not just women - they'd be ashamed of you! Trans people got women their rights! etc)

Now they don't like us using David Lammy's words with humour (It's a trans dinsoaur! If you put it in your name that means you support trans! - seen on twitter several times this very day before I gave up with a sigh & a sore BLOCK finger)

It seems to amount to: Women! Shut up!

To which women eternally shout back: off!

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