This t-shirt is offensive, right?

[FrostyAndSlippery]

Saw someone wearing this today...

DH and I were to say the least. Even more so having seen the description on the above link.

Jeez.

I'm not overthinking this, am I? I'm not sure who it's more offensive to - obese people (of which I am one according to BMI) or anorexics.

I don't know, we (daughter who spent five months in anorexia unit and me) thought it was funny when we saw one. Good not to take things too seriously sometimes.

Obesity just the other side of the coin isn't it?

I dunno... I laughed. It's self mockery by the person wearing it, don't see how it's offensive to anorexics at all tbh.

I love the AD/HD and geek ones too.

so it just says I beat Anorexia.

I have no issues with that - and maybe Anorexia sufferers don't either.

Had it been

I beat Anorexia and on the back stated can't you tell or something that made a joke out of it then I may have been a little

Yeah, I get the self mockery thing... in that sense yes it is funny.

Hmm. I don't know - Maybe I am overthinking then but to me, it's making light of a fatal illness. IMO anyway.

The t-shirt alone is ok, the description on the website made me cringe though.

I'm not comfortable with it, but then I saw my (now estranged from me) step-sister suffer anorexia and know it's no joke. I'm not best placed to be objective, obviously.

I'm pretty damned sure she wouldn't find it funny.

I don't like it, don't think it's funny at all personally.

I wouldn't find it offensive although I can see that part of the humour is that it's meant to be slightly offensive/edgy but also self-mocking.
I see no problem with it.

I don't find it funny, but then I'm often beside myself with judginess wrt t-shirt slogans. The website even has an 'offensive' category
I mean what kind of twat would buy, then wear in public, a 'Sometimes No Means Yes' slogan.

ffs.

'Anorexia is a serious illness and many people die each year from it....there are also lots of big, fat ugly people in the world, these people have beaten the illness which we call anorexia. Celebrate obesity in style.'

not funny at all I reckon

Chatting to some friends I have through an eating disorder support site, none of them find it funny.

I think the intent behind it is the offensive part. If it was genuinely about beating anorexia then I'd actually like it, but it's obviously not aimed at that market.

Yes I agree absolutely kaloki - it's the intent that is the issue

I actually love this one and would very much like to buy it for my boss!

Interestingly they have the same tshirt in the women's tshirt section, without the description.

It's aimed at the obese and, aside from the offence to people suffering eating disorders, it must be nice to take charge of your own piss take. However there are many other expressions that would do just as well.

It's not the t shirt you find offensive but the description. The shirt just says "I beat Anorexia"

How can that be offensive? (bear in mind I am a recovering Anorexic)

The description is what has upet you.

Kaloki....but the intention is dependent upon the wearer.

I suppose it depends upon the level of your recovery though...and I DO have a pretty rough sense of humour...so I can understan those who find it too much.

But also the intent behind the store, if it was sold next to a tshirt like this one, you could guess what it was meant to be about.

Like I say, the tshirt alone doesn't offend me, but the description does. And if I saw someone wearing it I would guess it meant they'd bought it from a store like the above, and so knew it wasn't being worn in a "supportive of eating disorder sufferers" way.

But does it matter? I just don't know when or why we have developed the idea that we have any sort of right to not be offended.

i think the t-shirt is fine. i know two people who are very proud of themselves for beating anorexia and i know one of them would wear that to highlight the fact that anorexia is so common an is beatable.