To have told this man his t shirt was offensive?

[CundtBake]

I have to say in general I think slogan tees are wanky on adults.

Anyway on the train today a man was standing there with a t shirt that said something along the lines of: the daily mail - like being in a mental hospital for 20 minutes.

He caught me reading it and chuckled. I said I didn't think it was funny I thought it was offensive.

I've been sectioned myself and I'll be damned if I ever read the daily mail or share it's ridiculous views.

AIBU to think if you really feel the need to share your newspaper related views via your t shirt you should keep the mentally ill and any other vulnerable person out of it?

I wasn't going to randomly tell him what I thought until he looked at me and started chuckling clearly pleased with himself at how hilarious and clever he is.

Yes daily mail bashing is a good thing imo. But this is bashing it by comparing it to a 'mental hospital' therefore stating that there is something bad about mentally ill people so cancels itself out I think.

He chuckled, which implied he thought he was sharing a joke with you so you YWNBU to tell him you thought it was offensive, not that you were looking because you thought it was funny.

Had you ranted at him that would have been unreasonable because, as others stated, he obviously doesn't find it offensive and doesn't care that you think it is.

It would have been better to have...

'The Daily Mail - like being in a cess pit for 20 mins'

Its an objectionable statement,but nonetheless id not strike up conversation on it
But i agree with your sentiments that it is objectionable slogan

I saw a wanker man wearing one today.

Now, I'm totally unshockable, unoffendable.

'Immigrants are like sperm. Millions get in, but only one works'.

I had to drag my jaw off the pavement.

And fwiw, I'm 'mental' (I have bipolar) and I'm not bothered about the whole mental hospital terminology.

I'm mental and proud

Someone that DH knows in a round about sort of way wears a t shirt that says 'dead girls don't say no'
DH thinks he is an arsehole and to be avoided ( so do I)

Wow, that is something. I can see why your jaw hit the floor - nice guy.

And another example of why I probably wouldn't bother saying anything (even though the sentiment is detestable) - someone stupid enough to think wearing that is ok is just never going to change their behaviour from listening to me.

In a way, t-shirts like this are a useful public service - they allow the dickheads to self-select and advertise their gross little inner thoughts so we don't have to waste time speaking to them (or god forbid, going out with one). It's like intellectual traffic lights - that one says STOP, stay away from this prat.

Do we make jokes about cancer wards? No we don't. Why not? I can't think of an answer to that that doesn't also apply to psychiatric hospitals.

I spend 40-50 hours a week in a "mental hospital" which, despite involving dealing with some very distressed people, I usually find to be a rewarding, interesting experience. I've had to install the Tea and Kittens DM blocker on my laptop because I'm pushed to spend 40-50 seconds on the DM website without wanting to throw things.

There are lots of entertaining things in the world- we're not so short of humour that we have to laugh at things that perpetuate the stigma of horrible illnesses and put people off accessing the treatment that can help them.

It's a shit Tshirt. It says that the wearer is a Wally.

This morning I spotted a (roughly) 12 yo girl wearing a 'if you think I'm a bitch, you should meet my mum' .. she was shopping with her mum.in tesco. I felt so sorry for her mum and a bit disgusted at such lack of respect for both herself and get parent.

Everything is offensive to somebody, people are still allowed to wear joke slogan tshirts even though it insults you just as you are entitled not to cover yourself head to toe so as not to offend the overly religious. How would you feel if someone lectured you on your clothing? I doubt you'd care to change for them, you'd just think they were an interfering nut.

Yabu

I wouldn't feel sorry for her mum, I'd feel sorry for the child. I would expect at 12 her mother has bought the top for her because she herself finds it amusing

YANBU.
It's vile to poke fun at the mentally ill.
I don't accept the 'everything offends somebody' argument. Does that mean we should never speak out about the offensiveness of racism/ homophobia etc?

I don't understand that bluebell.

Wearing average clothing is not placing a dumb ass joke in the face of those walking around minding their own business. So no, not the same as potentially offending the uber religious at all.

If you walk down a high street and are likely to be offended by skirts above the knee then you are placing yourself in that situation.
If you walk down the street and come across someone wearing a big penis t-shirt that is hardly something one would anticipate so more open to criticism - surely?

..autocorrect strikes again.

He sounds like the type of arsehole man who only equates mental illness with psychiatric ward stereotypes.....

Which means he probably now thinks you found his t-shirt offensive because you are a Daily Mail Reader!!!!

coola

No I'm not 12, I'm just not easily offended.

I saw a man today at a day out with Thomas event (with his kids) wearing a tshirt that said 'its my monkey and I'll spank it as fast as I like'. I'm guessing his kids cant read but it just felt totally out of place. Admit I did get a bit judgy!

I quite like some 'hilarious' tshirts (I have the 'I'm the one the Daily Mail warned you about' tshirt which is no doubt offensive to some) but the top the OP saw isnt to my taste.

My friend who is from the American South once pulled a girl up on wearing an Abercrombie and Fitch tshirt with a confederate flag on it. The girl didn't know what it was

Perhaps more shockingly, we went to a National Trust cafe and there was a man whose tshirt had a woman wearing only a thong, looking over her shoulder at the viewer, saying "play with me". At a National Trust cafe

I think lighten up too. I have been sectioned too, but I agree with the t-shirt.