To think this t-shirt is ill-advised?

[SinkGirl]

Spotted in Tesco.

Hasn’t this character’s weird stalking already been widely criticised?

That's me told.

Serious case of ‘overthinking’ it

£18 for a T-shirt - can’t see the issue with that either. Just how cheap do you want clothing to be?

If my DH's best mate turned up at my door holding signs that he'd made like that, I'd call it harassment.

Really? I'd call it harassment if he repeatedly did so or behaved in a way that I'd told him not to, but as a one-off (and the fact she was oblivious to his feelings prior to the video suggests he's hardly been harassing her up to this point - in fact he's actually been ignoring her up till then) I'd think it was inappropriate and a bit weird but I wouldn't feel harassed unless he then persisted when I'd made it clear I wasn't interested. I guess we're all different though! (I'd also tell my DH though!)

Cellebelly - thank you! This is what I was trying to get at, but you said it much better than I did.

@adaline

Okay fine, even if it’s just creepy weird and not stalkerish behaviour, it’s not something I’d suggest memorialising on a t shirt.

Offended by everything? No.

Maybe you’ll agree when Lincoln himself calls the character a “creepy stalker”
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/04/love-actually-andrew-lincoln-stalker

The whole plot line is hideous.

I think there are far more problematic storylines than that one in Love Actually (Colin Firth's for example is very dodgy, and Hugh Grant's isn't great either). But damn if I don't love that film anyway. It's like when you go back and look at Friends with a more modern eye, you can see all the problems with it –but I still love to watch it anyway, even though a lot of references and storylines would be considered definite no-gos now.

It'll be bought by the same type of person that thinks Every Breath You Take by the Police is a love song.
Not for me

Booooo to comparing Friend’s dated jokes that have aged poorly to a guy that was ALWAYS a creepy stalker. Stalker door guy was always a problem.

It’s not that he’s a creepy stalker that bothers me - it’s the way it’s romanticised (and I agree, quite a few of those storylines are awful in one way or another yet painted as romantic). There is absolutely nothing romantic about that story line although Curtis certainly tries to frame it that way.

And the fact that it’s considered so romantic it’s worthy of plastering on a bloody (£18) t shirt. Maybe it’s pyjamas actually, which would be better (since it slightly explains the price and nobody would see you wearing it 🤷‍♀️)