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[PlayALLtheGames]

Twenty-one years ago, Ann Moliver Ruben designed a T-shirt with a simple empowering message: "Someday a woman will be PRESIDENT!"

A Walmart store in Florida quickly pulled it from its shelves, saying the shirt was "offensive" to some shoppers and apparently went against the chain's "family values."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/politics/woman-president-tshirt-trnd/index.html

21 years later, there are probably still quite a few people in the great state of Florida, and of course all around America, still shopping at Walmart, to whom a female president is offensive and against their "family values."

Sad!

 

[Sanjuro]

I would have been offended by that design as well.

Although, I've seen the type of t-shirts Wal-Mart sells so it is a moot point.

 

[BronsonLee]

One store pulled it over two decades ago you flop

 

[John Kowalski]

PC culture is getting out of hand.

 

[SpaceWolf]

What an odd t-shirt.

 

[BronsonLee]

And not only did Walmart put it back on sale after people asked for it, they sold it nationwide for a while

That's literally in the article you posted

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

To believe we're now only like 16 years away from our first female president, Ivanka Trump...

 

[PSqueak]

Maybe people were offended by how mindnumbingly boring Dennis the menace is.

 

[Hexa]

To believe we're now only like 16 years away from our first female president, Ivanka Trump...

Who's between Donald and Ivanka?

 

[Monocle]

To be fair, that art is somewhat offensive.

 

[Cyan]

That headline is just painful. CNN trying to go Buzzfeed?

 

[Gordon Shumway]

https://youtu.be/hUxPHJ36u0w

 

[Fat4all]

Walmart's "pop" t-shirt selection is so bad, I can't help but walk by them every time I go shopping.

"Oh look, its says 'kickin' it old school' and it has a picture of an NES controller... OK."

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Who's between Donald and Ivanka?

I assumed either Don Jr. gets first dibs or it swings back to the Democrats for President Kanye West...

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

And not only did Walmart put it back on sale after people asked for it, they sold it nationwide for a while

That's literally in the article you posted

Yeah, my point was more about people today who feel like that. I just thought the article was a good thing to connect to.

 

[spazchicken]

A woman president goes against family values?

 

[ItIsOkBro]

Walmart's "pop" t-shirt selection is so bad, I can't help but walk by them every time I go shopping.

"Oh look, its says 'kickin' it old school' and it has a picture of an NES controller... OK."

you bought 2 didn't you

 

[Ahasverus]

To believe we're now only like 16 years away from our first female president, Ivanka Trump...

Ivanka v Chelsea: Dawn of Injustice

 

[therealist]

A single store pulled the shirt 20 years ago, and then Walmart corporate brought it back. I mean it's a minor interesting tidbit but it really is a non-story.

 

[seat]

I guess we'll also conveniently forget that Hillary served as a director on the Walmart board for 6 years.

 

[Fat4all]

you bought 2 didn't you

that and the "Keep it 100" mesh tank-top.

 

[Hexa]

I assumed either Don Jr. gets first dibs or it swings back to the Democrats for President Kanye West...

Nah. Ivanka is the understood favorite in the family.

 

[Fury451]

It's almost like things progress in 21 years. Who knew?

 

[spazchicken]

A single store pulled the shirt 20 years ago, and then Walmart corporate brought it back. I mean it's a minor interesting tidbit but it really is a non-story.

Ok so a dude (manager) or a group of dudes (manager, regional manager and the assistant to the regional manager) did this. It wasn't a widespread company policy.

 

[Krixeus]

Who's between Donald and Ivanka?

Jeb Bush

Spoiler

Plz clap

 

[MrCunningham]

Isn't that a character from the Dennis the Menace comic strip? (the American one) I know I have seen that design somewhere before.

 

[NateDrake]

Isn't that a character from the Dennis the Menace comic strip? (the American one) I know I have seen that design somewhere before.

Yes.

 

[-Gozer-]

Isn't that a character from the Dennis the Menace comic strip? (the American one) I know I have seen that design somewhere before.

Yup.

Her name is Margaret.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

I guess the equivalent today would be, "Someday an LGBTQ person will be President!"

I'm sure there'd be more than a few people receiving that as a threat and infringing on Walmart's "family values".

 

[GunBR]

Isn't that a character from the Dennis the Menace comic strip? (the American one) I know I have seen that design somewhere before.

It's Margaret
I remember her from the cartoon

 

[UnemployedVillain]

21 years later, there are probably still quite a few people in the great state of Florida, and of course all around America, still shopping at Walmart, to whom a female president is offensive and against their "family values."

Sad!

I know it's sarcasm, but it still gets me every time

 

[Not]

I guess we'll also conveniently forget that Hillary served as a director on the Walmart board for 6 years.

Wow, always cool to read how incredibly accomplished she is. Where does she find the time?

Glad to see more Hillary supporters popping up on GAF

 

[Violence Jack]

Man, I haven't seen Maragret from Dennis the Menace in ages.

Wait, how is this against family values in 2016?