It's no secret that corporate marketeers consider the young demographic to be a bunch of congenital idiots and that this stance has served them quite well. But Holy Shit, Urban Outfitters. A t-shirt that says "Voting is for Old People"? Okay, kids, here's how it works: Voting, reading, thinking, basically anything but partying and spending your parents' money is way uncool. You just go to sleep. Someone will wake you when the keg is tapped. Or when the planes hit, whichever comes first.
I'm normally a non-violent person, but the first mall rat I see wearing one of these t-shirts is going to learn that getting your ass viciously beaten is for young people.
this...on the heels of the Ghettopoly debacle? Now I'm starting to wonder who the fuck owns that chain. I smell GOP ties. I mean, who else has a vested interest in making abject poverty a 'fun game' and suggest voting (by young, overwhelmingly Democratic voters) is for lame-ass geezers?
What's next? A line of "National Healthcare is for Sick-o's" bath products? This spring will we see UO use ad campaigns like "Shoes: The only thing a woman should have the right to choose." ?
You smell them because they're there, and they stink. The Chairman of the Board of UO is a Republican contributor.
Posted by: monk at 03.03.04 11:16I knew it. Bastards.
Posted by: antigeist at 03.03.04 11:59oh, I forgot the part where I say...and we must stop them!
Partially because some of the glitter off my UO "AIDS is a curse from God" t-shirt got in my eye.
Posted by: antigeist at 03.03.04 23:01