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Remove "Team Player" Shirt from Condom World Boston

Remove "Team Player" Shirt from Condom World Boston

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Started by Ami Pienknagura 11 years, 9 months ago
Hi Friends!


There is a shirt on display at Condom World in Boston with the text "Team Player" on it with the image of a thin man holding the hand of a larger woman.


The shirt promotes fat-shaming at it's most fundamental level. The shirt communicates that only a man who is "taking one for the team" would engage in any relations with a woman who has fat on her. This conveys that, a) No man could or should be attracted to a woman who isn't thin, b) There is no reason a man should even be seen holding hands with a woman who isn't thin, unless he is doing so out of pity for this woman or some other reason that is disrespectful of the humanity of the woman, c) It is shameful to be with a woman who isn't thin, and many other repulsive messages.


Condom World claims to be"Boston's most convenient and reliable source for high-quality, sex-positive products, information, and customer service."


(Source: Condom World Boston's Facebook page, the "Overview" section.https://www.facebook.com/CondomWorldBoston/info?tab=overview)


Sex positivity and fat-shaming cannot coexist. In order for Condom World to show respect to their customers of all body types, we ask that they remove this shirt from their window display and hopefully from their inventory completely.


Please sign this petition to support body positivity and sex positivity! A kinder world is attainable, one voice at a time.

Updates

December 15, 2014

Seeing the momentum behind this has been exhausting but it keeps me moving forward. I am drained by the resistance we face yet I truly believe we can compel them to finally take this down.

22 Comments

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Jason toby
11 years ago Featured

Completely agree- this kind of shirt only propagates fat-shaming to subtly affect our subconscious views and influence our culture. Condom world has a responsibility to sell items with a positive message, not portraying a group of people as lesser or something that one would need to be a 'team player' for.

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Luisa Ramirez
11 years ago Featured

This is one of the ickiest things I have read all week, and I've read a lot. You can't claim to be sex positive and promote such a fat-shaming, misogynistic, body negative shit. Please remove it (and the ideas behind it) forever.

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Helen
11 years ago Featured

This is a disgusting shirt and promotes violently misogynistic and fat-shaming ideologies

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Julianna T Fialkowksi
11 years ago Featured

Not cool! There are no excuses for products that promote hate, misunderstanding, or shame.

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Ariela
11 years ago Featured

Please do not encourage fat-shaming by selling anything with such a disgraceful message.

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Beauman Edwards
11 years ago Featured

I believe they have a right to sell whatever they can, but that doesn't mean what they're doing is 'right'

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Donald Arndt
11 years ago

Pleas remove

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Ian Henry
11 years ago

All I can say is wow.