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Shirts That Go Hard

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I feel like the intent of the wearer can make this shirt work both in a pro-witchy-lesbian way or in a pro-churchgoer way.

Is this evidence I've missed the joke, or is that the joke?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't see how this is a pro-church sort of vibe. Nobody in the churches i grew up in would talk so openly about this sort of thing, and especially not in such a sarcastic manner.

Doubly so since it's a dude wearing it; if being trans is a sin, then joking about it sarcastically is definitely taboo.

I thought the joke was making fun of pat robertson's wild quote "the feminist agenda encourages women to kill their children, practice witchcraft, and become lesbians."

I read the shirt as "sorry missed church /s, i was too busy fucking around with things that are horrible for church-people to bother with it lmao".

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pat-robertson-feminist-agenda/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna guess the shirt is meant as an unironic "Checkmate atheists." Insular social groups tend to forget that the things that they care/feel strongly about might not even be on the collective radar of everyone else - print those things on a shirt and sometimes objective hilarity ensues because it opens the wearer up to outside interpretations that run counter to their intended meaning.

On the other hand, they could be a witchy lesbian, or be showing unironic support for their favorite witchy lesbian in their life. That would be cool, but I'm not betting on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A pro-churchgoer would never write "I" there. Absolutely never.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

“Sorry you missed church. You was busy practicing witchcraft and becoming a lesbian.”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I’ve had a bumper sticker on an old computer case from the 90s that says this lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Weren't we all...