Another day, another casually transphobic product
http://www.complicity.co.uk/blog/2012/03/another-day-another-casually-transphobic-product/I don't know who found this first – it was all over twitter yesterday. It seems Urban Outfitters have joined the ranks of retailers using casual transphobia in their products with this greetings card, described by them as "charming". (Update at 1130, 19th March: The card appears to have been pulled. The link now shows just that the product has "sold out".)
In case it gets pulled down – I hope it does – here's the text:
Jack and Jill,
Went up the hill,
So Jack could see Jill's fanny,
But Jack got a shock,
And an eyeful of cock,
Because Jill was a closet ->-bleeped-<-.
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Urban Outfitters Under Fire for '->-bleeped-<-' Jack and Jill Greeting Card
Posted by Kevin Farrell on Mar 19, 2012
http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/03/19/urban-outfitters-under-fire-for-->-bleeped-<--jack-and-jill-greeting-card/All good gays know that Urban Outfitters has a long history of anti-gay business practices, and political donations. So while we'd all love to own a t-shirt memorializing Jesse Spano's "I'm so excited!" prescription drug abuse episode, we take our money elsewhere.
The latest in a laundry list of UO anti-LGBT missteps is a transphobic nursery rhyme greeting card for sale on the company's website, and one imagines in stores as well.
