Are women allowed to teach or study? The T-shirt edition
September 12, 2011
(Women’s T-shirts released this month from Forever 21 and J. C. Penney)
ALLERGIC =TO= ALGEBRA
i ♥ school not …
SKOOL SUCKS
A+=amazing, B=brilliant, C=cool, D=delightful, F=fabulous
I’m too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it FOR ME
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BLT 
LOL, Theophrastus. I thought you were going to give us this tshirt or this one. Wow, sexism in the marketplace (not even the marketplace of ideas so much anymore). Sigh
(PS – Rachel Held Evans, a woman, said something instructive today. Listen up, men!)
I have to hope that the T-shirts Kurk pointed to were meant to be ironic (e.g., of the “I’m with stupid” variety.) At least they weren’t meant for children.
But these T-shirts are meant for children or adolescents.
You can read more in this Washington Post piece.
This is valuable evidence that complementarianism is not counter cultural but actually quite in tune with culture. Sexism is still a part of our culture. I think these T shirts sound just like Wayne Grudem who wrote about complementarianism,
“boys and girls both educated, but different preferences, abilities, and sense of calling respected.” Women’s preferences are complementary – if it is something that men think they are good at, then women need to back off, according to Grudem.
Ah, I see, this CBMW position is actually a step backwards from American schools segregated by race, which at least aspired to be “separate but equal.”