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Oh I came late to the party, but I just can't resist coming out of the lurk for this...
It's a fucking awful t-shirt. In design, implementation and meaning.
It's always fun when people make 'oh so controversial' statements to play 'the replacement game' - swapping out the perjorative identifier for another perjorative identifier of a different minority/group exposed to intolerance.
'Gears R 4 Women' is a bit playschool, but might still get laughed at by the lad mag readers, but what about 'Gears R 4 Ni*rs' or 'Gears are for Pas'?
Why is it funny to wear a t-shirt continuing the mockery and intolerance of a group of people who make you feel a bit odd (or maybe don't even do that, but you're too fucking lax to even bother having an opinion or slogan that doesn't reflect the mass opinion..)
Why is it considered 'politically incorrect' (by which we are to assume the author means 'well shocking and totally gonne get uptight people all annoyed, innit!') to just spout the slogans, fears and damned stupidity of the majority, like some river that can't help but carry the shit, rusty trolley and other sediment downstream and dump it wherever it goes?
Why the fuck would you go through the time and effort to make a t-shirt that spouts the same shit as Everybody Else (i.e. Chris fucking Moyles), and wear it as a joke instead of using that time and effort to come up with an original statement? If you really wanted to try hard, you could make some positive kind of statement ('I'm all for Queers!', perhaps?). Otherwise, you could at least try to make something pretty. God knows there's already enough ugly, damaging shit in this world without another non-thinking fucker adding to it while trying to be funny.
Also, fixed gear bikes HAVE A FUCKING GEAR. YOUR T-SHIRT MAKES NO SENSE UNLESS YOU RIDE A PENNY FARTHING.
Fucking awful t-shirt.
And you drew the gears wrong. Muppet.