Oh, boy! You just had a visit paid to you by your trusted mail provider! I wonder what wonderful surprise awaits you within the package you just received? Where you drunk shopping on the Internet last weekend at one o'clock in the morning? You unwrap your package to discover that you have ordered some funny t-shirts. Wasting no time, you decide it is the perfect moment to put one of these t-shirt gems over your torso and greet the day. You first order of business is to pick up some fresh food at the old Farmer's Mart. Let's brighten up those old fogies day with some funny t-shirt goodness.
That seemed like a great plan until you actually arrived and left the safety of your vehicle. Once you walked up to the fruit and veggie stand you popped your chest out so that everyone could read your funny t-shirt in order to join you for a laugh. Well, that's not what is happening. What's happening is that you are being yelled at by an old farmer lady and being chased back to your car. Something has gone wonderfully wrong. You have offended everyone with one of your funny t-shirts. I wonder what could have happened?
You may have the greatest taste in funny t-shirts in the whole wide world, but that will do you no good if you don't have the right audience to laugh at your wearable joke. There is a huge divide that separates the newest generation coming of age, and the eldest three generations. That divide is the unknowable gulf called the "Internet". Young people have grown up with information right at their fingertips, both good and bad. Blood, guts, cursing, and nudity helped raised our children into young adults. Now, there is no image left that could intimidate or offend for them while the older generations only use the Internet to check their AOL mail and their Ebay accounts.
You may not realize it due to your jaded nature, but your funny t-shirts could very well be offensive. If you are too jaded to figure it out, you need to look carefully at your shirts and run through a mental checklist of offensive material to make certain your shirts are safe to wear out in the real world. You also need to understand that some things that seem hilarious on a computer, may not be so funny to everyone else. Just make sure that your shirt isn't about anything sexual, offensive words, religious, or political statements. Simple, right?
The real bad thing about all of this is the lack of freedom we have in a country that is founded on free speech. Political Correctness has eroded away our ability to say whatever we want, and that's a real shame. When people are afraid to speak their mind because someone else might get offended, then we've only succeeded in silencing new ideas. So what is worse, a generation that doesn't care about being offended or a generation that imposes its will on others?
That seemed like a great plan until you actually arrived and left the safety of your vehicle. Once you walked up to the fruit and veggie stand you popped your chest out so that everyone could read your funny t-shirt in order to join you for a laugh. Well, that's not what is happening. What's happening is that you are being yelled at by an old farmer lady and being chased back to your car. Something has gone wonderfully wrong. You have offended everyone with one of your funny t-shirts. I wonder what could have happened?
You may have the greatest taste in funny t-shirts in the whole wide world, but that will do you no good if you don't have the right audience to laugh at your wearable joke. There is a huge divide that separates the newest generation coming of age, and the eldest three generations. That divide is the unknowable gulf called the "Internet". Young people have grown up with information right at their fingertips, both good and bad. Blood, guts, cursing, and nudity helped raised our children into young adults. Now, there is no image left that could intimidate or offend for them while the older generations only use the Internet to check their AOL mail and their Ebay accounts.
You may not realize it due to your jaded nature, but your funny t-shirts could very well be offensive. If you are too jaded to figure it out, you need to look carefully at your shirts and run through a mental checklist of offensive material to make certain your shirts are safe to wear out in the real world. You also need to understand that some things that seem hilarious on a computer, may not be so funny to everyone else. Just make sure that your shirt isn't about anything sexual, offensive words, religious, or political statements. Simple, right?
The real bad thing about all of this is the lack of freedom we have in a country that is founded on free speech. Political Correctness has eroded away our ability to say whatever we want, and that's a real shame. When people are afraid to speak their mind because someone else might get offended, then we've only succeeded in silencing new ideas. So what is worse, a generation that doesn't care about being offended or a generation that imposes its will on others?
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