This is indeed the remaining interpretation. The shirt about NOT caring what men think AT ALL, perhaps saying that the wearer does in fact care about this.
I like how if someone objects to the characterization of the White Lady, she says it was a sarcastic funny joke and to get a life, while if someone takes it seriously and meditates on the evilness of White Lady's thoughts....nothing whatsoever about it being a joke.
I guess maybe it's a generational thing, but I'm always struck by how, as a society, we seem to have collectively given up on... well, I don't even know. Basic human decency? Grade school-level ethics? The notion that we have any obligations to each other that transcend the political and/or transactional? The self-awareness to know that being a righteous asshole is still being an asshole? Everyone just seems to be so relentlessly, ostentatiously hateful, and it's all propped up by this endless cycle of offense-giving and offense-taking that we're wholly invested in.
I mean, I'm pretty left-leaning and 100% sympathetic to what the tweeter has probably been through and/or observed in her life and why she might behave the way she does and why she might be particularly prickly where "white ladies at the gym" are concerned. That is, you could say there's a certain critical perspective to which I'm sure the tweeter subscribes and which I acknowledge as being truthful and accurate in many ways.
HOWEVER...
There's also another way that critical perspective just serves as some ready-made underdog revenge fantasy narrative lore similar to all the bizarre conspiratorial Q-anon chem-trail vaccine mask great replacement blah blah victimization tales the right constantly cooks up. And it doesn't even matter at that point if it is true or accurate, because its whole purpose is to preemptively justify being bad to other people.
It becomes clear elsewhere in the thread that the "Literally" sentence appears many times on the same t-shirt. Repeated, as though on a classroom blackboard.
The shirt that doth protest too much.
This is indeed the remaining interpretation. The shirt about NOT caring what men think AT ALL, perhaps saying that the wearer does in fact care about this.
I like how if someone objects to the characterization of the White Lady, she says it was a sarcastic funny joke and to get a life, while if someone takes it seriously and meditates on the evilness of White Lady's thoughts....nothing whatsoever about it being a joke.
Very true.
I guess maybe it's a generational thing, but I'm always struck by how, as a society, we seem to have collectively given up on... well, I don't even know. Basic human decency? Grade school-level ethics? The notion that we have any obligations to each other that transcend the political and/or transactional? The self-awareness to know that being a righteous asshole is still being an asshole? Everyone just seems to be so relentlessly, ostentatiously hateful, and it's all propped up by this endless cycle of offense-giving and offense-taking that we're wholly invested in.
I mean, I'm pretty left-leaning and 100% sympathetic to what the tweeter has probably been through and/or observed in her life and why she might behave the way she does and why she might be particularly prickly where "white ladies at the gym" are concerned. That is, you could say there's a certain critical perspective to which I'm sure the tweeter subscribes and which I acknowledge as being truthful and accurate in many ways.
HOWEVER...
There's also another way that critical perspective just serves as some ready-made underdog revenge fantasy narrative lore similar to all the bizarre conspiratorial Q-anon chem-trail vaccine mask great replacement blah blah victimization tales the right constantly cooks up. And it doesn't even matter at that point if it is true or accurate, because its whole purpose is to preemptively justify being bad to other people.
That lady is just like Jesus when Pontius Pilates made Jesus do the emotional labor of explaining whether or not he was a king.
How dare you.
It becomes clear elsewhere in the thread that the "Literally" sentence appears many times on the same t-shirt. Repeated, as though on a classroom blackboard.