Too Pretty To Do Homework, But Not Too Young To Steal Your Boyfriend

There are so many important lessons feminists need to impart to the young teen and tween women of today.

I personally would like to let “pretty girls” (and only the pretty girls) know that they don’t really have to try at school, read the occasional book or go to homework club because their looks will take them wherever they want to go in life. And if, on the off chance they are unable achieve something, not to worry because some guy can always do it for them.

I’d also like girls to know they are ALWAYS in competition with one other in the most important race of all, the race to secure a boyfriend. I’d tell them to go to any lengths to get their hands on a man, even if it means pinching someone else’s.

This rubbish is pretty much what retailers and fashion labels have been preaching to girls as young as seven, over the past few months.

A girls’ t-shirt with the message “I’m too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me,” has been pulled from the shelves of JC Penney after an online petition from Change.org had thousands of signatures within hours of being unleashed on Twitter. Signatories were upset, not only by the main text printed on the shirt, but also by the description reading “Who has time for homework when there’s a new Justin Beiber album out?”

Don’t forget now, you can be smart or you can be pretty. Never both.

In Toronto, feminists and child protection activists have expressed similar outrage to a girls’ top emblazoned with the words “Boom! I got your boyfriend” because making vixens out of five-year-olds is evidently the new black. Here’s hoping the Winners store stocking this idiotic garment will take a leaf out of JC Penney’s book and get rid of them quick smart.

In response to the whole debacle a JC Penney rep admitted:

“We agree that the ‘Too pretty’ t-shirt does not deliver an appropriate message.”

So why sell the flippin’ thing in the first place?

It’s a no brainer that we’re all better off without it.

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