American Apparel’s Period Power T-Shirt Gets a NAWL
Sometimes, making a fashion statement can go beyond edgy into “too damb much” category. American Apparel is now selling a t-shirt printed with a drawing of a masturbating vagina that’s menstruating that they call “Period Power” because ART! For $32, you too can support the work of a collective of women who do art. While rocking bleeding nether regions on your chest. O___________O
Even the model is like “Why am I wearing this?”
*faints* Ew. EWWWW. UGH! Do not want. Return to sender.
I’m pretty sure my lunch from yesterday just tried to make its way back up my THOAT. This is gross. Sorry not sorry. I’m a woman hear me roar and all that jazz. I’m not here to slut-shame so STFU to those who are about to come at me with that. Yes, everything this drawing shows is natural and it’s what women are supposed to do. You know what else is natural? Digestion. And I don’t need to rock a t-shirt showing my stomach acid breaking down my rice and stew. Because NO.
This drawing was created by a feminist artist named Petra and when it came across the table of the execs of American Apparel, they were like “YES!!! LET’S PUT IT ON A T-SHIRT!” Was no one in the room like “Let’s not and say we didn’t?” No one was like:
Clearly. Because it’s out on the market and it’s ridiculous.
I get that this is feminist art or whatever and if I was ALLAWAY uncouth, I’d go FEMINIST DEEZ NUTS! But I’ve grown. Therefore I will say that if being a feminist requires wearing a bloody Love Pocket that may or may not need a trim on your shirt, then I might have to tap out. This is the kind of representation of feminism that makes people shy away from the word because it’s STRAW and a bit unrelatable.
Who wants to wear this on their shirt? Come on!
And yes, folks will be all “well this is art.” I get it. And I know this is supposed to be about girl power but NAWL. ALL THE NAWLS THAT EVER NAWLED IN NAWLAND!
Ladies (and gentlemen), please don’t feel the need to rock a menstruating vagina on your tshirt to be empowered. You can battle patriarchy in ways that won’t make me uninvite you from our lunch date. Ain’t nobody here for this. By nobody, I mean me. I’m so not here for this that I tattooed the word “THERE” on my forearm.
No.
What do y’all think of this t-shirt? you buying or nah? And if you are, tell me so I can report you as spam. The meat.
P.S. EEWWWW!!!
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So…it took me a minute. Because I was all, “That’s so funny that Luvvie thinks that’s a vagina. Nobody would put a vagina on a shirt.” So I stared at it for a while, you know, to crack the code…and now, now my faith in humanity is gone.
We have bleeding vagina shirts, Jeebus, what else is next, squirting penii…representing the fountain of you?
You humans make me sad 😐
Or fountain of youth…lol, whichever works
I dunno, “fountain of you” would have been pretty appropriate too.
Jesus wept.
…and so shall I.
STOP, just STOP!
This is why I never really got on the feminism train, because some of them do stuff like this. It makes no statement, it’s just extra.
“Look at me! I have a vagina, I’m being defiant!”
This just says, I’m crazy, see?! Look at me! Stare at my crazy!
I just have a constant loop of the intro to that old Public Enemy song in my head as I look at this “art”:
“And many of us, by the way we act, we have even lost our minds.”
Anyone who even considers wearing this just needs to take all the seats available and get all the grips there are available. This shit is beyond whackadoo.
I’m with you! The only statement I see is…”Yup..I’m crazy..WHAT?”
I’m sorry who is actually here for their period and loves it so much they just need to tell the world by putting it on a t-shirt?…..Don’t worry, I’ll wait. That is just NO, I can’t. It’s gaudy and over-the-top. Go home American Apparel you’re obviously drunk and for $32 NO! I get tortured once a month by my period I don’t need an expensive reminder of that.
YES!
Alladis!!
TABERNACLE! lol!
That is nasty. Then again CEO Dov Charney is the same jerk who thinks it’s okay to masturbate in front of employees. There’s nothing feminist about that tshirt. There are plenty of bodily functions that I really do not need to see on a shirt or anywhere outside of my doctor’s office for that matter.
Thinks it’s okay to WHAT?! I’d quit.
Seriously google him. Dude is crazy! I remembered him from an article on the crazy a while back, so when this t-shirt popped up, I wasn’t even surprised.
I am so unable O.o!!!! Who in the flying hell came up with this Bullsheesh? I’m an artist and feminist and in no way find this empowering. This is just downright disgusting. There is a line and it ain’t invisible, and American Apparel have crossed it with this tomfoolery!
This is not hip, ironic, feminist, or trendy. This is nasty as all the F’s I could give. Congratulations, American Apparel – by trying your best to reach a new and classless low, you have finally come up with a shirt that would make a restaurant ask you to be topless rather than wear this tacky and tasteless hot garbage so patrons do not get ill.
Sometimes I wanna kick people outta life just like I could kick them outta my house.
I can totally see Rihanna rocking this. Not because she’s a feminist….just because.
“Sometimes I wanna kick people outta life”
^^^^^ this is how I’ve been feeling recently between the government shutdown, the stupid people who despise Obamacare but like the Affordable care act (Jimmy Kimmel skit) and now this ish!!!
I’ve been saying I want to win the lotto so I can buy a guarded island and seclude myself but your plan works better.
I have never masturbated while on my period, so this shirt is lost on me.
GIRL! Why mufuggas cannot wait 4 gahtdamb days is beyond me. But whatever. I ain’t e’em gon belabor that.
Are they trying to capitalize on the period sex scene in Fifty Shades that also made me throw up? A movie tie in, perhaps? There has to be a “reason” for this mess…Like this can’t just be an “artsy” t-shirt, right? If so, I am finally proud of that D I got in Art, because this is past terrible. I mean, I get it’s the circle of life blah blah blah and it really is nothing to be ashamed of but this t-shirt…. just hell to the no! REALLY!! Yes, I happen to have a vagina and yes I get my period, yes I put a penis in it fairly often, and maybe one day, a baby will pop out of it before my ovaries dry all the way up, but I don’t need a t-shirt graphically depicting any of those activities. Just ugh.
BAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!! RIGHT! Patience is a VIRTUE!!!
exACTly!
We grown so I’ll share sometimes it helps with cramps.
What in cold hell… Yes. Cold hell. Because it will be a cold day in hell before I even CONSIDER buying or wearing a T-shirt showing a bloody pudenda. Cold hell.
Disgusting. Degrading. Despicable. Desperate for attention. Dumb. Debasing. A debacle
Nasty. No Class. Nah Son. Nope. NO.
This is why I disassociate myself with crazy feminism. What does it ever accomplish.? Everything women work hard for gets overshadowed by stupidity & so-called expression. What’s the message? That S**t aint Art !
LOL @ 4 damn days. The sense of urgency is lost upon all of me. “NAWL. ALL THE NAWLS THAT EVER NAWLED IN NAWLAND!” killed me lol. Do you snicker as you write?
All I have to say is not being able to wait until your period is over to masturbate and this tee shirt is some (insert whatever fits here) people ish. SMH.
NAWL be an entire wrought-iron electrified fence around this devilment.
^^^This comment here^^^
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…the fuck? No. Just flat out no. With a bitch slap for the designer of this fuckery and two for Dov Charney on general principle.
Thank You Very Much Mz Lady for imbedding this SUPERWACK image in my brain. Now please give me instructions on how to UNSEE this.
That is so ridiculously disgusting. What wat that artist going through to make her draw that? She needs to take a few more art classes at the local community college and get her life.
I was just saying to myself, now I know I got a D in art as a freshman but DANG, I must have missed that class for real! Just WRONG!
Yeah, I’m with you on the ewwww. Also, “Was no one in the room like “Let’s not and say we didn’t?” There are so many things that make me ask this question. While it’s sad that one person has no judgement, a whole group of people?!
That must be one jacked-up think tank at that business. If I had to be at a meeting and this idea came up, I would fold all my notes up like the piano player in The Color Purple and tell them I gotta go. No explanation, apology, or any damb thing – I will be gone from that nasty place.
It doesn’t bother me. I just don’t feel the need to wear it on my shirt. My firsts thoughts were. Are you suppose to wear it on your period???
well…if someone held a gun to my head…or a bloody tampon/pad in my face (EWWWWW, i know…I’s soory lol), my period would be the ONLY time i’d this hot, stank mess (lol see what i did there?)! this is why women, especially non-nuttyashell feminists, can’t have nice things.
*i’d wear this…..i may be grossed out & annoyed by this shirt and the peeps who said YES to this mess, but i’s can read n writes good! lol
*stomps foot in disgust* with my WTF face
American Apparel is a true hot mess and with this t-shirt continues to be so. Stop this madness!
We can be feminists without putting all our business in the street. Damn
Just what I want to see walking down the street or at a restaurant. NOT
And the hand in the drawing is huge and fugly. Time to drop out of art school and find a new hobby.
Good for you and your art but my 6yo does NOT need to see this crap walking thru the mall or down the street.
I’m ok with my period and yay feminism but fucking A, use some fucking common sense, you fucking morons.
No, just no.
Oh Wow, that’s how they feel at AA? I’m a woman, a feminist, I masturbate, and above all I have style. I can get down with a lot of things, but this shirt isn’t one of them. I’m appalled! With this one AA is like school in the summertime…No Class. Yes I took it back to the days of Fat Albert with that reference, AND WHAT!?!
Just un-fuggin-necessary…
*raises hand shyly in the back of the classroom*
Soooooo….nobody in the world loves the artist enough to tell her “Sweet Luv, while we appreciate your mission and we are very much here for you feminist attitude, that’s a bleeding pussy, honey. We can’t sell that in our stores because you know it’s just….no….”
Petra doesn’t need more people, she needs better people.
UGH!!! When I first read the story, the picture wouldn’t load. I said “masturbating vagina that’s menstruating?? Luvvie’s gonna have to edit that part.” I was SURE that “masturbating” was the victim of autocorrect. SIGH. How wrong I was.
This is TERRIBLE.
This T-Shirt has nothing to do with feminism. Or anything that makes sense.
^ALLADIS. conflating feminism and needless foulness is a problem that i am having at this time. (and/or using feminism as a cover for UTTER FOOLISHNESS – which dudes like dov charney are really good at, in a twisted fucked up way.)
this shirt is attention whoring at it’s finest…nothing more, nothing less. ugh.
das Nasty,but I’m sleep though
Whoever this artist Petra is needs to be slapped or punched in the throat. I mean really?! If you want people to avoid you then yes wear this shirt…damn
Dear lawd why?! Bodily functions (especially those involving bodily fluids) shouldn’t be broadcasted to the world via tshirt! No ma’am. No sir. No ma’amsir. Just NO. This makes me uncomfortable. I don’t want to see gentians on people’s shirts. And I sure as HELL don’t want to see bloody genitals on a shirt. I’m good.
This does, however remind me of a post I saw on tumblr about “free-bleeding”, which I had to google because I refused to believe it was a thing. The photo set was of women with their period blood running down their legs because they free-bleed aka don’t wear pads or use tampons on their periods. O.o
*genitals. My smart phone is a smart ass.
This is just NASSIE! The city of Petra was called “the rose red” city. Ummmm Petra…it still aint cute!
This is why I stopped calling myself a dang feminist. Motha is a womanist, and this mess would NOT be on my body. I mean….AA stopped carrying extended sizes anyway, but like…if I were skinnier and edgier, this STILL would not go on my body. No lie–I giggle with the girls on Tumblr when we make menses jokes that scare the boys. I can somewhat (I say that very lightly) appreciate the artistic menses photoset series that says “it’s a normal, natural thing”. But THIS. This is somebody’s drawn lady business having a stroke while the red river flows.
No. No. No.
No ma’am. o_o
Ahhh, my eyes! My eyes! I could have lived my entire life without seeing this! Seems like a desperate attempt for attention to me…
Even the model is looking at us like “really guys? Y’all are gonna make me wear this shit?”
I bet when they gave her a copy of the picture for her portfolio she flushed it down the toilet. She ain’t getting no jobs with that damn picture in her book. I bet she dyed her hair, changed her name and moved states.
What a mess.
Jesus be a Kotex, some well worn granny panties and some sweat pants. This image is easily the worst thing that happened to me today. I was about to make some dinner, but I’ll pass.
EWW. Sidenote – Besides the period grossness – why do the hands look all decrepit and creepy?
Looks like Lerch’s hand or something from a horror movie.
Petra need to have a seat (with her legs crossed).
So let me get this straight. ………. Jesus died on the cross on Good Friday and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday for some dumb ass at American Apparel to make a t-shirt with a girl masturbating her Picasso style bleeding vagina on its period???????? I can’t find the words right now…I can’t find the words.
EWWWWWWNAAAWLUGGGGGHHHH!!!!! NO-DAMN-MA’AM!!!!! American Apparel and Petra needs to have ALLLLLLLLLLLLL the seats ever!!!!
*looks at picture* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Not even reading this. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *sets laptop on fire*
I’m not feeling one way or another about this American Apparel piece, but I would love to know your thoughts on this feminist art project called Cliteracy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4cvxd40CaI (and it’s set of t-shirts): http://collect.sophiawallace.com/
This shirt makes me sad…that is all.
It’s bad enough that I dread granny showin up every month…let alone a nasty ass T-Shirt to remind me of the “Red Curse” #FOHWTBSAA!!!
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Two words.
DOV.
CHARNEY.
I’m through.
Real story:
Feminist artist cracks wise; catches American Apparel manager rubber stamping everything on their desk so they can duck out early.
When the model has a ‘Jesus Take the Wheel” look about what she’s wearing, it’s not a good idea.
thats the whole point of the tshirt…? women like you make me sad, if you ever took the time to read what petra collins is trying to do you would understand that she is trying to break you out of this stupid mindframe your in where bleeding vaginas and squirting penis’s are somehow wrong? or digusting? yes…. VAGINAS BLEED. and yes… PENIS’S EJACULATE. this shirt was made for people like you to grow up
You just need to stop,Sis…You mad?.I’m an artist too and what annoys me about some “artists” (besides helping in the reputation of artists being crazy and detached from reality) is nowadays,young artists are trying to be way too edgy and want to “stir controversy” on nothing or on some personal bullshit,not some “in-depth,complexity of woman” feelings,but bull feces, for some damn press,whether good or bad.It’s hardly about finding beauty or making a statement that matters outside oneself for greater good of people.I’m not saying that whatever her point in this is not valid,but Georgia O’Keefe it’s NOT.Her execution of putting it on a t-shirt to make a “statement”…”Fxck everybody and everything,this is me” shit…is wack.It’s just tasteless and tacky for public display,keep that shit in a loft—>art gallery…So gimme a break (in my Nell Carter voice) wit alladat “y’all need to grow up” crap.Wooooo!You almost made me go outside to cut off a switch…Now I need a beer….
Mother of all things big and small!! If this is all the artist could come up with, she needs to change careers. This is just stupid. Not edgy, not art, not a statement, just stupid. Some people have waaay too much time on their hands.
A million times yes. How many penises do you see drawn on book covers in schools, all over the internet— it’s become an acceptable pop image whether you acknowledge it or not. Female genitalia, on the other hand, is censored and a cause of shame. I’m not saying I want five shirts with a menstruating masturbating woman on it— but one would be awesome.