What would you rather do, Run through a mall in your hometown completely naked on the weekend when it’s crowded or walk through a mall 2000 miles away from where you live wearing a black shirt that says in big white letters “I Molest little kids everyday”. If you chose the first one you could not be arrested if you chose the second one nobody could physically harm you.
If no one can hurt me I pick walking with the tee shirt.
I still have to interact with many people in my home town. I am back at least twice a year. Dealing with the repercussions of running nude through a mall would be difficult. If people don’t know me and can’t hurt me they can make rude gestures as well as call me names during my walk, and say nasty things about this crazy person with a tee shirt advocating molestation to each other later, but I am not touched by it. I know I don’t molest children, and none of my friends or acquaintances can whisper behind their hands “The years really haven’t been kind to Reepicheep.”
Wait…so, I get to run nekkid through the mall, and I’m not getting arrested? Sheeeeet, hand me my jogging shoes.
Unless I wouldn’t be allowed to wear them either.
I have to live in my hometown, and it’s a very small town indeed… and half the population work with my husband and my father or used to work with my grandfather.
Besides, people will notice I’m naked. Not everyone will bother to read the words on my t-shirt (possibly even no one).
Exactly. And those who do are not likely to actually believe I’m a child molester. They’re likely to think I’m an asshole with a sick sense of humour. Which would be accurate …not that it normally extends to wearing tee shirts like that. But what do I care if a bunch of strangers think I’m twisted…as opposed to a bunch of friends and aquaintences knowing I haven’t been to the gym in ages?
The t-shirt, no contest. I doubt anyone would really think I like to molest children and advertize it on my clothes. Probably I’d look just like a dumb kid starved for attention, which doesn’t bother me. I think it helps that I’m young and female, too - I’d have more of a problem with wearing the shirt if I were an older man. Anyway, “shocking” tees are a dime a dozen these days. And there’s no way I’m letting strangers sneak a peek at my privates.
I could probably get through three aisles pushing a cart at the grocery store before anyone noticed I was naked. Streaking through a shopping mall around here wouldn’t be terribly interesting either. The food court would be unhappy for all the appitites I’d spoil, though.
Don’t look Ethel!
Conversely, I’m a 44-year-old man, and I’d pick the naked run through the mall. Not that many people in town know me (I’ve only lived here for three years), and those who do wouldn’t be as shocked to see me naked (after all, they must realize I take showers!) as strangers 2000 miles away would rightly be if I were wearing clothing espousing a practice that would potentially endanger themselves or their loved ones. Nudity in and of itself isn’t offensive, whereas “I molest kids every day” is, even if it’s “just a slogan” on a shirt.
Lets see…Running through the Mall Naked could lead to fame and fortune(in my case anyway), and wearing the T-shirt could lead to a beat down. If I was running through the mall could I at least have a phone number on my back? Maybe do promotions for local companys or something… :eek: :eek: :eek: