“Lesbian” Shirt Got Woman Kicked Out of Federal Building

Someone’s getting fired! D-bag. Working in a federal building..didn’t he get the ‘do not do these things or else we’ll be hit with an expensive lawsuit’ training?

wow, i can understand if it was an ACTUAL offensive shirt, let’s say, two lesbians getting it on in vivid detail, but too get the boot for simply dispalying the word “lesbian”…wow thats a bit of piss off.

Ridiculous… I wonder what would happen if I wore my “I <3 Vaginas” (from the Vagina Monologues) tshirt into a federal building…

It’s definitely more offensive.

@Mandy….same thing would’ve happened.

The guard was probably wrong…legally speaking. But, sure don’t have to be head cashier at Walmart to understand where he was coming from. I agree with ted. And if she wins a big lawsuit, I might buy a lesbian.com tshirt myself.

This is typical “rent-a-cop” behaviour. They think they have some power and they try to assert it every chance they get. Let’s hope someone with REAL power fires this so-called “Security” guard. How does kicking somebody out with “lesbian” on their shirt make anything more secure?

I smell an easily won lawsuit.

‘lesbian.com’ is in no way offensive to someone who’s not a bigot. ‘asking to be victimized’? really?? you win the idiot of the day award.

She’s absolutely thrilled at this opportunity for some media grandstanding and conspicuous victimhood.

“Give me a break.”

If you made that assertion, I wouldn’t question your experience (unless there was obvious contradictory evidence). Give people a little benefit of the doubt, or at least a little respect.

Obviously, today she was discriminated against. Have you lived her life? Do you know something we don’t? If not, how can you say that she hasn’t had it tough on account of her race or sexual orientation, perhaps on a daily basis?

Peace.

“She’s absolutely thrilled at this opportunity for some media grandstanding and conspicuous victimhood.” –Evil Pundit

That’s a ‘conspicuously safe’ thing to say. Leading the charge.. got a few hits for that one huh?

Jokes, jabs, murder.. grinning rictus of the straw man grows ever wider, but you’ve got to pay attention before you can make things better. The guard who abused privileges to bully another human being (an employee even!) needs to be disciplined accordingly.

@ted

maybe it was just a free t-shirt, and it happened to be at the top of the clean laundry pile. i wear all sorts of random t-shirts i score as promos and end up advertising products i care nothing about.

Sweet! ted and PolX are going at it! Everybody get ready for well thought-out arguments and vast oceans of wit!

The guard over reacted, and now he is reaping the consequences of his mistakes. She had every right to wear her shirt, whether or not she is a lesbian. The word is neither vulgar or offensive to anyone it describes. Truthfully, she was actually doing a service to the community by trying to educate others about a very important topic right now.

I believe her quote about how she is treated in every day life. As a woman, a homosexual, and a minority she has 3 strikes against her in our society. Being insensitive to her statement does not make it false.

I agree, I don’t care what her shirt says, she should have been told to leave.

However, on that idea, she could have said the same thing on her shirt but with humor.

Like these ideas:

“Guess what I learned in prison”

“I love the little man in the boat!”

“Waitress needed, apply above ^^”

“Camel toe Jockey”

“Ask why I smell like tuna”

“Want me to finish that for you?”

any body else got any ideas?

Humor only guys and girls.

If she’d been wearing a heterosexual.com t-shirt, none of this would have happened. I went and looked at the site and it appears to be just a resource site for lesbians. Hardly offensive (maybe some of the links are a little more graphic, but the site itself is quite tame).

And with “jokes” like Jimbo’s floating around, you can see why lesbians would feel victimized.

I guess we now know what Jimbo sits around thinking about all day.

I think most people here disagree with you Ted because nothing in the article implied she went in just to get victimized so she could file a lawsuit or whine about the hardships of being a minority (which actually exist no matter how much you want to accuse actual victims of actively searching out victimhood). Also, ‘we all’ aren’t assuming the guard was white.

‘Son? So I’m guessing wearing the t-shirt wasn’t the only hasty decision this woman has made.’

Does this actually make any sense that I’m missing? Are you implying her having children is evidence of irresponsibility?

Oh and ted,

“And I don’t have vast oceans of wit. My wit’s so dry, I have vast deserts of it.”

great line btw.

Ted, I disagree, too. She didn’t go there to get thrown out. She was wearing a shirt to run an errand, a shirt to educate others and was discriminated against (very badly, in my opinion) for it. The opportunity to educate MORE people fell into her lap. I hope she uses the publicity to her advantage, and she absolutely deserves to win a suit if she files one. That would not be a frivolous lawsuit, it would help educate about discrimination. The fact that sharing this story publicly opens her up to MORE discrimination (see some of the comments here and multiply) and she’s doing it anyway doesn’t say “loves to be victimized”. It tells me that she’s sacrificing her personal safety to help her cause.

What has happened to this country where we have become a nation of offended people. I have two lesbian friends and we joke all the time. I am straight by the way. I tell them that God hates them and they just say that makes them hot. It is humor! We are great friends even though we disagree.

However, having said that, let me be clear. She should not have lost her job over this unless the company policy has a dress code about such things. Many do, but they should have ask her to go home and change. That is what they do here. The very fact that is made it here means that it hit the media. So she is in fact an Attention Whore, to the core. Do know how many times in my life I have been treated poorly? Plenty, but do I call the news and become a Attention Whore? NO

I was even laid off on December 15th one year so they wouldn’t have to pay me my week vacation pay. NOTHING I could do about. This stuff happens and it is always best to just do your job and make a statement somewhere else.

For the record, I would never wear a shirt to work that said something like http://www.youngpornmovies.com. I would get fired too!

BTW, glad some of you have a little humor

SO WHAT?

Quoting her:
“As an African-American and a lesbian, I haven’t been through one day without facing some sort of discrimination”

BOO HOO! OH NOOOOS! Live is so hard! Perhaps we should make a law that promotes lezzering in school?

Dry up lady.