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The T-shirt ACTUALLY says "Do I make you look fat?" I've seen that misquoted in every story I've read about this tempest in a teapot, and it's very easy to check--just look on Abercrombie's website.
Personally, I bought the "I'm not with stupid anymore" t-shirt to wear to a function where, well, "stupid" happened to be. Pretty much everyone who saw it was amused (though I suppose stupid himself wasn't). BTW, I'm 39.
I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Spencer's sells more offensive t-shirts than the ones A&F have. Yeah, some I wouldn't wear myself, but jeez, people--you don't HAVE to buy them. The "girlcott" basically brought A&F some nice publicity--I wouldn't have known about or bought a (ridiculously overpriced) shirt without the "girlcott", since I rarely go to malls, let alone go into A&F--and left the impression, once again, that this country has no sense of humor, and no sense of proportion. I mean, please--don't we have ENOUGH to worry about?
