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>>Elliott: A Utah mother was shopping with her 18-year-old son, at the mall, and pulled
one of the biggest, “COME ON, MOM” moments this side of the *** Revolution.
>>Joe: Upon seeing a line of clothing on display in the window of the mall’s PacSun store,
she promptly went inside and demanded the clothes be taken down. Why? BECAUSE THEY WERE
FROM THE DEVIL.
>>Elliott: The line of clothing was PacSun’s Visual line, which depicts *** clad women,
big booties, flirty girls, and does this thing where they essentially, “sell sex,” a
concept so new and cutting edge, we couldn’t even come up with a term for it.
>>Joe: Wait…
>>Elliott: Hold on…
>>Joe: Selling…
>>Elliott: Sex…
>>Joe: We did it! Judy *** went into the store, and upon hearing that her complaint would
have to be vetted by PacSun’s corporate higher-ups, who all wear flip flops, trucker
hats, and shecklaces…
>>Elliott: Shecklaces?
>>Joe: Shell necklaces.
>>Elliott: Ah.
>>Joe: She bought all the shirts. All of them. There were 19, and Mrs. ***’s total came
to 567-Pacsun-supporting dollars.
>>Elliott: Legend has it, the stack of shirts she bought was so tall that on the way out
of the mall, she tripped over nine homeless people asking for money.
>>Joe: Now, this debacle takes place in Utah County, which is ultraconservative, so this
kind of behavior kind of makes sense. Also, in fairness, Mrs. *** objected to the public
display of the nearly-pornographic material, as the window displays are passed by small
children, not just Satan-worshipping adolescents.
>>Elliott: Good point, Joe. If there’s one thing I pride myself on with SourceFed, it’s
being fair and balanced, not unlike all of our favorite primary news source, Fox News.
>>Joe: We sweat journalistic integrity, mostly because our air conditioning is a li’l finicky.
>>Elliott: There is a certain uncomfortable irony in judging this woman for using her
own money in a way we deem, at best, pointless, and at worst, hypocritical.
>>Joe: Exactly, Elliott. In a world where women are encouraged to meet certain standards
of beauty, removing these t-shirts from public display could help young women not feel, at
least for a moment, certain societal pressures.
>>Elliott: And while Judy ***’s motivation might be rooted in an ultra-conservative fear
of sex, one must ask, so what? Are one’s passionate, safe, and legal protests suddenly
invalid if they project a worldview largely considered archaic?
>>Joe: Is there not a form of progress found in the acceptance of another’s belief system,
not even, but ESPECIALLY when that belief system is largely counter to our own?
>>Elliott: And do beliefs counter to the status quo not allow us to vet our own internal struggles
and perhaps, in self-critique and humility, reach a better understand of other people?
>>Joe: Also, she is planning on returning the clothes before PacSun’s 60-day return
policy, so she’ll get her money back, and who knows—maybe donate it to someone or
something.
>>Elliott: But despite the opposing viewpoints in this particular story, one thing is for
sure…
>>Elliott and Joe: We don’t give a crap.
>>Joe: If this lady wants to buy every piece of hell-ushering *** in Utah, she can go
for it. Have at it.
>>Elliott: And if she wants to donate that money instead, to like, the ASPCA, great.
Or if she wants to take all of her money, call it the root of all evil, bury it in her
backyard, then set her lawn on fire, GREAT.
>>Joe: GREAT. Guys, tell us what side of this do you fall on. Think about it. Or don’t.
That’s your right. Seriously though, you should think about it.