Mother of murder victim outraged by shirt she says promotes violence

Article published Saturday, January 20, 2007
Mother of murder victim outraged by shirt she says promotes violence

By CHRISTINA HALL
BLADE STAFF WRITER


For $8, Pat Rizzi bought a T-shirt that she says screams domestic violence.
The first panel on the Attitude Tees-brand garment, dubbed “Problem,” appears to show a stick-figure girl animatedly expressing her unhappiness with an equally unhappy stick-figure boy.

The next panel, called “Solved,” shows a smiling boy pushing the girl through the panel and the girl falling head-first down the side of the shirt.

Mrs. Rizzi — whose daughter Michelle Rizzi Salerno was found slain nearly seven years ago — plans to take the shirt to a protest tomorrow in West Toledo in which she and others hope to have the T-shirts forever pulled from the shelves of Kmart stores across the country.

Meijer stores have pulled the shirts as a result of similar complaints.

“My daughter was murdered as a result of domestic violence,” Mrs. Rizzi said.

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http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070120/NEWS03/70120001

picture of t-shirt here...
http://toimg.sv.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=TO&Date=20070120&Category=NEWS03&ArtNo=70120001&Ref=AR&MaxW=500&title=1

so don't BUY the shirt. now THERE'S a 'problem solved'.

Then all HELL would be breaking loose. :mad:

she was given a shirt that says 'how to drop a boyfriend' as a joke. In the first box is a stick figure of girl with boy. In the second box it's stick girl hitting stick boy and him falling.

and they are selling well. See prior thread on this topic

I've read violent comics, played video games, played Dungeons & Dragons and listened to heavy metal. Not once did I worship the devil, kill other people, or think misogyny was a good idea because it was portrayed by stick figures on a tee shirt. Something is chemically wrong with those people before, say, they see the shirt. Blaming the shirt gets us nowhere but to a false end.