They're Shirts

These are the facts:

1. We are selling a 2-pack of graphic tees from our semi-defunct tee site, Mediocritee. (And by semi-defunct, we mean: we moved it to a corner of SideDeal.
2. The shirts will be random. You won’t be able to choose what they are.
3. The standard men’s shirts will be cheap. Like, 2 for $14.
4. The women’s shirts will be even cheaper. Like, 2 for $8.

What’s the deal with this? Is it some cheeky inversion of the “pink tax”? Some attempt to right an ancient wrong, or at least appear to publicly? That some people will praise as activism at its finest while others call it a flaccid gesture towards wokeness, one without a modicum of self-assessment or investigation into how capitalism–a system from which we benefit–serves as the foundation for the very issues we seek to rectify?

Uh, no, not really.

See, a little while ago, we consulted with a number of forecasters and analysts and business gurus and after much agonizing, we decided the way forward would be to offer women’s shirts. But in all of the number crunching and diagramming and brainstorming, we forgot to take into account a small piece of data: nobody fucking wants these things.

Or, at least, our customers don’t. Most just want the basic shirt-shaped t-shirt. After all, we’re selling graphic tees with Marios and cats on them, not wedding dresses.

What’s poetic here is that we find ourselves in a similar position as many of the companies whose products we regularly sell. Like, so this is how feels to make a goofy business decision and end up seeing our product end up on Meh! And now we’re here, experiencing the horror of reading the way-too-transparent copy we ourselves wrote!

Life is crazy, isn’t it?

But anyway, if you don’t want the women’s shirts we also have the other ones too.