Comments on: Not Exactly What You’re Going For

By: Bill Daugherty

Bill Daugherty — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:20:30 +0000

Men are visual creatures. Whatever else may be said about it, like its deep décolleté sisters, this tank top is designed to draw the eye to a specific location. If location didn’t matter, the message would be on the belly or the back. Let chaste clothing be the first indication of chaste intentions.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:37:33 +0000

With all due respect, it is blog posts like this that create the impression that abstinence is touted only by the unrealistic. Teenagers don’t need encouragement to think about sex…and we aren’t going to control it through wardrobe choices. Even the Catholic school uniform has become a sex symbol.

This tank top acknowledges sexuality (rather than trying to hide or avoid it…which never, EVER works) and, winking, challenges us to control ourselves. Good idea.

By: Matthew J. Peterson

Matthew J. Peterson — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:24:26 +0000

“You aren’t sexy enough to wait for.”

Bwhahahaha…and so it goes.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:15:53 +0000

I can just the counter-shirt. “You aren’t sexy enough to wait for.”

By: Angus McWasp

Angus McWasp — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:20:57 +0000

But isn’t Walker Percy right when he reminds us that within a second or two it becomes a perilous business to look into the eyes of someone of the opposite sex?

By: Matthew J. Peterson

Matthew J. Peterson — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:15:10 +0000

I share Nina’s bemusement with the shirt. Not really a fan. Yet I can’t help but think that the line on the shirt (maybe, better said, the line taken off the shirt and put on paper) works best as more than simply visceral…even in an existential sort of way, speaking as it does of the relations betwixt men and women writ large. In a crude way it does get to the heart of one the basic pivots in the relationship between men and women, inside and outside of marriage. A pivot point that is pretty much lost on us in any developed way these days. Rightly cultivated, that sentiment veritably creates civilization. Wrongly abused and misunderstood, that sentiment is just another part of the great unraveling…