Re: Why is this saying offensive?

makena · ‎10-29-2016

@151949 wrote:
On threads discussing the TSV some people are saying they find the saying "happy wife , happy life" offensive. OK - I don't get what is offensive about that.

Some people will find any reason to be offended.

Bri36 · ‎02-20-2017

I don't think anyone said they were offended by the saying. They just didn't like it. Big difference

SharkE · ‎08-19-2010

@tansy wrote:

@SharkE wrote:
In all fairness I read the other day about this woman writing to Ann Landers whoever it is now in the paper. She was asking how she could get her husband to take more then 2 baths a month ! she said "he really stinks down there". I shudder to think what she is going thru.

Mine is better about showering although he could be better, but, then, we women think you should shower 40 times a day. LOL

I console myself with always somebody worse off. Mine makes good money and I live well, so, I can shut my pie hole and be thankful I'm not like some poor women I see at the stores. I'm drawing his SS too. My sister in law's husband forbade her from drawing off of him because he thought it would lessen his benefit and his first wife drawed off of him he wasn't gonna let her draw too , so, the poor woman had to call from another house and draw off of her own tiny earnings and gets like 400 a month. That wouldn't pay my Q bill LOL
Ai-yi. Did you tell that man that his benefit remains the same no matter how many ex-wives (married at least 10 years) are drawing from his SS history? I'm surprised SS would not have explained that when this woman sneaked off to apply.

She didn't tell anybody till after the fact. Her daughter should had told her she's got some sense she's a nurse. SS don't care LOL that much more for them. Poor woman is in 70's and still babysitting for other people for extra income. He won't give her squat.

Think she's scared of him to tell U the truth. He's got big ol pension and his big SS, plus, does jobs for others that he don't have to declare, but, makes her pay for groceries and maintain her own car, etc. He's got the house in his kids name too. Shame.

missy1 · ‎03-10-2010

Seems to me only teens wear these type of shirts (with words) or the People of Walmart.

GenXmuse · ‎05-15-2016

I get offended by offensive people.

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

I do not find it offensive. I do find it true!

QueenDanceALot · ‎04-18-2013

It's too bad that the company didn't have anyone working for them who could come up with better things to put on the shirts than the lame sayings they came up with.

SAD!

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

@straykatz wrote:
I won't wear a tshirt with a saying on it. The print usually lays across an area that I want to draw the least attention to.

Yes, I think we should let our chests speak for themselves. They need no words!!!!!

VanSleepy · ‎10-05-2010

@Moonchilde wrote:
@VanSleepy wrote:
I'm not one of the people who said it was offensive, but I think it's odd to be on a woman's shirt because I always thought it was something men said. As in if the wife isn't happy, she will make everyone else miserable.

Is THIS what that other thread was about? OMG, srsly?

It is possible to be offended by anything, I suppose. *Eyeroll*

It's never been meant as a commandment, it's a light-hearted joke. Are women offended by "If Mama Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy?" Probably not, because that saying is used by women (including on shirts and various home items) all the time. It means the same thing.

Ohhhhh....people think a man came up with it. That's why. "I can call myself whatever I want, but no one else better do it."

I really don't understand why you're replying to my post in that way. I did not say it was offensive. I simply said I thought it was weird to be on a woman's shirt.

SaRina · ‎04-17-2015

@makena wrote:
@151949 wrote:
On threads discussing the TSV some people are saying they find the saying "happy wife , happy life" offensive. OK - I don't get what is offensive about that.
Some people will find any reason to be offended.

Everyone is offended by something at some time.... including you. What I may find offensive, you may not.... and vice versa. Judging other people for what they find offensive is being morally superior as another poster alluded to.