Shock over sale of Amazon's 'keep calm and rape' T-shirts
ONLINE retailer Amazon continued to list clothes from a controversial US firm yesterday, despite a row over a misogynist T-shirt printed with the message: "Keep calm and rape a lot."
ONLINE retailer Amazon continued to list clothes from a controversial US firm yesterday, despite a row over a misogynist T-shirt printed with the message: \"Keep calm and rape a lot.\"
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Yet, despite the tasteless messages, early on Saturday, thousands of T-shirts from the same company with slogans like "keep calm and hit her" were still available to buy online.
Among the 8425 T-shirts that were still being listed on Amazon at noon yesterday were those with messages such as "keep calm and knife her" and "keep calm and grope a lot".
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