Twitter users erupted in anger Saturday after discovering shirts listed on Amazon with a slogan that appeared to promote rape and violence against women.
The shirt read "Keep Calm and Rape On" and was available on Amazon's UK website. The company that prints the shirts, U.S.-based Solid Gold Bomb, removed the listing after it was notified of the slogan.
The company also removed a shirt with the slogan "Keep Calm and Hit Her."
Solid Gold Bomb apologized, saying the slogans were computer-generated and the company did not deliberately create them.
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Founder Michael Fowler posted a message on the company's website saying he was "extremely sorry" for the issue.
"We simply do not produce poor humor or offensive products," Fowler wrote. "As a father, husband, brother and son, I would never promote such product in our company and it was clear to see this when looking across the millions of T-shirts that we offer or can produce on demand. Had these items ever sold, we would have immediately pulled the series and are doing so on our own and Amazon channels worldwide."
TVNL Comment: Makes one wonder how many of these shirts were sold, worldwide. This is not a 'mistake' - it is a reflection of the trivialization of violence against women.
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