Because my only response to this shirt is "How's THAT working out for you?" (said in the most sarcastic possible tone).
(It's a t-shirt for preteen girls, claiming they are "too pretty" to do homework, so they get their brother to do it for them. Yes, I know it's humor, but...I don't find it all that funny*. Just like I don't find the whole "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" line of girl's t-shirts funny.)
Or, maybe, I'll quote another syndicated-television guru, Judge Judy (who I like a darn sight better than Dr. Phil): "Beauty fades but stupid is forever."
(FOR-EVER....FOR-EVER....FOR-EVER....)
(*the fact that I don't find it funny may have something to do with having been a college prof for a dozen years now, and a TA for nearly as many years before that, and having seen more than my share of arguments from students as to why they shouldn't "have" to do some instructional thing. No one's ever claimed to be too attractive to do, say, a lab write-up, but I've heard excuses that have come close.)
And yes, I know they discontinued it after people complained, but, golly...doesn't anyone remember the furor over "Math is hard!" Barbie? I wonder who greenlighted that shirt and if he still has a job...
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