Obsessive compulsive disorder

[CrimsonReaper]

Tis the season for offending customers. Target is being criticized on social media for a Christmas sweater it currently sells in its stores.

The red garment bears the slogan “OCD: Obsessive Christmas Disorder,” and while it may be meant in good fun, some people aren’t amused by the retail giant apparently making light of obsessive compulsive disorder, and took to social media to say so.

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it seems that people get offended by anything these days. :lol

 

[Erza Scarlet]

I have OCD and I find this very stupid lol it's just a joke 0.-

 

[Shuuya]

Wow, is there anything people won't get butthurt at? lol

 

[Bimbonium]

Can't really decide if I'm to be offended by it, I guess if I knew someone with OCD or knew a lot about OCD I'd be offended, but right now I don't see why people are taking offence

 

[CrimsonReaper]

I have OCD and I find this very stupid lol it's just a joke 0.-

yeah but obviously people will try to find anything to complain about!

 

[FreakensteinAG]

Oh give me a break, you knee-jerk reactionists. We've done this before! We've made this exact product but with different words in the past! And every one of you were fine with it. The only difference is there was no social media to yammer off your actual obsessive compulsion to react toward trivial matters.

 

[Jazzy Stardust]

People really aren't that sensitive, they just want to make money deep down.

Or actually maybe they are, can't speak for everyone.

 

[Angelic.]

at least it says christmas and not attention holiday disorder

 

[Punk Hazard]

I have OCD and I find this very stupid lol it's just a joke 0.-

This just in: You being okay with something=/=that thing being okay. Being a joke=/=excusable.

There are countless people who suffer from OCD, emphasis on suffer. It's not really something you should joke about. I get if it's two people chatting in private, but something public like this? It's not at all the place or the right subject.

 

[Pyro NB]

Sigh merica these days

 

[NineSNS]

I'm not shocked to see the play on the abbreviation, and even if it's tasteless, it is clever.

However, a company that big selling it? I thought Target was smarter than that.

 

[FreakensteinAG]

This just in: You being okay with something=/=that thing being okay. Being a joke=/=excusable.

There are countless people who suffer from OCD, emphasis on suffer. It's not really something you should joke about. I get if it's two people chatting in private, but something public like this? It's not at all the place or the right subject.

I get you're trying to be brave for those who can't speak for themselves, but how about you let the people who have the ability to decide what is and isn't okay do just that and refrain from speaking for other people, mmk? A shirt that says "Obsessive Christmas Disorder" doesn't even remotely register what can be considered "harmful, offensive, crude, etc." It seems to me too many people are weak-willed.

 

[Jack Spicer]

I ****ing hate people. They ruin everything. Oversensitive ****s. EVERYTHING is complained about nowadays. Yes, having a disorder or something sucks, but come on. Really? Reminds me of people on Tumblr just complaining and complaining and complaining. Cry some more over nothing you bunch of babies.

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Jacko is sick of it!
PS: That shirt is awesome.

 

[Punk Hazard]

I get you're trying to be brave for those who can't speak for themselves, but how about you let the people who have the ability to decide what is and isn't okay do just that and refrain from speaking for other people, mmk? A shirt that says "Obsessive Christmas Disorder" doesn't even remotely register what can be considered "harmful, offensive, crude, etc." It seems to me too many people are weak-willed.

I don't have to have OCD to understand that people who literally suffer from the disorder would find fault in this. I know what this disorder can cause for people, and I know that seeing it be made into a joke can be angering. I don't need to have it to emphasize and make a judgement call. I've never been raped, but I know making a T-shirt with an acronym for rape can upset others.

I'm not saying it IS inherently offensive, or that I'm offended, but you can't tell people who find a problem with it to stop talking because you don't like hearing complaining. There is a legit problem to be found in it.

 

[FreakensteinAG]

I don't have to have OCD to understand that people who literally suffer from the disorder would find fault in this. I know what this disorder can cause for people, and I know that seeing it be made into a joke can be angering. I don't need to have it to emphasize and make a judgement call. I've never been raped, but I know making a T-shirt with an acronym for rape can upset others.

Right off the bat, you've made a False Equivalence Fallacy, a big no-no. Rape does not equal OCD. One is a genetic disorder, one is the victim of a crime. One is something that many people can overcome and even joke about amongst themselves (aka me), and another is something that few recover from. To compare rape to OCD is a shameful act, and I hope you realize that yourself.

Secondly, you are still speaking for people who have this disorder, without knowing how many do not care about this situation, without realizing many people shrug off their compulsions, without realizing many even joke about it themselves (aka me). You're behaving like this knight who goes around protecting all these people who don't need protected. Do you have such little expectations of people to think they would actually be hurt by a damn shirt?

 

[Punk Hazard]

Right off the bat, you've made a False Equivalence Fallacy, a big no-no. Rape does not equal OCD. One is a genetic disorder, one is the victim of a crime. One is something that many people can overcome and even joke about amongst themselves (aka me), and another is something that few recover from. To compare rape to OCD is a shameful act, and I hope you realize that yourself.

Secondly, you are still speaking for people who have this disorder, without knowing how many do not care about this situation, without realizing many people shrug off their compulsions, without realizing many even joke about it themselves (aka me). You're behaving like this knight who goes around protecting all these people who don't need protected. Do you have such little expectations of people to think they would actually be hurt by a damn shirt?

Equal to OCD? No. It is, however, equivalent in the sense of this analogy. I don't need to personally experience something to understand the weight of it. The bolded is you literally comparing OCD and rape in order to determine one is more extreme than the other. **** outta my face with this nonsense.

So because there are those that don't care, no one should care? The people that do care should be ignored? Makes sense.

I'm not trying to protect anyone. I'm saying that it's not exactly surprising that people whose lives are made a living hell by something would be upset that it's being made into a joke. I am NOT saying the shirt is inherently offensive, I am NOT saying the shirt should be taken down. I am saying that I personally feel jokes about OCD should be avoided on something this public because it CAN upset people who have the disorder. I am NOT saying everyone who sees this will be hurt, and I am NOT saying that everyone with a negative reaction to this will be as extreme as becoming upset. What I am saying is, you want the shirt to exist and be sold? Okay, that's fair. But you can't tell people who find fault with it be quiet and groan and moan that there are people who aren't cool with it because you are, especially when there is a legitimate reason someone can find fault with it.

 

[Demonic.]

I'll buy this for my fat best friend.

 

[Angelic.]

I'll buy this for my fat best friend.

dont lie. its fo yo self buy me an ugly christmas sweater too XD

 

[Erza Scarlet]

This just in: You being okay with something=/=that thing being okay. Being a joke=/=excusable.

There are countless people who suffer from OCD, emphasis on suffer. It's not really something you should joke about. I get if it's two people chatting in private, but something public like this? It's not at all the place or the right subject.

I suffer from a lot of things, and in fact I can still take a joke, a joke is a joke to me, however if the person was being serious and wanted to be rude and try to verbally abuse me then yes I agree it's wrong, but people do need to learn to take a joke.

 

[Natsu Shazneel]

Lmfao This sounds like a kid made it.