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Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:41 am EST

Affliction continues to screw up, this time by offending Catholics

By Maggie Hendricks

Affliction suffered more public relations damage last week, though this time it didn't have anything to do with fighters or executives who liked to punch pregnant women. This time, it was due to a shirt that they were selling at Nordstrom's.

This shirt, in addition to being ugly, is rather offensive to Catholics. Judy Carbo, a woman who happened to be shopping at Nordstrom, said so, and the shirt was pulled from the racks. What Carbo did not do was truly explain why the shirt was offensive, and why Affliction should put a little more thought into their designs. This shirt resembles a painting of Virgin Mary holding Jesus, but Mary is depicted as a skeleton. Catholics believe that Mary did not die, and was assumed, body and all, into heaven. The idea of Mary as a skeleton is in direct contrast to our beliefs.

One badly designed, offensive shirt would not be noticed in the grand scheme of things if it weren't part of a series of missteps by the company. When MMA is fighting for legitimacy just a few hours away in New York, having Affliction and their questionable reputation interlaced with MMA does not help.

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  1. fightchica
    1. Posted by fightchica Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:53 pm EDT

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    These T-shirts are designed by guys with tattoo and the genre of death is the name of the game. These are fight shirts and pushing the evelope is part of it. The Catholic belief of Mary's ascension was not specfically targetted. And I think Ms. Carbo is overreacting.
  2. prettty girl
    2. Posted by prettty girl Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:00 pm EDT

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    I gotta disagree....The shirt suks...i'm down for pushin the envelope this is...fu&ed up...There should be blood drippin from her hands...
  3. chano
    3. Posted by chano Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:02 pm EDT

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    In the Word's of Dana White.
    Damn T-Shirt Boy!
  4. HAHA
    4. Posted by HAHA Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:49 pm EDT

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    i am into clothin design and i dont know why they would depict Mary as a skeleton
    i also cant view the pick from my computer screen at work
    but oh well they lost one design
    my mother doesnt like all the affliction and blak label skulls and death stuff either
    i guess it is jus somethin the older generation wont accept
  5. fightchica
    5. Posted by fightchica Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:53 pm EDT

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    I didn't say the shirt didn't suck I don't particularly like it I just commented on the article and the kind of artists behind it's creation there droppinbombs
  6. prettty girl
    6. Posted by prettty girl Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:00 pm EDT

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    My bad.I should have said.. "The shirt suks...i'm down for pushin the envelope this is...fu&ed up...There should be blood drippin from her hands"...
  7. fightchica
    7. Posted by fightchica Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:53 pm EDT

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    's all good knew what you meant
  8. BearDown
    8. Posted by BearDown Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:23 pm EDT

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    Whoever thinks that shirt is "fashionable" should have his head slapped off his shoulders. Can they ever come up with an origional design instead of stealing other stuff and "cut and paste" a skull here and there. I'm proud to say I don't own any of this garbage, over-priced, "fad" wear for wanna be's.
  9. Steven W
    9. Posted by Steven W Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:47 pm EDT

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    i can't see the shirt either, and i don't doubt that it sucks....but seriously people, who the hell cares about a t-shirt? what happened to free speech? this country has taken a disgusting turn down sensitivity street in the past decade and a half or so.
    i really don't care what some ignorant catholic woman thinks, whether i am religious or not it's just a frickin t-shirt. how stupid does that sound, someone else has depicted my religion incorrectly...SO LET'S BURN IT! why don't we all just gather round the flaming pile of books and t-shirts and warm our hands on our country's hypocricy, damn nation of [profane] with their blinders on, step into line ladies before big brother calls you out
  10. fightchica
    10. Posted by fightchica Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:53 pm EDT

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    Amen brother Steve
  11. Anonymous
    11. Posted by Anonymous Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:14 pm EDT

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    I find people nailed to wood offensive!
  12. John V
    12. Posted by John V Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:26 pm EDT

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    I'm a Catholic and am not offended by the T-shirt. If it offends you that's one thing. But you're not spokeswoman for all of us, so please try to not speak as if you were.
  13. Nutcracker
    13. Posted by Nutcracker Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:22 pm EDT

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    So if I wear the Tshirt do I get a big dose of Catholic guilt??? Then I can go to confessional and renounce Affliction once and for all...
    Actually any one that wears that crap should be shot on sight... That trend is more than dead.... Goth was cool around 20 years ago.....
  14. Steven W
    14. Posted by Steven W Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:47 pm EDT

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    haha, boxers can be funny too
  15. BearDown
    15. Posted by BearDown Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:23 pm EDT

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    They might as well steal the old Iron Maiden album covers and turn those into a T-Shirts.
  16. Steven W
    16. Posted by Steven W Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:47 pm EDT

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    and fightchica, i'll join the club...i love you, for the sole purpose that you're a woman who seems to know mma. no matter how fat you are or what all the other guys say, i still love ya hun
  17. chano
    17. Posted by chano Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:02 pm EDT

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    Ok great we are now having a holy war!
    Next blog please..........and quick!
  18. HAHA
    18. Posted by HAHA Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:08 pm EDT

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    That trend is more than dead.... Goth was cool around 20 years ago.....
  19. kruser
    19. Posted by kruser Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:54 pm EDT

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    who cares its a freakin t shirt!
  20. Nutcracker
    20. Posted by Nutcracker Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:22 pm EDT

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    Got Virgins?? I only need like 72 of em.....
  21. me
    21. Posted by me Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:55 pm EDT

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    I hate religion, we are all rotting meat-sacks, get over it.
  22. Nutcracker
    22. Posted by Nutcracker Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:22 pm EDT

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    me..... Atheists Unite!!!!!
  23. me
    23. Posted by me Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:55 pm EDT

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    Yessir!!!!!
  24. Ican2
    24. Posted by Ican2 Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:39 pm EDT

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    Not sure why this blog is recieving even this ammount of attention...Not to bag on maggie...The fashion blogs pretty much suck..Who Gives a flying fu%%...
  25. Nutcracker
    25. Posted by Nutcracker Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:22 pm EDT

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    Ican.. i think it is more the religious aspect than the fashion.. you are not the sharpest knife in the drawer are you??

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