Urban Outfitters Stops Selling 'Depression' T-Shirt After Backlash
To Urban Outfitters, it was a t-shirt with a logo on it, but to many livid customers, it was an offensive piece of clothing boasting the name of an oft-misunderstood and stigmatized illness.
The article of attire in question, a white cutoff t-shirt with the word “Depression” plastered all over it, has been pulled from the retailer’s website after numerous outraged people took to social media to complain. Here are a few tweets that were lobbed in Urban Outfitters’ direction:
i dealt with depression and anorexia/bulimia for 5 years, this is so offensive #DepressionIsntAFashionStatement
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