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'Wife Beater' Shirts Spark Outcry

By Oliver Yates Libaw
April 25


A Web site selling "Wife Beater" logo T-shirts and offering a special discount to convicted abusers is vowing to stay in business, despite outrage from anti-domestic violence groups.

James Doolin, a 30-year-old entrepreneur from Texas, created his site several months ago, offering men's and women's tank tops imprinted with the words "Wife Beater."

"Wife Beater" is a popular slang reference to ribbed white cotton sleeveless undershirts, like the one worn by Marlon Brando when he played Stanley Kowalski in the movie A Streetcar Named Desire.

Doolin says he dreamed up the idea for his products after watching the television show Cops, which has often shown footage of men being arrested on domestic violence charges, who happen to be wearing the sleeveless Ts.

His wife-beaters Web site also has a host of other features that have drawn the ire of anti-domestic violence groups. The order form lets buyers customize the shirts with beer, motor oil and other stains.

It also offers shirts at half price for "convicted wife beaters" able to document their offense and conviction. 

Full price for a regular "Wife Beater" shirt is $20.








Source:  http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93475&page=1#.UZr5v7U3uyA

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