Outlets selling “nude” lady golf tees, molded without a head or arms, have been criticized over claims they promote “violence against women.”
The “Nudie Tees”, which cost around £3 for a pack of six, are sold in sports shops across the UK and for about $8.00 at online retailer Amazon.
But shopper Stephanie Davies-Arai, 55, took “offense” when she saw them for sale in her local “Intersport” shop in Lewes, Sussex claiming: “They are really horrible. I was actually upset. It’s basically saying that knocking the head off a woman is a joke, something that is really funny.”
Now suddenly the “Nudie Tees” have caught the attention of several publications on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as several “women’s rights and sexual-assault victims’ groups,” decrying the products as not only “sexist,” but disrespectful and ignorant of the “violent” way women are treated throughout the world.
Do women “honestly” think the makers of these “Nudie Tees” were thinking that when you put a golf ball on the tee it looks like you’re “hitting a woman’s head off!”
How stupid is that! These are just golf tees shaped like a “nude” women that a guy can have “fun” with and startle his “buddies” with when they play. It’s that simple.
Apparently people can’t simply say, “Hey those golf tees are shaped like nude women. That’s clever.” Nope. That would be “too much to ask” and way too simple.
They have to “lose” their minds and look at a “deeper” meaning that isn’t even there just so they can throw a fit about “violence against women.”
A spokesman for Intersport in Lewes explained why the store is not going to remove them. “We have stocked these for about ten years as a novelty item which is bought by a lot of wives for their husbands at Christmas time.”
“A regular customer took offense to them 18 months ago so we took them off prominent display and put them behind some balls. They used to sell really well but we don’t sell many now because of where we moved them to.”
“We are not going to take them off display. We’ve only had two complaints in ten years. If we had regular complaints or the company withdrew them, then we would respond.”
Dunlop continues to sell the product on their website and is yet to comment on the reports critical of the product.
“Add a little humor to your game or, why not get these as a fun present for someone who takes the sport a little too seriously,” Dunlop says of the product on its website.
I love the “response” from the manufacturer. They’ve been making those tees for 10 years and now, “for some reason in 2014,” people have a problem with them?
Gimmie a break. They’re a “hilarious” novelty. Nothing more, nothing less.
British activist launches campaign against Dunlop Sports’ novelty nudie tees.
