'Rape' t-shirt at SM Store draws outrage online

(UPDATED September 23, 10:54 a.m.) A photo of a t-shirt with a message promoting rape from the boys' section of the SM Store has drawn outrage online.

 

Writer and poet Karen Kunawicz posted the photo of the shirt that said, "It's Not Rape, It's A Snuggle With A Struggle."

 

She added the caption: "Really SM Department Store? In the boy's section?

 

"SM--the same mall that has the daily angelus and refused to show Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd" in the cinemas? 

 

"Boys listen to Tita Karen--if a girl says NO and pushes you away, just err on the side of caution, she likely means NO. And go watch 'Sweeney Todd.'

 

"WTF, SM."

 

 

After posting the photo at 9:34 p.m., the post has been shared more than 800 times as of 11:16 p.m. from netizens outraged by the message.

 

Kunawicz told GMA News that she took the photo at the third floor of the SM Store at SM Megamall.

 

A comment left on her post by director Robbie Dinglasan said that the shirt was part of the collection of the radio show "Boys' Night Out," whose hosts were signed as endorsers by SM earlier this year. He added that the shirt was already in the process of being pulled.

 

But Sam Gogna, one of the hosts of the radio show, denied that the shirt is part of the BNO collection. — JST, GMA News