Another father of the year (with language!)

[LillFilly]

While the store, being on private property, has every right to regulate what speech is and is not permitted on the premises, personally I think your store policy (which I understand is not written by you personally) is going overboard. Is it inappropriate to wear such clothing in public, especially with children? Yes, most people would consider it so. But does the store absolutely need to enforce its opinions on its customers? Not really. If other people's children see the shirt, their parents can explain to them why it's inappropriate and why such clothing is not allowed in their house. It's not really the store's responsibility to play morality police.

Now if certain body parts are hanging out in plain sight...that's a different story.

It's actually the mall-wide policy. Since the mall is private property, like one's home, it's at our discretion. If someone were in your house and did, said or wore something offensive, you'd be within your right to ask them to leave. Same here. I suppose it could also be for their safety. If it was something especially offensive, it could very well start a fight. We're not forcing our opinions on anyone, nor trying to squelch their fashion sense or any message they may be trying to make, but the truth is, we're trying to keep everyone in the mall happy, and if that means making the person wearing the shirt unhappy, that's the choice we have to make; there's many other venues they can their clothing of choice at. And he did have a choice. Flip the shirt, change or leave. He chose to leave.

Many places have dress codes, and being private property that is their right; restaurants, clubs, schools, etc. We've only had maybe 3-issues with clothing in the past 2-years. Strangely enough, I think every time it has been a shirt saying the very same phrase I was posting about!