SJW alert - Sometimes It's OK to Throw Rocks at Girls

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In an effort to sell more jewelry, Spicer Greene Jewelers in Asheville, N.C., put up a billboard just off of Interstate 240, depicted several gems along with the words: “Sometimes, it’s OK to throw rocks at girls.”

A local teacher, Shannon Page, complained about the ad on a West Asheville Facebook group, saying the billboard’s wordplay was lost on her second-graders, who were “very confused and offended” by it. “Not cool,” Page wrote. “Normalizing and finding humor in the, ‘He hit you because he likes you’ mentality that we feed to children is not OK. … Also, children will not see the humor in this billboard. All they will see is, ‘It’s OK to throw rocks at girls.’” Though Page’s post triggered the controversy, others quickly piled on.

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“This billboard is just one in a series of billboards that uses sexism as humor,” one Facebook user posting under the name Laura Hope-Gill wrote. “Of course, sexism escalates to misogyny that then moves into full-blown domestic violence.” She also added in a later post, “Social Justice is the most beautiful jewel.”

Other Asheville residents have planned a protest outside of Spicer Greene Jewelers, also calling for local politicians and women’s groups to publicly denounce the billboard, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported.

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