The Advocate column on Dilligaf, a T-shirt store in Lake George, could not have been more timely ("T-shirt sales 'fight' adds up to war of words," July 11).
I was just talking to another mom about the prevalence of people walking around with the F-word boldly written across the front of their T-shirts. I am neither uptight nor conservative, but I find the social acceptance of adding the F-word to a statement on a T-shirt and then walking around as though you are making some sort of constitutional statement questionable and worrisome.
If among adult company you want to use the F-word, I couldn't care less. But if you walk around an amusement park among young children wearing a shirt with it, I take serious issue. Like all of our constitutional rights, they extend to the tip of your nose. Once your actions infringe upon another, they are no longer your rights. Wearing a T-shirt with a cuss word on it is a violation of the constitutional rights of anyone who finds it offensive. I look forward to the legal debate concerning this issue and imagine it will soon hit a courtroom near us.
Robin Larkin
Charlton