Artists vs. "Old Navy Exec"

So-called artists are resorting to twitter to express their disdain for a couple of Old Navy toddler shirts encouraging the tiny ones to become astronauts, the next President or some other occupation besides an artist. The horror. Personally, I don't find it offensive and I consider myself artistically inclined. Here's the items that are causing butt-hurt all over the hearts of "artists":

Here's a comeback from an "artist" -

It's a silly comeback because it's clearly a backlash towards "the suits" and it shows the pathetic caricature that "artists" have when thinking about "the suits." Also, I was expecting a more interesting font since this was a response by a professional artist. It's awfully plain looking.

"I'm an artist. I don't cheat people out of money and I know what it mean to be 'human'!"

The shirts were deemed offensive and disrespectful. The anger become so great that Old Navy hase decided to discontinue them.

A similar incident, a day after Memorial Day, when PacSun displayed a shirt with an upside down American flag. Now this I fully understand the outrage for - it's highly idiotic to not display the flag in its correct manner aka not upside down, especially during a week devoted to remembering deceased military men/women. It's like putting the a crucifix upside down after Christmas. I understand hanging the American flag incorrectly, with the stars to the left instead of the right, as an honest mistake but an upside down flag? Yea, I bet an "artist" though it would be a cool/edgy thing to do.

The outrage that these shirts inspired makes me recall the outrage displayed on Yale's campus over an email response saying that students should be deemed responsible for their own costume awareness. Let's just say people had a meltdown and it was embarrassing to those that aren't psychologically and emotionally infantile.

Even better, the outrage is very much the "cousin" of the irritation showed when Marco Rubio said that the USA needed more welders and less philosophers. Again, I am more inclined towards the arts and I studied philosophy during my undergraduate years. I was not offended and I perfectly understood what Rubio was trying to convey. Apparently other degree holders of the liberal arts did not interpret what I interpreted as they delved into self-importance, which isn't too surprising given the modern health of the disciplines that make up the humanities and social sciences.

What I want to know if an Old Navy executive approved of this t-shirt. I want to know because if it wasn't an MBA executive, it's just a blind attack on corporate by mushy brained "artists." An "artist" probably made this print so in a way it could be self-deprecating. Many artists will probably say, "Why would one of ours do such a thing?" Why  not? What replaced the word artist were occupations that are looked upon as highly impressive in today's society. An astronaut. A country's president. Even becoming a company's executive is impressive since it takes years to reach that level.

Yes, the world needs artists. The world also needs astronauts and presidents. The world needs welders as well as philosophers.

As stated before, I'm not offended by these t-shirts and if I were an Old Navy executive deciding whether or not to pull these shirts, I wouldn't. I'd say, "These weren't meant to be offensive. Deal with it. Your occupation isn't sacred and no one's taking your occupation away from you. We're trying to inspire, so stop being a toddler."