But, Are They Toxic?

I was once walking along a busy street downtown with my 2 kids, and we were wearing matching 6-colour rainbow spiral t-shirts, of my own making, of course, and I ran into a person I knew from a mothering group I had participated in a few years before. She admired the t-shirts, but then asked, "But, are they toxic?"

I saw red for just a moment ("Yes, they are toxic, but I let my own children wear them, because I'm a terrible mom and I don't care if my children wear t-shirts with toxic chemicals infused into them, and not only that, but I make them for infants and other people's children to wear because I want to make money and I don't care if the clothing poisons other people's children as well as my own!").

I'm still kind of mad about this question, although I was only asked the once. But "chemicals" get a bad rap in our world! Our bodies are made of chemicals! Plenty of stuff all around us is made of chemicals! Let's not use it as a synonym for "bad stuff!"

Rant over.