In 1985 Wal-Mart pulled a "Someday A Woman Will Be President" t-shirt because it was offensive

Nick Kapur spotted this gem in an old newspaper: "A Wal-Mart store pulled a popular T-shirt proclaiming Someday a woman will be president off its shelves, saying it was offensive to some shoppers."

It was determined the T-shirt was offensive to some people and so the decision was made to pull it from the sales floor, Jane Bockholt said. She refused to reveal the nature of the customers complaint.

Ann Moliver Ruben, the 70-year-old psychologist who designed the shirt and sold them to the store, said the retailers response means that promoting females as leaders is still a very threatening concept in this country.

A buyer at the company reportedly said that the shirt "goes against Wal-Mart's family values," but it didn't respond to press inquiries other than to confirm a customer complaint about the shirt and their removal from the store in which they were being sold. At the time, the United Kingdom's elected Prime Minister was a woman, Israel had long ago elected Golda Meir as their own premier, and Benazir Bhutto was two years from being elected in Pakistan.

After the story hit the papers, though, the company admitted its mistake.

"We made a mistake," Jay Allen, a Wal-Mart spokesman, told the Associated Press. "In this case, we overreacted."

The shirt appears to pop up on Ebay and Etsy often.