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Just another Japanese t-shirt with weird/bad English, I thought. But it turns out this is a popular brand with young people like my students. And there's a lot of Twitter talk about the meaning of the phrase like:
question authority, fight the power, etc. So maybe this is kinda deep...
And a Google search of the phrase found an interesting art project:
The project “Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert” attempts to draw inspiration from scientific research and explores the normality and abnormality of human and snail sexual activity. In this project, artist Kuang-Yi Ku collaborates with Dr. Joris M. Koene, assistant professor of animal ecology at the VU Amsterdam. Through the scientist’s research on the hermaphroditism of snails, the artist builds a series of art installation, transforming various sexual activities of human and snail into corresponding visual narratives. Through the juxtaposition of the two living creatures, the installations allow the viewers to reflect on the significance of “normality” and “abnormality.”
Source:
https://www.kukuangyi.com/perverted-norm-normal-pervert.html
See also:
https://yutzuhuang.com/Perverted-Norm-Normal-Pervert
So you never know where a Japanese t-shirt will take you...
