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Welshpoppyyellow · 2025-05-08T20:09:03+00:00

To sell this T shirt in age 5-6? Interested in other people's thoughts.

Loub1987 · 08/05/2025 21:58

Don’t know, I call my girls honey bunnys. It’s not the playboy logo. So I can’t really see the issue.

Pickingmyselfup · 08/05/2025 21:58

To be fair the play boy bunny did immediately come into my head but really it is just rabbit ears and a pet name so I think it's fine.

Not something I would buy but I have boys and I don't call them honey bunny (and they are old enough to be horrified by it!)

I've seen some absolutely awful slogans for kids online before so this is nothing.

SipandClean · 08/05/2025 21:58

I think this is more of a you problem.

JLou08 · 08/05/2025 21:58

What's wrong with Honey Bunny? I've only ever heard this term used for a child, it's just an innocent term like cheeky monkey, sweetie pie etc

AubernFable · 08/05/2025 21:57

MindfulAndDemure · 08/05/2025 21:27

The bunny ears with one bent over is very similar to the playboy logo. Their models were called playboy bunnies, so I can see why it could be considered distasteful.

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This reminded me of my playboy themed, hot pink and black, bedroom as a 7-12 year old. 🫢 On brand for me as I did end up liking girls but probably highly inappropriate in hindsight.

IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta · 08/05/2025 21:57

notacooldad · 08/05/2025 21:53

Apart from the obvious grimness, why is a single individual aspiring to be both a wife AND a girlfriend?!
They're not. WAG is a term meaning wives and girlfriends and was used widely in the 2006 Euros where the women turned up to support their partners and socialise together.

Yes, of course I know that. But it's a t-shirt (presumably) intended to be worn by only one person.

"Here are the WAGs" - makes sense.

"She is/wants to be a WAG" - makes no sense!

BlondeCircus · 08/05/2025 21:56

When I worked in a children’s retail shop many years ago, I served a mother with a child of maybe 7/8 wearing a T-shirt that said too many boys too little time I was horrified

sandrapinchedmysandwich · 08/05/2025 21:54

FFS. Is this all you have to worry about?

notacooldad · 08/05/2025 21:53

Apart from the obvious grimness, why is a single individual aspiring to be both a wife AND a girlfriend?!
They're not. WAG is a term meaning wives and girlfriends and was used widely in the 2006 Euros where the women turned up to support their partners and socialise together.

Shitmonger · 08/05/2025 21:52

It’s just an Easter shirt. My mum sometimes called me “honey bunny” when I was a child. It’s just cutesy.

What on earth is a “bunny girl?”

Scarydinosaurs · 08/05/2025 21:52

I didn’t “see” it straight away.

I wonder if in ten years no one would? Will just fade out of significance.

Good riddance.

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Welshpoppyyellow · 08/05/2025 21:51

(to poster asking if I'm going to complain)

If most people had the same reaction as me I might have considered it, but not all do, poll currently at 50/50, so it's clearly not as clear cut as I thought. All the people I asked in 'real life' had same reaction as me.

I'm using AIBU to sense check my own reaction, while getting inevitably flamed by some in the process 🤣

Maybe I'm getting old, but yes, I remember lots of girls having Playboy bags and pencil cases at school so maybe those associations are just closer to the surface than for others.

Definitely not trying to demonize or sexualise bunnies (Easter or otherwise) please don't call the RSPCA.

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SwanOfThoseThings · 08/05/2025 21:48

Great t shirt for a small child 😃

MoominMai · 08/05/2025 21:48

Welshpoppyyellow · 08/05/2025 21:37

Interesting mix so far!

I instantly saw the association to "bunny girls" when I saw it.

I also googled the playboy logo as wondered if that was what was triggering the association and agree they're not the same, but as a PP has said, it's the bunny ears.

Appreciate bunnies are obviously a common thing for kids, but it's the fact it's just the ears, which are a common feature in sexually provocative costumes.

Just my reaction though!

I think it’s the association between the bunny ears and the corresponding wording of ‘honey’ that will def lead some to make that association so because I’ve personally now seen it I can’t unsee it so I wouldn’t buy it for my niece.

However, I wouldn’t be shocked to see it on other children though because as someone else said there is worse out there for sure!

Walkden · 08/05/2025 21:47

"Appreciate bunnies are obviously a common thing for kids"

The Easter bunny far more so then the playboy ones....

BlondiePortz · 08/05/2025 21:47

SkibbityBap · 08/05/2025 21:20

Isn't it just an easter/spring tshirt?

Am I missing something?

Yeah I dont get it it looks cheap but apart from that i don't get it

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Welshpoppyyellow · 08/05/2025 21:46

SpidersAreShitheads · 08/05/2025 21:38

I don't really like this style of T-shirts so it's not something I'd have bought but I can't see that it's offensive.

I had a feeling that the OP or others might have been linking it to the Playboy bunny but I don't get that at all. The ears are a completely different shape, and even the shade of pink is very clearly different.

I think the fact it's been released around Easter is an even stronger argument against it being the Playboy bunny, unless everything with bunny ears is now a reference to Playboy? If so, the entire section at Morrisons this year needs to have a word with itself..... 😂

Also, "honey bunny" was a sweet term of endearment that parents (usually mums) would call their children when I was growing up. You don't hear it as often these days, but I get that around Easter, it's an obvious slogan to use.

Honestly, there's plenty of girl's clothing to get vexed about - I just don't think this is it.

That's interesting, like someone has said upthread, I've only really heard "honey bunny" as a romantic partner nickname, which probably added to my reaction

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GotToWearShades · 08/05/2025 21:45

I didn't instantly get the reference, it doesn't really look the same.

I don't know my brands so bear with me on this, but isn't there now a sporty logo with 3 figures in a triangle shape seated that rips off Charlie's Angels or James Bond or some such ??

WhatdoesitmeanKeith · 08/05/2025 21:44

Are you going to complain @Welshpoppyyellow? What will you say?

I can’t see anything offensive about it personally.

Netamount · 08/05/2025 21:44

I wouldn’t buy it but I’ve seen far, far worse.

JudgeBread · 08/05/2025 21:44

Lots of people sexualising the Easter Bunny and small children here while simultaneously pearl clutching about something completely benign. Impressive.

Whoarethoseguys · 08/05/2025 21:41

I don't think it's anything like the Playboy logo and didn't associate it with it at all.
I don't particularly like it but I don't think it's terrible.

PansyPottering · 08/05/2025 21:40

There are countless rabbit themed children’s things. Peter Rabbit et al isn’t sexually provocative.

We had an Easter bonnet parade at school and there were bunny ears as far as the eye can see.

Tulipsontoast · 08/05/2025 21:39

I’m also seeing pulp fiction.

I wouldn’t buy clothes with writing on.