Why are you making fun of someone's appearance with your logo change

The ridiculous thing about this is Charles Windsor isn't even being mocked. The famous ears mean the logo is instantly recognisable as him, that's all. No judgement is attached to it. Everyone on this thread crying about bullying has immediately felt there's something wrong with them when there isn't. Unconscious bias and hypocrisy is rampant, especially given the number of threads on here attacking other divisive political and roysl figures for the way they look that are still standing.

Mean. Take it down

Awful - who thought this was a good idea - old school bullies?

Satire is dead, killed off by squealing accusations of bullying of the most privileged

Satire is meant to be funny isn't it? I don't think it's a bad thing that laughing at aspects of someone's appearance of which they can't help and with which they have been mocked, ridiculed and laughed at for years is something people now call out as not funny. Generally MN is very fair regarding criticism of the royals (well unless it's Meghan and Harry but that's another thread I suspect); people can talk about their criticisms of the monarchy or his actions which is good and free speech and all that- but yes people should call out people being cruel.

Can I take the piss out of your kids looks? Since you're ok with it being done to others

How is it funny?

I've seen 3 threads filling up fast on this in the last 5 minutes! I agree it's pathetic and shaming someone for something they can't help.

The idea that it's satire is frankly ridiculous. Satire makes a point about a persons bad or ridiculous behaviour, this is just a pair of ears. It's just plain mocking someone, there's no satire.

You're very brave.

rule of thumb, when there's a lot of snarly posts on one thread, better just to swerve it.

100% this.

Come on @mnhq, get rid of this. It's terrible!

I don't care. It's funny. Well done MNHQ.

Wow. It’s awful and I’m shocked that you’d think it is ok. Definitely not “in the spirit of the site”.

I think if you want to see what the “spirit of the site” is you need look no further than the AIBU topic. A topic which was deliberately created in order to give posters a platform to bully others, and something which has only got worse since it came into being.

MN has long since stopped being a site by parents for parents. It’s a site which encourages ablism, racism, homophobia and transphobia because that’s what the tabloids pay mn to see, and to publish.

Indeed. Take the piss out of the leaky pen incident all you like. The people’s oath malarkey? Have at it. The wealth, the privilege, the banality - all up for grabs. But this isn’t satire, it’s just taking the piss out of one physical feature. Anymore than it was satire when pissed up men screamed insults at me in the street because of my hair colour.

I like the logo. I Like to think KC has a GSOH about his ears. Nothing to be ashamed of so why would he mind ?

@Alltheprettyseahorses go on then, explain....

Some people don’t seem to understand the meaning of the word hypocrisy. MNHQ is all “be kind” and “spirit of the site” until it comes to taking a swipe at the physical features of someone they don’t like, it seems - and a few users seem to think that’s fine.

@Alltheprettyseahorses you’ve not really grasped the meaning of satire, have you. Nice hyperbolic post though, you must feel better for getting the venom out.

I’m really surprised at this logo. The crown is fine, the ears aren’t. I haven’t heard anyone mock the ears since I was little, I don’t even notice them now. It’s a dated, horrible approach. Either do something like the crown or nothing at all. Really badly judged and to quote mn back st mn ‘not in the spirit of the site’.

It’s not funny in the slightest. Who thought that was appropriate?

Nowhere near as nasty as you obviously.

Well said. It's not big and it's not clever to just go HAHA EARS!