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Is this offensive?

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Besswess88 · 29/11/2020 21:46

Please be kind I have never been here defies so it’s quite scary Grin

So I posted this in AIBU and I was voted 80% YABU (full thread is here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4092075-Do-you-find-this-offensive )

One poster suggested I post it here and see what the opinion is.

Someone randomly posted this in a community group I am in and I said I found it offensive and misogynistic and it was removed but the poster started a lot of other threads about it and I was basically called a “snowflake” 🙄 and I left the group.

To me yes maybe it is”petty” but this subtle stuff feeds the bigger stuff and perpetuates it.

I speak as a woman who has had large breasts from a young age and always received unwanted attention from males (much older ones when on my teens).

Is it offensive and does it perpetuate misogyny?

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NiceGerbil · 29/11/2020 22:14

I'm on your other thread op!

Really taken aback by it especially the suggestion that you have breast reduction surgery if you don't like men staring at/ commenting on your tits Confused

I didn't actually know what offensive meant. I thought it meant erm. If someone farts you might say that smells really offensive.

Seems it means upset by? Which I do think is why you got a lot of the responses you did. Although so many women lining up to say, it's funny, can't you take s joke, no one can say anything any more etc which was really... Surprising.

Anyway yeah it's shit and to me trivialises sexual assault. She's looking the other way and he's about to grab her tits.

The fact men grab in real life makes it not very funny at all.

Anyway I said most of what I thought on the other thread Smile

Don't be scared though! To post here I mean.

nocoolnamesleft · 29/11/2020 22:10

Hmmm. I'd probably go for distasteful, rather than offensive.

BaronessWrongCrowd · 29/11/2020 21:57

It's poor humour and very much of its time but no, I don't find it offensive.

legallybland · 29/11/2020 21:54

Naff. The person who shared it is probably a bit behind the times and thinks Les Dawson is hilarious.

Offensive? No.

FairytaleofBykerGrove · 29/11/2020 21:50

Tasteless and not very funny. Not offensive to me. Men like breasts and some people call breasts melons. Ho ho ho. Whatever.