To be outraged that the 'david and goliath' shop in bluewater is

[seeker]

Selling children's t shirts saying 'mum
says I'm on the short bus because I'm special' and 'I keep telling you I'm not a retard'
what do you think- should I fire bomb the place or just write to the md. Or both?

There's no need for that at all. Just nasty. Who would put their child in one?

WTF???!

What's the 'short bus'?

Those slogans are truly vile, but I suppose what's really outrageous is that there must be (???) a market for this stuff.

At the end of the day, the slogans are shocking and offensive, and there will always be an element who think that 'sticking 2 fingers up at pc' or whatever is funny or cool.

Fire bombing may be very slightly over the top, but otherwise YANBU

Short bus is an american thing. We have the big yellow school buses that take kids to school, the special needs kids would take a short bus. You guys dont have specific school buses so it doesnt really make any sense here anyway

A swift kick to the manager to think to display the T-shirts should do it.

I can't believe that someone even unpacking the shirts could think the use of the word 'retard'was appropriate or remotely funny....

I would speak to the manager and take it further

Why is firebombing over the top? They aren't baby sizes, just to clarify- my 9 year old found one his size and was horrified- but no smaller than that.

I have just looked on their website and didn't see the retard one, but I was really when I saw a couple of TODDLER shirts, one said "are you my daddy" and the other had "broken condom" written on it.....Seriously WTF ?????

'Retard' is also very American. Did you go in and complain? You might wish to speak to tjeanagement company too- I can't imagine they'll be pleased that disablist clothing is being sold in their shopping centre.

I very rarely get angry about t-shirts that adults wear because part of me thinks it is a good way of identifying wankers.

Butthe idea that a company is making these for children is breathtaking. Good God , how would my DD feel if one of her peers wore one of these on mufti day?

Unbelievable

Ew. How...amusing And of course if anyone with a disability/child with a disability sees these they will absolutely piss themselves laughing. They won't feel upset, or humiliated, or mocked. Not at all

I can't think of anyone I know that would wear them, can't sell many. My DS1 used to have 'I'm with stupid' tshirt and that's as far as it would go. Not funny or clever. YANBU.

I just looked at the website and couldn't see the t-shirts, but wad viewing on the iPhone, so may have missed it.

Seeker, how are you going to take this forward?

I'm only asking because if you're going to firebomb I may have to find somewhere else to take dd for her shoes!

Seriously? Who on Earth would put their DC in tshirts with any of these slogans?!

YANBU.

I have a couple of D&G T-shirts as does DD, but we wont be wearing them anymore!

I have written to them. Not something I would normally do but these are childrens t-shirts.
I am shocked and considered myself unshockable.

It's disgusting how disablism doesn't appear to be a crime.

I agree, totally not acceptable.

Very tasteless and wankerish, really. Bleugh.

I have just gone onto their website and complained, asking if they thought that their sales for those products would outweigh the complaints they would get from parents/carers of disabled family members.

I have a disabled child and although some of their stuff is amusing, I would not purchase any of their stuff out of principle now.

I like D&G usually but WTF were they thinking of [shocked]

On a lighter note when Gymboree first opened up I found a lovely pale blue girls tshirt with a fairy waving a wand on the front...

... sadly the word underneath was...

.... POOF!

YADNBU. And what sort of person would wear that?

How did you contact them Pag? Via their website?