Another T-shirt thread but I don't like it

[Arachnophobic]

www.thehut.com/10088404.html

AIBU?

Well it's stupid and I wouldn't put DD in it.

What's the reason you don't like it?

Of course YANBU.

Sickly pink, babies don't date and footballers are arseholes.

I don't like it either, but meh.

At least it's a good warning to stay away from the kind of person that would put that on their child.

Are you being unreasonable not to like it? I don't like it either. Am I being unreasonable? I don't care - I don't like it. What are you going to do if somebody says YABU? Change your opinion? Sorry, but stupid question.

Didn't know if I was being too sensitive lyin. what's up? Got out the wrong side today?

I don't like it tidy because it's indicative of an era where it seems that a lot of girls aspire to becoming WAGS/pop stars/famous rather than getting proper jobs. And this T Shirt seems to endorse that. And to make it available to babies I just think is inappropriate and slightly gross.

I did actualy, Arachnophobic, I have a headache but... what I'm asking you is whether you really don't like it or not? When I don't like something, I don't like it and whether one or a hundred people tells me I'm unreasonable not to like it wouldn't change my views.

Women are never 'too sensitive' over their likes and dislikes in my view, they feel the way they do for good reasons.

It`s a bit naff (for want of a better word), but not worth getting upset about

No you're not being unreasonable to not like it.

I don't like cabbage

I don't care if that does make me unreasonable.

I think it's silly rather than offensive.

Well, it isn't quite the RAPE IS OK message which the Massed Bands of this forum drove off the web last month, is it?

Grips are cheap this week.

It's easy to say the T-shirt is dumb and pretty 'meh' in itself.

But, the fact that this kind of thing even gets made and sold and people are so indifferent to it, is a sign that feminism sill has a long way to go.

Stuff like this is really insidious.

I understand why you've had some of the responses you've had on here OP.

On the one hand, it's a shit T-shirt and only people with no taste would buy it anyway. So forget about it.

On the other hand, I don't think you're being over sensitive to find it A: icky that a baby's t-shirt would talk about dating (gross) and B: that it reinforces the idea that girls don't need to worry about achieving in their own right because you just marry someone rich, right?

I can see where you're coming from.

Yama - I read your comment that babies don't date before I looked at the link, and had an instant image in my mind of someone saying, 'That baby is just soo passe'.

I have only sons, but cannot imagine why anyone would have such low expectations for their daughter that they'd put her in that t-shirt.

^No you're not being unreasonable to not like it.

I don't like cabbage

I don't care if that does make me unreasonable.^

This really made me laugh Worra

Horrible, horrible, horrible.

SDT Yes, babies will never go out of fashion.

If it were being sold by a mainstream commercial retailer then I might concede you have a point. The fact that its being sold via what appears to be a small-fry dodgy reseller site suggests that this isn't a prominent volume retailer and as such is not acting as some sort of widespread conduit of inappropriate messages to the masses.

I design girls t-shirts and over the years have worked for most of the big retailers. There are very strict guidelines as to what is and isn't age-appropriate within designs. You'd be amazed at what we are limited to. No doubt some know-it-all sage consumer will pipe up with evidence of "Do My Tits Look Big in This?" tees being sold in her local Primark children's section, while I can't speak for all retailers, on the whole you will find that this isn't pandemic, and is very unlikely to become thus.

The Hut are not small fry vivi! Otherwise I take your point.

Logos on T-shirts are silly, witty or offensive but I don't think you're meant to assume that they are serious or that the few people who wear them really think like that.