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To think this is inappropriate?

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ThoseArentSpiritFingers · 12/12/2011 15:40

Someone on the dreaded Facebook has piste a pic of their DS (about 2yrs old) lying on her bed with the caption 'bet no-one else has had such a sexy guy lying on their bed!'

Isn't it a bit inappropriate to be calling your son sexy, nt just a sexy as in cute way, but in reference to lying on a bed, which could be described as a sexual position?

Or am I being a prude?

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SantasStrapon · 12/12/2011 15:42

YUK :(

But at 'piste'. DYAC.

Hassledge · 12/12/2011 15:43

No - not being a prude. It's just plain yuck and then more yuck. Sexy has never meant cute in the context of a 2 year old being cute.

KateFrothers · 12/12/2011 15:45

It is yuk. Is she foreign? I ask because a Dutch friend of mine used to often use sexy in the wrong context. Including about our children. I honestly don't think she realised.

Annpan88 · 12/12/2011 15:45

The poster of said picture probably didn't give it much thought, may realise later

aldiwhore · 12/12/2011 15:47

My 8 year old put some trousers on the other day (he does this every day of course, but these were new) and said "Hey Mum I look quite sexy huh?" - I found THAT uncomfortable, and asked him to think of another word and he came out with 'hunky' - at which point I PMSL... it was cute and innocent.

I know that when mums refer to their kids as sexy they don't mean it in an adult way, or in any relation to actual sex, they seem to have given it its own meaning... but I loathe it with a passion.

The WHOLE comment is just cringeworthy isn't it?

MixedBerries · 12/12/2011 15:47

Ewwwwww. It's as horrible as little 3 yr old girls wearing playboy gear. Very wrong IMO.

NatashaBee · 12/12/2011 15:48

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tigermoll · 12/12/2011 15:50

It is wildly inappropriate.

However, sometimes people can be so blinkered about their kids, - especially on fb. If I were you, I would respond with something like:

I'll say! I'd bang the a*se off that! Can I babysit next week?

And see if that makes the poster rethink her caption.

ViviPrudolf · 12/12/2011 15:52

Wasn't there a thread recently that revealed a trend among The Plebeians to describe cute things as 'sexy'?

Doesn't make it any less inappropriate. OP YABU for having such a plebeian as a FB associate.

MixedBerries · 12/12/2011 15:54

Ha ha Tigermoll! Careful with that. Might get you ejected from FB and put on the paedo register. Actually, so might the woman in the OP post. [not said in all seriousness in case of misunderstanding my tone].

Chundle · 12/12/2011 15:55

I know someone who refers to their 6 year old dd as ' my little bitch' disgusting coming from her mother I think. Yanbu

Flisspaps · 12/12/2011 15:59

MIL and SIL have both been asked on several occasions not to refer to DD as 'sexy'. They think DH and I are being funny about it but we just don't like it and think it's inappropriate to call a small child 'sexy'.

To be fair, I think they have both stopped now :)

ViviPrudolf · 12/12/2011 16:06

I call the 'Prudog "Little Bitch" Blush

But in my defence, she is

shandyssandy · 12/12/2011 16:12

what does "piste" mean? is it a mistake i.e. pasted? i know i'm probably being a bit fick, but i don't get it

I agree 100% on the general gist of the thread though, calling small children something that alludes to sexual allure is just odd. i've never heard anyone say it out loud IRL, but i have heard people mention it on MN before - very strange!

SuePurblybiltbyElves · 12/12/2011 16:14

I've heard it. Makes me vom.

pigletmania · 12/12/2011 16:18

It is disgusting, I would put a comment under it that a 2 year old is not sexy.

MissMogwi · 12/12/2011 16:20

YANBU I can't stand people calling kids sexy. Horrible.

SantasStrapon · 12/12/2011 16:26

piste = posted. I think.

squeakytoy · 12/12/2011 16:28

sexy = cute in the language of many people these days..

the meaning of the word has changed and evolved..

ViviPrudolf · 12/12/2011 16:31

Many civilised, articulate, intelligent people, squeaky?

I'm all for dynamism in linguistics but this one is decidedly tasteless, no?

HereKittyKitty · 12/12/2011 16:33

In that context it is not so much the "sexy" as the "lying on their bed" bit of it that makes my skin crawl. YUCK!

SuePurblybiltbyElves · 12/12/2011 16:34

So this linguistic evolution business generally seems to involve reducing words to three characters if possible and finding the most baffling alternative use for everyday words (thinking of 'sick', 'gay' to mean stupid and this 'sexy'). Oh good.

TroublesomeEx · 12/12/2011 16:34

Nasty.

'sexy' is not a word that can ever mean cute, surely? Especially not in the context of little children!!

TroublesomeEx · 12/12/2011 16:37

squeaky - what people??!!!!!!

I know that when I was younger teenage girls (inc me) used to refer to lads we fancied at school as 'cute' because we didn't mean sexy.

How on earth could sexy, a word that has sex in it and refers to sex, be about anything other than sex?!

I can think of a list of people, men and women, that I think are sexy and none of them are children Hmm

YaMaYaMa · 12/12/2011 16:37

Grin at Tigermoll's suggestion!

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