to think the slogan on this girls top from H&M is creepy

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I am probably over thinking it! Just seems an odd phrase for a kids tshirt.

Agree, actually

I agree. Awful

YANBU, totally inappropriate imo.

Urgh that's horrible

H&m is a French(?) company so could be something lost in translation.

But still can't really see how it's creepy but happy to be enlightened. Just seems free spirit/wild hippy child kinda thing to me. Children's clothes slogans are not to be taken so literally.

I can imagine what people object to but I think it's okay.

Children's clothes slogans are not to be taken so literally

Let's hope the children reading them don't.

H&M is a Swedish company,

But they are not the only ones guilty of this, loads of high street shops put pointless slogans of their tops, this one is a bottom of the barrel

no I think children in this regard are a bit more aware than that. not everything is to be read literally. they know this.

objecting to this just adds to the 'fearful environment' we seem keen to be creating for our little ones. IF a child was reading this I'm pretty sure they'd be saying "don't be daft".

There's also one that says 'I don't need you. I have wifi'

I agree with mouldy peach, I don't think it's inappropriate, it just doesn't make sense so I wonder if something has been lost in translation

I'd be really worried if my child read a slogan on a t-shirt and took it as something to be acted on. I think most kids barely register what is written on their clothes and just wear them, my dd has a sweater with a rabbit on and 'nature centre' written on it next to it (from h&m as it happens!) I just covered it and asked her what it says, she had no idea and is 6 and obsessed with reading everything aloud. I personally wouldn't worry and def don't think it's worth getting hysterical about.

Asda's 'boys/girls are best' bubble bath, on the other hand, grrrr.

I don't like slogan/ character stuff anyway but I always wonder why people buy these tops. The writing makes no sense- you can pay for normal tops instead. Seems so weird

It's a bit weird but I've seen worse. I don't know why there needs to be slogans at all, they're almost always odd or horrible. Is there ever a slogan on a boy's shirt that doesn't say little monster or tearaway or the like.

I don't think its creepy. In what sense?

Creepy how?

I've seen much worse in Sweden. They do seem to have a strange relationship with the English language. On the one hand they are all very good at it, better than some English people I know. But at the same time they fail to grasp the impact of some of the words they use.

I saw a girl of about 8 walking down the street with her parents once. She was wearing a pink sparkly t-shirt with 'fucking slag' printed on the front. I looked like this >>

If I had seen that in H&M it wouldn't have occurred to me to find anything creepy about it.

It's not 'creepy'.

It doesn't say 'hey older man lets run away and have sex in a seedy hotel'. That would be creepy.

There's also one that says 'I don't need you. I have wifi'

My DD would get that tattooed on her forehead if she could.

Because a child running away is a parents worst nightmare. Not something to be made light of on a childs tshirt.

Not creepy at all.

Stupid but not creepy.

"I don't need you, I have WIFI"
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Well to me, this is a witty slogan, when kids are on the internet they are lost in their own online world, this is pointing this out in a somewhat humorous way, what's shocking about it?