To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this

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Merchandise from a major dance show at the excel centre in London next month. They sell these, and tshirts from age 6 up.

I’m going to have to explain to a 10 year old why she can’t have a jumper...

Great Mumsnet minds think alike

I’m always telling 10yo to ‘drop the attitude’

Does the child's leg not get tired, llan?

I didn't know I was so old. As Griddlebone says above it is like reading Japanese if you know the language. I am gobsmacked so many people don't get it (or are pretending they don't) - I would rather someone filled me in if I was about to dress a child in this.

Ah, just checked it out with next door neighbour's 17 year old he got all serious and awkward telling me why it wasn't suitable and what it meant until I put him out of his misery. I don't believe you all. You know what it means and are being deliberately obtuse.

Sorry about the Wham earworm.

Could someone link to Victoria Wood singing "Let's do it" as my phone won't let me. as a brilliant example of "it" meaning sex.

Mumsnetters do it without noticing?

No explanation would be needed as a child would just assume 'it' meant dance

But the vast majority of adults looking at it would know it referred to sex - because these x do it y jokes were part of the culture for a decade that we lived through. They were everywhere, on almost every t shirt, zillions of car stickers, every bloody thing you can put a slogan on. You don't have to have your mind in the gutter to spot it. It's a recognised, overused, obvious double entendre that has formed a strong and enduring route through our synapses. (Scientists here will have spotted I'm not a scientist).

I couldn't see what was wrong with the slogan at all, and kept reading the thread until some posters started explaining and giving examples of the other jokes, and someone linked to an explanation of what "attitude" meant in ballet terms.

I could see the innuendo straight away in the other phrases like "do it with balls", "do it in the mud", "do it standing up", "do it with fingers", "do it across the table", etc, because those are words that I can easily see associated with sex and sexual positions. Whereas "attitude" didn't mean anything else in particular to me in relation to sex, other than the normal meaning of attitude.

I thought this would be because English is my second language, and I wasn't living in an English speaking country during the 80s. But, interestingly, I showed the picture of the pink top to DH (who is a native English speaker), and he had no idea either what was wrong with the phrase "Dancers do it with attitude".

I think that now that I have learned about the double meaning or innuendo of the phrase, I wouldn't buy that top for a child. But I could have easily bought it by mistake before I read this thread.

It's a recognised, overused, obvious double entendre

It's along the lines of:

"Ooh, that's a big one!"
"Don't get many of those to the pound...."
"She asked me for (insert whatever here) and I gave her one!"

.....ie pretty obvious, not very sophisticated, but not something terribly offensive. Not something you'd want emblazoned on your 6 year old either, though....

The incomparable Victoria....

Sorry natalia I hadn’t see your other posts.
Mumsnetters do it without rtft!

"....spank me on the bottom with my Woman's Weekly"

Mumsnetters do it with pursed lips

Mumsnetters do it clutching a pearl necklace

I’m thrilled that this thread has managed to invoke the comedy spirits of both Rik Mayall and Victoria Wood. Love em both.

Now, if only bluemirror and daydreamer would come back and answer the question I could go to bed.

yaNbu

nottheduchess

Mumsnetters do it with a diagram.

Mumsnetters do it in Aldi.

Thanks all you lot, I’m bored of waiting for dreamymcdreamer and bluemirror to let us know if as they are so unoffended by the jumper if they’d let their kids wear it...they seem to have gone quiet.

Other than being called a perv and a saddo, it’s been interesting to hear everyone’s viewpoints.

We’ll go and enjoy the show but I’m know I’ll have a face like a cats arse for most of it.

Wow. Only read the first five pages. What a generational chasm!

Dooo It! So 80s. There was only ever one 'It'.

OP - Are you a snowflake?

banging I think "snowflakes" are the ones who don't understand the OP's point.

I love the way 'offence' has to come into it. The hoodie does not offend me but that doesn't mean you'd let a 6 year old wear it.

I blame all this real names stuff. Kevin and Kylie no longer do it but they have intercourse . Or maybe they just Snapchat and avoid all the mess.

But then I went to see Victoria Wood live and was the youngest person by about 10 years at the time

Mumsnetters do it with a diagram

I've heard a lot of dance teachers speak to their students about putting a bit of attitude into their dance (especially freestyle, street dance etc).

It's only a sexual innuendo if you want it to be, allow it to be and think of it as being that. Words, phrases, sentences CAN all have double meanings but it's our own way of thinking that allows it to be.

In this case, YOU are allowing a slogan to be just that.

For me, I'd even allow my 3 year old to wear it. She dances. She has some attitude. She puts a bit into it when she dances.

It's called acting, expression, feeling ... effort.

By all means, if you want your dirty little mind to run away with itself don't buy it for your daughter. But IMO it'd absolutely fine.