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To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this

758 replies

welliments · 01/02/2018 17:57

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...

To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this
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SheGotBetteDavisEyes · 02/02/2018 00:08

It must be exhausting being so offended all the time

Confused. Making a choice about something you disagree with is very different to being offended by it.

BlindYeo · 02/02/2018 00:08

Do it = sex! I was an eighties teenager. Definitely wouldn't let my child wear this!

This thread has given me an ear worm - Cole Porter's Let's Do It

Birds do it
Bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it
Let's...fall in love.

DonkeyOil · 02/02/2018 00:12

It is like the Frankie Goes to Hollywood song with the lyrics "Relax don't do it..." that I always thought was about sucking a chewit

?? Grin

IMightMentionGriddlebone · 02/02/2018 00:17

It must be exhausting being so offended all the time

Nah. Trying to learn Italian was exhausting. Picking up the mechanics of bad jokes just came naturally to me. I can also sing Bohemian Rhapsody all the way through. Again, no effort needed.

DreamyMcDreamy · 02/02/2018 00:18

welliments. Clearly many MNers are too young to get the slogan —and seem to be wilfully ignoring the fact that many others will think the same as we did.

Why do you have to be "young" to not get the slogan? I never said I didn't get it once it was pointed out.
I just said not everybody automatically sees children and sex.
I was around in the 80s too.

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welliments · 02/02/2018 00:20

I don’t find having high moral and ethical standards tiring. It makes me who I am - strong, interesting, compassionate and happy.

I find explaining them to others bloody knackering.

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hellokittymania · 02/02/2018 00:25

I'm very innocent in my thinking and you shouldnt worry. I would have thought dancers dance with attitude

hellokittymania · 02/02/2018 00:27

Isnt there a charity volunteer site called do it.org

Frequency · 02/02/2018 00:33

It only means sex to those aged between 10 and 12 surely?

To any other age group it's taken in context.

This jumper for example; Dancers dance with attitude.

Nike; Just do Sport.

The volunteer charity; DoVolunteering.org

just5morepeas · 02/02/2018 00:34

I can't believe all the people who don't get that it's sexual innuendo. And then arguing with all the people who've come and pointed out the obvious. I can only assume it's a not wanting to admit when you're very clearly wrong type thing.

And then to accuse people of having a dirty mind or connecting children with sex. Ugh.

Karen85 · 02/02/2018 00:37

Are we running out of things to be offended by?

DreamyMcDreamy · 02/02/2018 00:42

I can't believe all the people who don't get that it's sexual innuendo

I do get it's innuendo! I said only after you really have to have it pointed out that you can see a sex aspect, clearly others automatically see a sex aspect. Even on kids tops.

DreamyMcDreamy · 02/02/2018 00:44

And then to accuse people of having a dirty mind or connecting children with sex. Ugh.

But they did, though - they're the ones straight away seeing sex messages on kids jumpers.

SheGotBetteDavisEyes · 02/02/2018 00:55

they're the ones straight away seeing sex messages on kids jumpers

After all this, that's seriously what you're taking from the entire debate?

You think people who have taken the time to explain the context of the problem and why that particular message is likely to be interpreted in an inappropriate way, are just 'seeing sex messages on kids tops'?

Waddlelikeapenguin · 02/02/2018 00:57

Yuck that's not suitable for children to wear.
Many years ago I worked for a professional ballerina & she and her company friends wore lots of things like this!

nocoolnamesleft · 02/02/2018 01:11

It's fine for an adult to wear. But not for a child. Because it's about sex. And whoever thought it was a good idea to put a slogan about sex on children's clothing is a nasty fuckwit.

DontLetMeBeMisunderstood · 02/02/2018 01:12

I was also around in the 80s and get the reference straightaway and would consider it a poor choice of slogan for children's wear. Reminds me of the time my cousin (in her mid teens) was given a t shirt by her mum that had on the front a cartoon hedgehog climbing on top of a hair brush with 'everyone can make a mistake' written beneath - she was old enough to get the joke (and was mortified) but a younger child would've just thought it was a silly, cute hedgehog - I wouldn't let them wear it just because they didn't get the joke though.

On the subject of ear worms and 'it', some may remember the smutfest that was 'Mr Telephone Man' by Meri Wilson:

Oliversmumsarmy · 02/02/2018 01:19

So when someone volunteers to do something and says they can do it I should automatically assume they are referring to sex

IMightMentionGriddlebone · 02/02/2018 01:23

they're the ones straight away seeing sex messages on kids jumpers

I'm seeing the intentional joke on a humorous sweatshirt. However, the right hand didn't know what the left was doing, and the store that sells them, sells them in a whole range of sizes, from age 6 up, instead of limiting them to adult sizes only.

Am I supposed to only recognise the joke format if I read it on a big shirt, but not a little one?

CandyYumYum · 02/02/2018 02:48

they're the ones straight away seeing sex messages on kids jumpers.

Because
There's
A
Sex
Message
On
The
Kids'
Jumper

ragged · 02/02/2018 03:05

I can't hear the "do it" as sexual because the phrase is so widespread & used in all contexts, for decades now it's been used in a zillion contexts. The word and the world has moved on. The meaning has changed and it IS now non-specific.

It's ok for language to change and for us to let it change.

CandyYumYum · 02/02/2018 03:10

The meaning has changed and it IS now non-specific.

Rubbish.

CandyYumYum · 02/02/2018 03:12

Let your daughter wear this jumper if you like but don't fool yourself into thinking people won't see the logo and think it's a weird choice for a 6 year old.

SadieHH · 02/02/2018 03:19

Never ever in all my 12 years here has a thread made me want to whack my head on the desk so violently as this thread. You don’t have to look for something that is so blindingly obvious. Most people will get the very unfunny joke. My kid doesn’t wear panto jokes on their jumper out and about. Big difference.

But... Relax was about anal sex?? I knew it was about sex but...

Pluckedpencil · 02/02/2018 03:43

I'm familiar with the 80s connotation, and saw it when OP said she was offended. But given that dance is both a noun and a verb, I think it is barely a double entendre really! "Surfers do it standing up" is totally different to "surfers do it with attitude", right? One is clearly double entendre, the other just sounds like a rip curl t-shirt. Your natural inclination when you see a noun formed from a verb is to think of that verb, hence why so many are not offended. If it said "dancers do it in heels" or "dancers do it en pointe" I'd agree.