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To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this

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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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IMightMentionGriddlebone · 02/02/2018 15:58

Actually, I can see why the second meaning isn't that clear, and how someone could just take the slogan to refer to dancing.

If that is your baseline, fair enough. What I don't see is why anyone would think any other less innocent interpretation was irrelevant. Surely knowledge of an alternative interpretation should have a bearing on their decision to buy/not buy the sweatshirt, after they've found out?

woollyheart · 02/02/2018 16:15

It is clearly a slogan in a well known pattern that has two well understood meanings by most adults over a certain age. Even though you can tell your child it has only the more innocent meaning, you are going have to explain at some point when they have more knowing children or old men laughing and leering at them.

WildWindsBlowing · 02/02/2018 16:16

BlueMirror Thu 01-Feb-18 23:27:51
The innuendo on this jumper isn't for children. 6 yos aren't aware of memes from the 80's!!!!!*

Who wants an aleady vulnerable little child turned into a sex object, with their very innocence over the meaning of the shirt they are wearing, part of the thrill.

It is repulsive pimping. If that shirt is made by NIke then people should stop buying anything from them imo.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 02/02/2018 16:26

Dreamy, your thinking is very literal.

WildWindsBlowing · 02/02/2018 16:26

I see I misunderstood: it's not a Nike shirt.
What ever it is, it's tacky and nasty, don't let your DD have one.

CharlotteLV · 02/02/2018 17:24

I agree with you - this is a sex pun. Pretty harmless, but a bit weird on the front of a 6-year-old.

lottiegarbanzo · 02/02/2018 17:28

This discussion reminds of one I had with myself, as a child, when I could be very rule-bound and self-righteous, about zebra crossings.

I had read the Highway Code and knew that, if I had my foot on the crossing, cars were obliged to stop, that I may cross. I felt very annoyed if they didn't. I remember thinking 'well, I'm just going to cross anyway and they will be wrong so very wrong for running me over. I may be squished but I shall be vindicated.'

Just as I could not control the wrong behaviour of those drivers, the more stubborn posters on this thread cannot control the puerile, sex-joke-inspired thoughts of others.

But they're darn well going to put their daughter in that sweatshirt anyway.

Like me with the zebra crossing, this will create a protective force-field around their child, defending her from any very bad wrongness directed her way. Oh....

Whatwouldagoodmotherdo · 02/02/2018 17:39

OP you are not wrong to find this inappropriate. It is clearly a take on the old jokes that take an aspect of a job/hobby and then fill in the phrase "X do it with [insert aspect] "
I have no idea if you are being trolled on here or people really are so used to the double entendre they don't notice that it is a reference to sex. Please don't doubt yourself - all the 'knowing' slogans on clothes are pretty grim even when the wearer knows what they are doing. When the wearer is a young child and has no clue what they are parading it is pretty vile I think. And I think parents have an obligation to think before putting their kids in them for a laugh.

EllenMP · 02/02/2018 17:39

YANBU. That is certainly a double entendre, referencing sexual style. I would not let my child wear it either. Wrong and weird that they sell that hoodie to little girls. This is not a case of you inferring something inappropriate. This is a case of the manufacturer implying something inappropriate.

tash7779 · 02/02/2018 17:43

Oh get a grip.

Missingstreetlife · 02/02/2018 17:44

More sexualisation of children. It's wrong.
Tell her why, it's an opportunity to talk about what's appropriate, then let her choose something more fitted to her age

DreamyMcDreamy · 02/02/2018 17:47

What tash7779 says.

Mormont · 02/02/2018 17:50

I've just asked my teenage son (straight out, no discussion about the thread) what he would think if he saw that slogan and he smirked and said: "Dancers shag with attitude!"

Thisisnotreallymyname · 02/02/2018 17:53

I can't see any problem with it at all x

TarragonChicken · 02/02/2018 17:55

Aged 10 I would definitely have recognised this as a double entendre. At primary school we sniggered at the Nike slogan.

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welliments · 02/02/2018 17:55

What almost everyone else on the thread said once they knew what it meant

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welliments · 02/02/2018 17:56

So it’s not just us oldies hey mormont...

Even more reason not to put my daughter in it!

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MorganKitten · 02/02/2018 18:10

As someone who has had a dance teacher shout 'once more with feeling and attitude!' its not that big of a deal

AnotherQuoll · 02/02/2018 18:13

Suggestions are that some of us are "looking very hard to be offended". To clarify: I'm not 'offended' by the slogan; I'm protective of the girl. I could not let any daughter of mine be in the vulnerable position of wearing a double entendre slogan (that she's too young to understand) on her chest, in public, and risk her being made uncomfortable or worse, by creeps.

etcher70 · 02/02/2018 18:15

I just hate slogan jumpers - why sign your child up to a public statement that they can't possibly endorse. (equally hate 'Cheeky Monkey', 'mummy's little princess' etc. etc)
Whatever it says I'm with you.

marhav999 · 02/02/2018 18:18

Of course it is a double entendre. Those posters denying are either naive or deliberately obtuse. While funny at the time (I was a GP who apparently did it in 6 minutes) it is monumentally inappropriate as a slogan for a child’s jumper where it may provoke an explanatory comment from another more informed child and seems to be another example of sexualising children. For goodness sake let’s protect them. Under no circumstances would my child wear this slogan. I had the same opinion of fcuk wear. I may be considered old fashioned, but I know OP that you and I are right.

SulphurMan · 02/02/2018 18:20

I can't decide who is more stupid. The person(s) who decided to actually make this top available in child sizes or the the people on this forum think it's an innocent phrase.

Saying someone has a dirty mind for seeing and understanding an extremely obvious and very bad taste joke is quite disgusting in itself. Put that in context with an offer to be able to dress a child in such a slogan and this produces a new kind of naivety.

I don't speak from some highbrow attitude, but from heartbreak and despair of a family affected by sexual abuse.

It's not that this slogan would invite an attitude from any right-minded person that a child should be viewed sexually, of course that is ridiculous. But being on the other side of the devastation has taught me that a child's innocence cannot be replaced and we should not undervalue it.

Shimmershimmerandshine · 02/02/2018 18:24

I actually lol'd at 'GPs do it in 6 minutes' that's the only funny one I've ever seen.

MaggieWaggie41 · 02/02/2018 18:25

I don't understand, perhaps sort out your personal issues before posting here

Shimmershimmerandshine · 02/02/2018 18:26

Hahaha seriously? It's time for a new thread GrinHmm